Pin & Paper

Yellow paper with safety-pin illustrations, ink-blue handwritten Caveat, paper-grain texture.

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: medium
• Density: medium
• Slides in demo: 11

Best for

Anything that should feel hand-crafted, warm, and literary: qualitative research findings, founder reflections, longform brand stories, workshop debriefs. The signature safety-pin illustrations and paper-grain texture make it especially good for any deck — including tech or business — that wants personality and warmth over polish.

Avoid for

Decks that need to feel digital-native polished or rigorously data-driven — handwritten Caveat is intentionally informal.

Workflow

1. Clone example.html AND the assets/ folder into the user's workspace. This template ships an assets/deck-stage.js runtime (keyboard navigation, stage rendering) and an assets/styles.css stylesheet. The HTML references them as assets/deck-stage.js and assets/styles.css, so both must sit next to the cloned HTML or those paths will 404 in the generated artifact and navigation/styling will silently break. Inlining the JS/CSS into a single <script>/<style> block in the HTML is an acceptable alternative when a single self-contained file is preferred.
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-pin-and-paper" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>

Source & license

Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates.

The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at 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.