{
  "id": "039",
  "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/039",
  "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/039/039.css",
  "title": "Erratic Blue",
  "author": "Ian Main",
  "description": {
    "summary": "A minimalist web design featuring a calming blue color palette with a grid-based layout that demonstrates principles of CSS-based design through visual clarity and structured content blocks.",
    "visual_style": "Clean, structured layout with a prominent header and clearly delineated content sections organized in horizontal bands with subtle gradients.",
    "emotional_impact": "Serene and orderly atmosphere created through the use of cool blue tones and ample white space, evoking a sense of calm and methodical organization.",
    "compositional_elements": "Two-column layout with primary content in wider left column and supplementary content in narrower right sidebar, creating a balanced asymmetrical composition with clear visual hierarchy."
  },
  "artistic_context": {
    "style_influences": "Web 2.0 minimalism, early 2000s digital aesthetics, Japanese zen-inspired simplicity",
    "visual_metaphors": "Garden as cultivation of design, flowing water in blue gradients, path of enlightenment through structured spaces"
  },
  "categories": [
    "minimalist",
    "grid-based",
    "monochromatic",
    "functional",
    "educational",
    "zen-inspired"
  ],
  "visual_characteristics": [
    "blue gradient backgrounds",
    "two-column layout",
    "section headers",
    "typographic contrast",
    "horizontal banding",
    "subtle grid texture"
  ],
  "design_principles": {
    "primary_principles": [
      "hierarchy",
      "contrast",
      "repetition",
      "simplicity"
    ],
    "visual_techniques": [
      "color blocking",
      "typographic scaling",
      "white space utilization"
    ]
  }
}