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Templates gallery

Each template is a self-contained, neutral HTML file: no lab branding, no paper content — only TODO placeholders. Copy one to your working dir as poster.html, edit :root design tokens, swap TODOs for your content, then iterate via tools/run_gates.py (the default driver — runs preflight → style → measure → polish in one shot) + tools/render_preview.py for the PDF. (Plain tools/poster_check.py measure still works if you don't adopt the style/asset gates.)

Every layout-critical element carries data-measure-role so the measurement script can locate columns / hero / footer regions across templates.

Component contracts live in COMPONENTS.md; the design-axes composition menu (layout / canvas / palette / typography / density / card & frame / section-heading joint / masthead-footer, plus devices and clash rules) lives in DESIGN-AXES.md; re-theming mechanisms and a field-tested accent pool live in THEMES.md (a theme is a :root token swap — the result register --emph is chosen per poster / per wave, then held fixed within the wave; --accent-ink / --emph-ink carry the ink on those fills, and --rs scales every corner radius, 1 = shipped soft look, 0 = square).

Scaffolds, not finished posters

A template is a scaffold: figures are commented out and copy is TODO stubs, so each column only fills the top of the canvas. That means:

• preflight passes out of the box — it checks structure (valid roles, no LaTeX residue, no raw < in math), which the scaffold already satisfies.
• measure and polish are gates for your finished poster. They check that columns bottom-align to within 5 px, that the gap to the footer sits in a tight band, and that no card is left half-empty — properties only a filled poster can have. An unfilled scaffold is expected to fail them (huge column-bottom spread, a large gap to the footer). That's not a bug in the template; it's the gate telling you the poster isn't finished yet.

So the loop is: copy → fill content + uncomment figures → run measure/polish and balance until they pass. For an all-gates-pass reference, see examples/hello_world/ (a complete, balanced poster).

Picking a template

Template	Canvas	Layout	Use when
landscape_4col_neutral	60 × 36 in landscape	header → optional banner → 4 columns → optional takeaways → footer	Standard ML conference poster (ICML / NeurIPS / generic). You have ~3–5 content cards per column. Mix of figures, equations, tables. The default choice.
landscape_hero_neutral	60 × 36 in landscape	header → hero panel (1.5fr) + supporting column (1fr) → optional takeaways → footer	The paper's main figure or system diagram IS the visual hook. You want one big illustration on the left and 3–4 short cards on the right. No framework banner (hero replaces it).
portrait_2col_neutral	24 × 36 in portrait	header → 2 columns → footer (no banner, no takeaways strip)	ICLR / CVPR portrait spec, or any venue with portrait orientation. Vertical space is precious — banner + takeaways are dropped; final card on right column acts as a takeaways callout. 2-col is the default portrait skeleton, not the only one: other portrait topologies (band stack, playbill, mid-stage band, …) are in DESIGN-AXES.md §Axis 1 · portrait translations — build those from this template's tokens and carry its BASE DEFENSES block into the custom skeleton.

Adding a new template

A new template MUST:

1. Set @page { size: <W>in <H>in } (or mm/cm/pt) inside a <style> block — the canvas parser fails if absent.
2. Carry data-measure-role="poster" on the root poster element.
3. Use these roles consistently:
   • header on the whole header region (title + authors + affiliation, plus the logo / venue-badge / QR blocks) — polish's logo & QR gates only look under this role, so it must wrap those blocks, not just the title text
   • banner on a horizontal banner row (optional)
   • band on a full-width content band (portrait stage/hero bands, DESIGN-AXES Axis 1 portrait translations) — excluded from the alignment spread like banner, but its content keeps the clip / broken-image / letterbox checks; direct child of poster
   • body on the body grid container
   • column on each vertical content column
   • card on each content card inside columns
   • hero on a hero panel (mutually-exclusive with framework banner)
   • footer-strip on a takeaways / highlight strip (optional)
   • footer on the bottom info bar (method · venue · acknowledgements · code repo · contact — logos and the QR live in the header, not here)
4. Use the --u unit system (1.6px screen, 1mm print) for ALL sizing via calc(N * var(--u)) — never bare px except for hairlines.
5. Keep all paper-specific content as TODO placeholders — neutral templates only.

Add a row in the table above and link it in SKILL.md Step 3.