Retro-Futurism
复古未来主义
Aliases:复古未来主义复古未来风太空时代风原子时代设计七八十年代科幻风落日灰壳那种怀旧科技AtompunkRaygun Gothic
What is it
The future as imagined by the past: cream-orange-brown warm palettes, chunky rounded casings, orbit lines and planet decals, pixel screens and CRT phosphor — optimistic tech that has aged. Space-age dashboards, vintage appliances and space-race posters fold into one warm nostalgic future.
Design spec
Typography
Mono chrome caps display
Color
Deep purple gradient to #7A1F63 with pink #FF71CE
Border
1px neon pink outlines
Shadow
Neon glow
Spacing
Horizon-grid composition
Motion
200–300ms neon warm-up and scanline drift; honour prefers-reduced-motion
States
Hover brightens the chrome and pink glow; focus shows a visible pink ring; active lowers brightness; disabled loses glow and saturation; error uses magenta neon
Style in action
The same page, ready to usePlay the radio starts a WebAudio synthesized tone after a user gesture. Play/pause, choose among three tracks and adjust volume. Radio, Tour, Tapes and REC reveal content; disclose local synthesis, not live broadcasting or recording uploads.
Full-page preview · interact directly
What to look for
- 01Use SYNTH-84’s original navigation and primary CTAs; inspect content and return paths, not just click notices.
- 02Complete the SYNTH-84 task, then change inputs or undo and inspect the matching result/state.
- 03Check reflow, focus and validation with keyboard and 390px / 320px viewports; distinguish toolbar reload from in-page clearing and inspect reset-on-reload boundaries.
✓ When to use
- Games, music and nostalgia-tech brand storytelling
- Futures that feel warm and optimistic instead of cold-cyber
- Concept pages where "yesterday's tomorrow" is the story
✕ When not to use
- Modern productivity tools — vintage casing metaphors hurt perceived efficiency
- Minimal premium brands where retro garnish dilutes the signal
- Accessibility-critical contexts — warm palettes often run low contrast
Variants
Atompunk
原子时代
50s–60s space race — orbit lines and rockets
Cassette Futurism
卡带未来
70s–80s CRTs on beige dashboard casings
Synth Sunset
合成器落日
Sunset stripes over grid horizons — adjacent to Y2K
Implementation
background: linear-gradient(#F5E6C8, #E8B87A)border-radius: 24pxbox-shadow: insetrepeating-linear-gradientfont-family: monospaceLock the palette to warm tones: cream #F2E4C2, apricot #E8965A, terracotta #8A4B2E with a dash of lake blue #3D7A99. Casing comes from big radii (20px+) plus a double inset shadow (lit top, dark bottom) faking plastic thickness; orbit lines are thin ellipse borders; grid horizons use repeating-linear-gradient. Mix wide geometric sans with mono screen type. Dark mode goes CRT — warm black with phosphor amber or cyan type.
Agent prompts
Four prompt layers run from “what it is” all the way to a ready-to-run task. On the Agent task layer you can stack a visual style and extra requirements, then copy it to your coding agent in one click.
Build a complete SYNTH-84 page in this style, extending the original hero into content, concrete operations and return paths rather than isolated controls or a partial demo. Preserve brand, hero copy, assets, composition, tokens and all variants. The current YAML preview is authoritative for the brand, original navigation and CTAs; never substitute a generic marketing template. Keep SYNTH-84’s deep purple gradient, pink accent, uppercase monospace DRIVE INTO / THE SUNSET and existing functions. Replace the unrelated bar chart with an original SVG of a striped sunset, mountain silhouette, perspective road and SIDE A cassette. Give the player a dark instrument face and inset scale window. Preserve FM 84.0, three local tracks, volume and playback; dim the equalizer while paused and run its .8s animation only during actual playback, stopping for reduced motion. Reuse current preview.tokens: background linear-gradient(180deg,#140A33 0%,#3D1170 62%,#7A1F63 100%); foreground #FFE8F6; accent #FF71CE / #2A0A2E; card rgba(255,113,206,.12); border rgba(255,113,206,.45); radius 6px; font 'SF Mono', Menlo, monospace; card shadow none. Reuse existing workspace tokens for dark and variants. Share StyleSignatureArt and style-signatures.css between cover and page, preserving the paper, geometric or radio materials. Reflow content on narrow screens. Full-page operations: Play the radio starts a WebAudio synthesized tone after a user gesture. Play/pause, choose among three tracks and adjust volume. Radio, Tour, Tapes and REC reveal content; disclose local synthesis, not live broadcasting or recording uploads. Share one renderer between static covers, the detail experience and /style-scenes/retro-futurism/ (English /en/style-scenes/retro-futurism/). Static covers contain no nested live buttons; the detail experience enables the same page’s semantic controls and brand continuation in an independent document. Original navigation and CTAs reach actual content or workflows, not placeholder links, color-only changes or one-line toasts. Interaction state lives only in this page’s memory. Reload, toolbar reset and mode changes restore initial state; do not use localStorage or sessionStorage. In-page clear/reset undoes this visit’s operations without implying cross-page or persistent saves. Provide return, cancel or clear/reset paths and disclose the page-memory state boundary; never fake real payments, email, login, AI or cloud sync. Reflow desktop, 390px and 320px layouts with readable text and usable targets rather than shrinking the desktop page. Give controls accessible names, keyboard access and visible focus; overlays close and return focus, validation/results are announced; respect prefers-reduced-motion. Add no dependencies. Check both languages, original navigation/CTAs, concrete results, return/reset and narrow reflow; report checks actually run and pending items, never requirements as passed results. Additional requirements: - Dark mode support - Respect prefers-reduced-motion - No new dependencies - Run existing checks and list modified files
Hand to your coding agent — stack a style and extra requirements on top
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