Retro Memphis — Style Tokens + Row Template
Bright, playful, LOUD. Every status is a different color. Colored shadows. Stacked vertical card with a bold colored banner. This is the fun one.
Layout philosophy: Stacked vertical card with colored banner. The top third of the card is a bold status-colored banner containing the document name in large white text. Below it, a white content area with the status badge, a large progress percentage, and deadline info. The banner color changes per status — the card's personality changes with every item. This is structurally different from Neobrutalism's horizontal sidebar split.
Badge Tokens
- padding:
5px 14px - border-radius:
20px(full pill — playful, round, fun) - font-size:
12px - font-weight:
700 - text-transform:
uppercase
status_colors
| Value | bg | text | border | banner_color |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draft | #fbbf24 | #1f2937 | 2px solid #d97706 | #fbbf24 |
| In Review | #3b82f6 | #ffffff | 2px solid #7c3aed | #3b82f6 |
| Revising | #f472b6 | #ffffff | 2px solid #db2777 | #f472b6 |
| Approved | #2dd4bf | #1f2937 | 2px solid #0d9488 | #2dd4bf |
| Published | #a78bfa | #ffffff | 2px solid #7c3aed | #a78bfa |
| _fallback | #e5e7eb | #374151 | 2px solid #9ca3af | #e5e7eb |
CRITICAL: The banner_color IS the status bg color — the entire top of the card floods with the status hue. Draft cards have a yellow top. In Review cards have a blue top. Revising cards have a hot pink top. Every card in the list is a different color.
Progress Bar Tokens
- progress_track_height:
10px - progress_track_bg:
#fef3c7(warm yellow tint) - progress_track_border:
2px solid #d97706 - progress_track_radius:
5px - progress_fill_radius:
3px - progress_color_low:
#f472b6(HOT PINK — not red) - progress_color_mid:
#3b82f6(ELECTRIC BLUE — not amber) - progress_color_high:
#2dd4bf(TEAL — not green) - progress_label_font_size:
28px(HUGE — the hero element) - progress_label_font_weight:
800 - progress_label_color:
#7c3aed(PURPLE)
Deadline Tokens
- deadline_icon:
🗓️ - date_font_size:
13px - date_normal_color:
#374151 - date_normal_weight:
600 - date_overdue_color:
#db2777(HOT PINK — not red) - date_overdue_weight:
800 - date_sublabel_color:
#7c3aed(PURPLE) - overdue_label:
🔥 OVERDUE
Row Card Tokens
- card_border:
3px solid(color matches status shadow_color) - card_border_radius:
12px(rounded — playful) - card_background:
#ffffff - card_margin_bottom:
12px - card_shadow:
6px 6px 0px(large hard offset — COLORED per status) - banner_height: (auto — wraps content with padding)
- banner_padding:
16px 20px - content_padding:
16px 20px - overdue_border_color:
#db2777 - overdue_shadow_color:
#db2777
Row Template Layout
Stacked vertical card with a status-colored banner on top.
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Key difference from Neobrutalism: Neobrutalism is a HORIZONTAL split (sidebar left, content right). Retro is a VERTICAL split (banner top, content bottom). Even the silhouettes are different.
rowFormatter JSON
Adapt before applying. The column names below ([$Status], [$Progress], [$Deadline]) are example placeholders — replace them with the actual internal column names from the user's list. Also update every status value string ('Draft', 'In Review', 'Revising', etc.) to match the user's actual Choice values. Follow list-styling Step 3.
json{ "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/view-formatting.schema.json", "hideSelection": false, "hideColumnHeaders": true, "rowFormatter": { "elmType": "div", "style": { "display": "flex", "flex-direction": "column", "border": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '3px solid #db2777', if([$Status] == 'Draft', '3px solid #d97706', if([$Status] == 'In Review', '3px solid #7c3aed', if([$Status] == 'Revising', '3px solid #db2777', if([$Status] == 'Approved', '3px solid #0d9488', if([$Status] == 'Published', '3px solid #7c3aed', '3px solid #9ca3af'))))))", "border-radius": "12px", "background-color": "#ffffff", "margin-bottom": "12px", "box-shadow": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '6px 6px 0px #db2777', if([$Status] == 'Draft', '6px 6px 0px #d97706', if([$Status] == 'In Review', '6px 6px 0px #7c3aed', if([$Status] == 'Revising', '6px 6px 0px #db2777', if([$Status] == 'Approved', '6px 6px 0px #0d9488', if([$Status] == 'Published', '6px 6px 0px #7c3aed', '6px 6px 0px #9ca3af'))))))", "overflow": "hidden" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "style": { "padding": "16px 20px", "background-color": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '#db2777', if([$Status] == 'Draft', '#fbbf24', if([$Status] == 'In Review', '#3b82f6', if([$Status] == 'Revising', '#f472b6', if([$Status] == 'Approved', '#2dd4bf', if([$Status] == 'Published', '#a78bfa', '#e5e7eb'))))))", "display": "flex", "align-items": "center", "gap": "10px" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "style": { "font-size": "16px", "font-weight": "800", "color": "=if([$Status] == 'Draft', '#1f2937', if([$Status] == 'Approved', '#1f2937', '#ffffff'))", "flex": "1", "line-height": "1.3" }, "txtContent": "=if([$FileLeafRef] == '', [$Title], [$FileLeafRef])" }, { "elmType": "span", "txtContent": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '🔥', '✨')", "style": { "font-size": "20px" } } ] }, { "elmType": "div", "style": { "padding": "16px 20px", "display": "flex", "flex-direction": "column", "gap": "12px" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "style": { "display": "flex", "align-items": "center", "gap": "14px", "flex-wrap": "wrap" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "span", "txtContent": "[$Status]", "style": { "display": "inline-block", "padding": "5px 14px", "border-radius": "20px", "font-size": "12px", "font-weight": "700", "text-transform": "uppercase", "white-space": "nowrap", "border": "=if([$Status] == 'Draft', '2px solid #d97706', if([$Status] == 'In Review', '2px solid #7c3aed', if([$Status] == 'Revising', '2px solid #db2777', if([$Status] == 'Approved', '2px solid #0d9488', if([$Status] == 'Published', '2px solid #7c3aed', '2px solid #9ca3af')))))", "color": "=if([$Status] == 'Draft', '#1f2937', if([$Status] == 'In Review', '#ffffff', if([$Status] == 'Revising', '#ffffff', if([$Status] == 'Approved', '#1f2937', if([$Status] == 'Published', '#ffffff', '#374151')))))", "background-color": "=if([$Status] == 'Draft', '#fbbf24', if([$Status] == 'In Review', '#3b82f6', if([$Status] == 'Revising', '#f472b6', if([$Status] == 'Approved', '#2dd4bf', if([$Status] == 'Published', '#a78bfa', '#e5e7eb')))))" } }, { "elmType": "span", "txtContent": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '🔥 AT RISK', '🎯 ON TRACK')", "style": { "font-size": "11px", "font-weight": "700", "color": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '#db2777', '#0d9488')" } }, { "elmType": "span", "txtContent": "=toString([$Progress]) + '%'", "style": { "font-size": "28px", "font-weight": "800", "color": "#7c3aed", "margin-left": "auto" } } ] }, { "elmType": "div", "style": { "width": "100%", "height": "10px", "background-color": "#fef3c7", "border": "2px solid #d97706", "border-radius": "5px", "overflow": "hidden" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "style": { "width": "=toString([$Progress]) + '%'", "height": "100%", "border-radius": "3px", "background-color": "=if([$Progress] < 30, '#f472b6', if([$Progress] < 66, '#3b82f6', '#2dd4bf'))" } } ] }, { "elmType": "div", "style": { "display": "flex", "align-items": "center", "gap": "6px" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "span", "txtContent": "🗓️", "style": { "font-size": "13px" } }, { "elmType": "span", "txtContent": "=toLocaleDateString([$Deadline])", "style": { "font-size": "13px", "font-weight": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '800', '600')", "color": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '#db2777', '#374151')" } }, { "elmType": "span", "txtContent": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '🔥 OVERDUE', 'DEADLINE')", "style": { "font-size": "10px", "font-weight": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '700', '500')", "color": "=if([$Deadline] < @now, '#db2777', '#7c3aed')", "text-transform": "uppercase" } } ] } ] } ] } }
Checklist — "I Can't Believe That's SharePoint"
- ✅ Full rowFormatter — NOT default column grid
- ✅ VERTICAL STACKED layout with colored banner on top — NOT a sidebar (structurally different from Neobrutalism)
- ✅ Banner background FLOODS with the status color — yellow, blue, pink, teal, or lavender
- ✅ Document name is white-on-color in the banner — bold and prominent
- ✅ ✨ sparkle emoji in banner (🔥 for overdue) — playful decorative element
- ✅ Card border AND shadow color change per status — colored, NEVER black
- ✅ 6px hard offset colored shadows (bigger than Neobrutalism's 4px)
- ✅ Rounded corners (12px) — playful, not sharp
- ✅ Pill-shaped status badges (20px radius) with colored borders
- ✅ Progress percentage is HUGE (28px) and PURPLE — pushed to the right
- ✅ Progress bar track is warm yellow (#fef3c7) with amber border
- ✅ Progress fills are PINK → BLUE → TEAL (not red → amber → green)
- ✅ Deadline sublabel is PURPLE, overdue is HOT PINK with 🔥
- ✅ Every status gets its own distinct hue — no repeats
- ✅ Overdue cards: banner turns hot pink, border/shadow turn hot pink, 🔥 replaces ✨
- ✅ The list looks like a bag of candy exploded — in a good way
- ✅ Silhouette test: banner-on-top looks NOTHING like sidebar-on-left (Neobrutalism)
Responsive / mobile
- ≤ 600 px: drop the colored
box-shadowoffset from 4 px to 2 px so it doesn't clip the next card. - ≤ 480 px: the banner stays full-width — it carries the identity. Stack the metadata (progress + deadline) vertically below it.
- Hero text: the large progress percentage below the banner steps
32 px → 24 pxon mobile. Do not go below 24 px. - Touch targets: ≥ 44 × 44 px on the row card.
Implementation notes
Status-tinted shadows render inconsistently
The colored box-shadow (hot pink for overdue, banner color elsewhere) is not portable:
- Chrome / Edge: render the offset and color correctly.
- Safari: occasionally mutes saturation on
box-shadowcolors, so the pink reads more salmon than hot. - Older SharePoint themes: strip multi-layer or colored
box-shadowentirely.
Provide a fallback that does not depend on the shadow: the colored top banner must always render — it is the primary identity element. The shadow is decoration. When QA shows the shadow is missing in a target environment, do not add a different decoration; let the banner do the work.
The pink/blue/teal progress palette is intentional — explain it once
Consumers used to traffic-light progress (red < 30% → amber → green ≥ 70%) will see a 95 % card filled in teal and assume the style is broken. It is not. Retro Memphis progress goes pink → blue → teal by design — each value gets its own distinct hue, the way 80s Memphis palettes worked.
When applying this style for the first time in a tenant, surface this fact in a single sentence to the user: "Progress in Retro Memphis uses pink → blue → teal instead of red → amber → green — that's intentional."
