---
name: html-ppt-zhangzara-cobalt-grid
description: |
  Cobalt Grid — Electric cobalt italic serifs on a graph-paper canvas, anchored by stair-stepped pixel-glitch decorations and slim hairline rules. Anything that should feel like a quietly serious design / research bulletin, art publication, or curated trend report.
triggers:
  - "cobalt-grid"
  - "zhangzara-cobalt-grid"
  - "Cobalt Grid"
  - "editorial"
  - "design-research"
  - "considered"
  - "literary"
  - "design trend or research report"
  - "studio annual or seasonal bulletin"
  - "html deck"
  - "html slides"
  - "zhangzara"
od:
  mode: deck
  scenario: marketing
  upstream: "https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/cobalt-grid"
  upstream_license: MIT
  preview:
    type: html
    entry: example.html
  design_system:
    requires: false
  speaker_notes: false
  animations: false
---

# Cobalt Grid

> Electric cobalt italic serifs on a graph-paper canvas, anchored by stair-stepped pixel-glitch decorations and slim hairline rules.

A single self-contained HTML deck — typography, palette, decorative system,
and slide vocabulary are all tuned together. Mixing layouts across templates
breaks the system; stay inside this one.

## At a glance

- **Scheme:** light
- **Formality:** high
- **Density:** medium
- **Slides in demo:** 8

## Best for

Anything that should feel like a quietly serious design / research bulletin, art publication, or curated trend report. Strong for studio annuals, agency capabilities decks, design-research publications, architecture / art / academic decks, and any deck wanting one strict accent colour and a printed-ledger calmness rather than corporate polish.

## Avoid for

Decks that need warmth, multi-colour energy, or a casual / playful voice — the strict cobalt + cream + grid palette is intentionally austere.

## Workflow

1. **Clone `example.html`** into the user's workspace as the working file.
2. **Replace placeholder content** with the user's real headlines, body copy,
   numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when
   swapping image placeholders.
3. **Preserve the design system.** Never substitute fonts, recolor the palette,
   restructure the layout grid, or strip decorative elements (corner brackets,
   paper grain, geometric shapes, illustrated SVGs). They are part of the
   identity.
4. **Adjust deck length by duplicating layouts.** If the user has more content
   than the demo holds, duplicate an existing slide of the most appropriate
   layout. If less, drop slides from the bottom. Update page-number labels.
5. **Designing missing layouts:** if a slide needs a layout the template
   doesn't have, design it from scratch using the same fonts, palette,
   decorative vocabulary, spacing rhythm, and component grammar — never bail
   to a different template.
6. **Keep the navigation runtime as shipped.** If the deck ships an
   `assets/deck-stage.js` or inline keyboard handler, leave it intact.

## Output contract

Emit between `<artifact>` tags:

```
<artifact identifier="zhangzara-cobalt-grid" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>
```

## Source & license

Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed
[`zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates`](https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/cobalt-grid).

The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at
[`LICENSE`](./LICENSE) and must be redistributed alongside any copy of `example.html`,
`template.json`, or any vendored `assets/` runtime. See `template.json` for the upstream metadata snapshot.
