Terminal Amber
The warmer monitor: amber on near-black, softer on the eye, same discipline.
Construction · Terminal
Everything lands on a character grid: block fills, no rounding, no shadow, and an edge that is just where one cell ends and the next begins.
Every style renders this same screen, so the only thing changing between two of them is the style. The component above is the file below, running.
Prompt
Design this interface in the Terminal Amber style. Amber fixed-pitch text on near-black, with the same character-grid discipline as a green terminal but a warmer, lower-glare cast. Build every surface the Terminal way:
The numbers in this prompt are printed from the tokens below, so it cannot drift from what the specimen renders.
What carries the look
- amber on near-black
- fixed pitch
- low glare cast
- character grid
What this style refuses
- cool blue tints
- proportional type
- rounded corners
- photographic imagery
The refusals are the half that keeps generated interfaces from converging — a prompt that only says what to add gets the default look.
Tokens
Palette
#100b04#0a0703#171009#120c06#3d2c14#33240f#ffb454#ffb454#b8823c#b8823c#ffb454#ffb454#140b02#140b02Shape and type
Measured contrast — body 11.11:1 light, 11.4:1 dark; secondary text 5.88:1 and 6.03:1. Every pair clears WCAG AA in both themes, checked on each build.
Specimen · Specimen.tsx
import type { CSSProperties } from "react";
/**
* Vibary · Terminal Amber
*
* The warmer monitor: amber on near-black, softer on the eye, same discipline.
*
* One complete product screen, rendered from the token object below —