{ "id": "041", "url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/041", "css_url": "https://www.csszengarden.com/041/041.css", "title": "door to my garden", "author": "Patrick Lauke", "description": { "summary": "A minimalist web design featuring high contrast black and white aesthetics with a textured window background and transparent overlaid menu panels that create visual depth and spatial hierarchy.", "visual_style": "The design employs a stark monochromatic palette with subtle textural elements, creating a contemplative, zen-inspired visual language that balances negative space with structured text blocks.", "emotional_impact": "The dark, meditative atmosphere evokes a sense of calm focus and intellectual clarity, enhanced by the contrast between the shadowy background and illuminated text.", "compositional_elements": "Layered transparent panels create dimensional depth against the textured window backdrop, with carefully structured text blocks and subtle curved bracket elements providing organic counterpoints to the geometric layout." }, "artistic_context": { "style_influences": "Japanese minimalism, early digital interface design, monochromatic photography", "visual_metaphors": "Window as portal to knowledge, transparency as clarity of thought, organic curves against rigid structure" }, "categories": [ "minimalist", "monochromatic", "textural", "zen-inspired", "transparent", "grid-based" ], "visual_characteristics": [ "high-contrast", "layered-transparency", "textured-background", "typographic-hierarchy", "negative-space", "bracket-motifs" ], "design_principles": { "primary_principles": [ "contrast", "hierarchy", "balance", "unity" ], "visual_techniques": [ "transparency", "textural contrast", "spatial layering" ] } }