Terminal Paper
A manual page: monospace on white, hairline rules, absolutely no color.
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 Paper style. Monospace at reading size on white paper, structured by hairline rules like a printed manual. Color appears nowhere except in a link. Build every surface the Terminal
The numbers in this prompt are printed from the tokens below, so it cannot drift from what the specimen renders.
What carries the look
- monospace on white
- hairline rules
- manual page structure
- no color
What this style refuses
- colored surfaces
- proportional body type
- rounded corners
- shadows
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
#fcfcfa#0d0d0c#ffffff#141413#d8d8d2#2b2b28#151513#f2f2ee#57574f#9c9c94#1a4fa0#7aa7e6#ffffff#050d1cShape and type
Measured contrast — body 17.8:1 light, 17.33:1 dark; secondary text 7.09:1 and 7.03:1. Every pair clears WCAG AA in both themes, checked on each build.
Specimen · Specimen.tsx
import type { CSSProperties } from "react";
/**
* Vibary · Terminal Paper
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* A manual page: monospace on white, hairline rules, absolutely no color.
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* One complete product screen, rendered from the token object below —