{ "id": "034", "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/034", "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/034/034.css", "title": "zengrounds", "author": "Andrea Piernock", "description": { "summary": "A nostalgic web design showcasing a dark-themed educational interface with golden accents, combining early 2000s aesthetics with structured content organization to demonstrate CSS capabilities.", "visual_style": "Deliberately retro design with a black background, gold heading typography, and segmented content panels that evoke early web design practices while maintaining functional clarity.", "emotional_impact": "Creates a sense of digital nostalgia through its vintage web interface elements, balanced by an authoritative and educational tone established through structured layout and hierarchical information.", "compositional_elements": "Three-column layout with a prominent header, distinct content sections marked by decorative dividers, and consistent typographic hierarchy throughout nested content blocks." }, "artistic_context": { "style_influences": "Early web design aesthetics, Y2K-era interfaces, tech-oriented documentation sites, Japanese zen philosophy visual metaphors", "visual_metaphors": "Digital garden as cultivated knowledge space, enlightenment path through structured learning" }, "categories": [ "retro-digital", "educational", "structured", "dark-themed", "technical", "nostalgic" ], "visual_characteristics": [ "gold-black contrast", "sectioned-content", "pixel-graphics", "decorative-dividers", "hierarchical-typography", "cartoon-illustration" ], "design_principles": { "primary_principles": [ "contrast", "hierarchy", "consistency", "emphasis" ], "visual_techniques": [ "content compartmentalization", "navigational framing", "decorative header treatment" ] } }