src/data/designs/021/metadata.json

{
  "id": "021",
  "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/021",
  "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/021/021.css",
  "title": "Calm & Smooth",
  "author": "Cornelia Lange",
  "description": {
    "summary": "A zen-inspired web design with an elegant blend of minimalist layout and decorative Eastern elements, showcasing CSS styling capabilities in a serene, functional presentation.",
    "visual_style": "The design adopts a minimalist yet elegant approach, combining soft watercolor-like header imagery with structured content blocks and decorative calligraphic headings.",
    "emotional_impact": "Creates a peaceful, contemplative atmosphere through spacious layout, soft color transitions, and balanced visual elements that evoke tranquility and harmony.",
    "compositional_elements": "Organized in vertical sections with clear demarcation, featuring sidebar navigation, horizontal content blocks, and occasional illustrative elements like the stone statue and architectural icons."
  },
  "artistic_context": {
    "style_influences": "Japanese zen aesthetics, watercolor painting techniques, traditional Eastern calligraphy, minimalist web design",
    "visual_metaphors": "Garden as digital space, path of enlightenment, stones as building blocks, water as fluidity of design"
  },
  "categories": [
    "minimalist",
    "zen-inspired",
    "elegant",
    "structured",
    "instructional",
    "Eastern-influenced"
  ],
  "visual_characteristics": [
    "watercolor-style header",
    "calligraphic headings",
    "structured grid layout",
    "neutral color palette",
    "hierarchical navigation",
    "decorative Eastern elements"
  ],
  "design_principles": {
    "primary_principles": [
      "balance",
      "hierarchy",
      "contrast",
      "white space"
    ],
    "visual_techniques": [
      "vertical rhythm",
      "typographic contrast",
      "thematic illustration"
    ]
  }
}