HTML PPT — Tactical Telemetry / CRT Terminal
A 16:9 deck for project debriefs, security reviews, infra incident write-ups, ops walkthroughs, and any "we are not selling, we are reporting" presentation. Reads like a declassified mission packet, not a pitch deck.
This skill commits to ONE substrate (dark CRT) — never mix with the light Swiss-print mode in the same artifact.
Source
Distilled from Leonxlnx/taste-skill — skills/brutalist-skill/SKILL.md §2.2 (Tactical Telemetry & CRT Terminal). Deck system follows the project's existing html-ppt convention (16:9 slides, vertical-stack fallback when opened directly).
Hard rules
- Substrate: deactivated-CRT charcoal
#0A0A0A/#121212. Never pure black. - Foreground: white phosphor
#EAEAEA. Secondary#9A9A98. - Accent: ONE color — hazard red
#E61919. Used on alerts, classifications, the latest data point. Never as a slide background fill. - Optional: terminal green
#4AF626for ONE specific UI element across the entire deck (e.g. a single status indicator). Omit if it doesn't earn its place. - Type: monospace dominates. JetBrains Mono / IBM Plex Mono for body and meta. Heavy condensed grotesque (Archivo Black / Inter Black) only for slide titles.
- Title scale:
clamp(56px, 7vw, 96px), uppercase, tracking-0.04em, leading0.9. - Geometry:
border-radius: 0. Visible 1px hairlines (#2A2A28on charcoal). Usedisplay: grid; gap: 1pxover a hairline-colored background to render perfect cells. - Scanline overlay: subtle
repeating-linear-gradientat2px / 4pxcycle, opacity ≤0.08, applied as a fixed pointer-events-none layer. - Phosphor noise: optional SVG-grain pseudo-element, opacity ≤
0.06. - Slide chrome: every slide carries top register strip — classification, slide ID, timestamp, coordinates — and a bottom bar with serial number + page.
Banned
border-radiusabove 0.- Drop shadows, gradients, glassmorphism, glow.
- Color other than charcoal, phosphor, hazard red, and at most one terminal-green element.
- Sans-serif body fonts. Monospace is the body.
- Pitch-deck "delight" — emoji, illustration, stock photography, friendly icons.
- Light-mode slides anywhere in the same deck.
- Slide transitions other than instant cuts.
Required slide archetypes (10–14 total)
- Classification cover — giant numeral or call-sign on the left, redaction bar above the title, mono meta column on the right.
- Briefing strip — eight-cell mono register with mission ID, dates, principals, classification.
- Numbered objectives — three to five hairline-separated theses, each with
>>>marker. - Telemetry grid —
display: grid; gap: 1pxof mono key-value cells; red highlight on the variant that breaks the trend. - Threat / risk register — hairline table with severity column in red.
- Sequence / timeline — vertical mono list, 2-px vertical rule on the left, hazard markers on critical events.
- Diagram / wiring — pure-CSS box-and-line schematic; rectangles with hairlines, ASCII arrows.
- Specimen — single mono character or word at viewport-bleeding scale, used as a visual fulcrum.
- Alert — diagonal hazard-stripe block (
repeating-linear-gradient(135deg, ...)) with the most important sentence in the deck. - Audit log — append-only mono entries with timestamp + actor + event.
- Closing colophon — operator, system, build, classification, sign-off line.
Motion
This aesthetic is mechanical and instant.
- Cuts between slides — no fades. Optionally a 60ms flicker (
opacity: 0.85 → 1). - A blinking caret on the cover (
▌) and a single pulse on the live status dot. Nothing else moves.
Pre-flight
- Substrate is charcoal, foreground is phosphor, only accent is hazard red
- All
border-radiusis 0; all corners are 90° - Title slide includes classification + serial + timestamp + coordinates
- At least one
display: grid; gap: 1pxtelemetry module - Scanline overlay applied as fixed pointer-events-none element, opacity ≤ 0.08
- At least one diagonal hazard-stripe alert block
- ASCII syntax decoration (
[ ... ],>>>,///) appears at least four times across the deck - Numeric data uses tabular-nums + monospace
- No emojis, no curves, no gradients, no shadow effects
- Terminal green appears on zero or one element only — never as text body color
