VHS Tracking
Magenta and cyan pulling apart at the edges, with tape noise across the ground.
Construction · Scanline
Everything is drawn by a tube: horizontal scan lines across the whole surface, a bloom around anything bright, and edges that fringe slightly.
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 VHS Tracking style. Color channels separate slightly at the edges into magenta and cyan, over a noisy tape ground. Labels are uppercase and monospaced like an on-screen display. Build every
The numbers in this prompt are printed from the tokens below, so it cannot drift from what the specimen renders.
What carries the look
- channel separation at edges
- tape noise ground
- on-screen display labels
- magenta and cyan
What this style refuses
- clean crisp edges
- light backgrounds
- pastel color
- proportional type
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
#0d0b12#08060c#15121c#100d16#332b45#2c2540#f2ecf8#f2ecf8#a99cc0#a598bd#ff3fa4#ff3fa4#1a0110#1a0110Shape and type
Measured contrast — body 16.88:1 light, 17.4:1 dark; secondary text 7.64:1 and 7.51:1. Every pair clears WCAG AA in both themes, checked on each build.
Specimen · Specimen.tsx
import type { CSSProperties } from "react";
/**
* Vibary · VHS Tracking
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* Magenta and cyan pulling apart at the edges, with tape noise across the ground.
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* One complete product screen, rendered from the token object below —