{
  "slug": "zhangzara-monochrome",
  "name": "Monochrome",
  "tagline": "Ivory ledger paper with all-black type; Lora serif headlines, Jost body, no color at all.",
  "mood": [
    "restrained",
    "literary",
    "archival",
    "ledger"
  ],
  "occasion": [
    "user research synthesis",
    "white paper",
    "longform report",
    "academic deck",
    "policy brief",
    "advisory deliverable",
    "bilingual EN/CN deck"
  ],
  "tone": [
    "literary",
    "considered",
    "neutral",
    "honest"
  ],
  "formality": "high",
  "density": "high",
  "palette": {
    "bg": "#fafadf",
    "bg_alt": "#f2f2d2",
    "bg_cream": "#f5f0e4",
    "fg": "#1a1a16",
    "fg_2": "#5e5e54",
    "description": "ivory and pale-cream paper with deep ink-black type only; no color at all; the system runs on typography, line, and white space"
  },
  "typography": {
    "display": "Lora",
    "body": "Jost",
    "mono": "JetBrains Mono",
    "serif_cn": "Noto Serif SC",
    "sans_cn": "Noto Sans SC",
    "style": "literary serif headlines + clean geometric sans body + technical mono; reads like a hand-typeset ledger"
  },
  "scheme": "light",
  "best_for": "Anything that should feel like a hand-typeset ledger: user research synthesis, white papers, longform reports, academic and policy briefs, advisory deliverables, bilingual EN/CN reports. Equally good for tech, design, or brand decks that want their words to be the only thing on the page.",
  "avoid_for": "Decks that need visual personality or color-led storytelling — the all-ink palette is intentionally austere.",
  "slide_count": 16,
  "navigation": "inline keyboard handler",
  "source": "https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/monochrome"
}
