Y2K Aesthetic
Y2K 千禧美学
Aliases:千禧风Y2K风格千禧年美学镀铬金属质感iMac糖果色那种闪亮科技感千禧辣妹风Cyber Y2K
What is it
A visual language reviving turn-of-the-millennium digital optimism: liquid chrome, iMac translucent candy plastics, bubble type, sparkle stars, and pink-purple-blue gradients on silver highlights. It mixes naive futurism with clumsy low-poly 3D — sweet, shiny, gloriously unrestrained.
Design spec
Typography
Rounded type with chrome gradient titles
Color
Silver-lilac gradients with electric violet #7B61FF
Border
1px lavender outlines, large radius
Shadow
Soft violet glow shadows
Spacing
Bubble 20px radii, relaxed spacing
Motion
150–250ms transitions with a slight bounce and glow shifts; honour prefers-reduced-motion
States
Hover strengthens the chrome gradient and glow; focus shows a visible violet ring; active scales down and darkens; disabled loses opacity and glow; error uses a red-pink gradient
Style in action
The same page, ready to useEnter now, supply a nickname and outfit and generate a matching member card; edit and regenerate it. Music, Outfits, Planet and Member card reveal content; identity is generated locally only.
Full-page preview · interact directly
What to look for
- 01Use ☆ CyberDream ☆’s original navigation and primary CTAs; inspect content and return paths, not just click notices.
- 02Complete the ☆ CyberDream ☆ 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
- Music, streetwear and fashion brands chasing Y2K nostalgia
- Party, social and entertainment products that want sugary energy
- Retro-themed campaigns and limited packaging
✕ When not to use
- Fintech, healthcare and productivity — trust demands restraint
- Long reading sessions — saturation and sparkles fatigue the eye
- Accessibility-critical contexts — silver-on-pastel often fails contrast
Variants
Candy Plastic
糖果塑料
iMac G3 translucent shells in blue, green, orange and pink
Liquid Chrome
镀铬金属
Liquid-metal type and mirror gradients — the Cyber Y2K branch
Iridescent
珠光幻彩
Pearlescent sheen and CD-rainbow gradients
Implementation
background: linear-gradient(#e0e0e0, #8f9096, #f5f5f5)background-clip: texttext-shadowborder-radius: 999pxbox-shadow: insetChrome is a narrow multi-stop greyscale gradient — #f8f8f8 → #9a9ba2 → #ffffff → #7c7d84 — with a 1px white inset highlight and a dark shadow; chrome text is the same gradient through background-clip: text. Candy plastic is a saturated fill with a white inner glow across the top 40% to fake translucency. Spend sparkles and bubble type on two or three accents. Dark mode goes purple-black so silver pops.
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 ☆ CyberDream ☆ 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 CyberDream’s pale silver/lilac/pink gradient, rounded type, violet CTA, right-side chart and three pale feature cards; do not replace original text with mandatory clipped chrome lettering or new sparkle components. The member card retains its pastel pink/blue gradient, 2px white rim, 28px radius and -2deg tilt, with nickname and outfit as real content. Reuse current preview.tokens: background linear-gradient(160deg,#DDE7F5 0%,#EFD3E8 55%,#C9C8F4 100%); foreground #3A3A55; accent #7B61FF / #fff; card rgba(255,255,255,.78); border #B8B8E0; radius 20px; font ui-rounded, 'Arial Rounded MT Bold', 'PingFang SC', sans-serif; card shadow 0 8px 18px rgba(123,97,255,.18). Use generic-style-pages.css’s existing workspace dark/variants selectors rather than redrawing the hero from generic historical variants; retain each rendered visual panel’s local highlights, gradients and shadows. Full-page operations: Enter now, supply a nickname and outfit and generate a matching member card; edit and regenerate it. Music, Outfits, Planet and Member card reveal content; identity is generated locally only. Share one renderer between static covers, the detail experience and /style-scenes/y2k/ (English /en/style-scenes/y2k/). 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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