# retro-popup-pop

Retro pixel popup × pop-art collage — content rendered as a stack of 80/90s desktop dialog windows with thick black outlines, flat color fills, and bright cyan or vintage cream backgrounds.

## Color Palette

- Background: Bright cyan (#12B8DE) primary canvas, vintage cream (#F5F0E6) alternate
- Window fills: Vintage cream (#F5F0E6) and pure white (#FFFFFF)
- Primary text and outlines: Pure black (#000000)
- Reverse text: Pure white on solid black title bars
- Accent fills (small areas only): Salmon pink, sky blue, mustard yellow, mint green — muted retro tones

## Visual Elements

- 80s/90s desktop popup windows with title bars, close buttons (×), and chunky borders
- Multiple windows tiled or lightly overlapping with offset solid-black drop shadows for depth
- ERROR / ALERT / WARNING dialogs to highlight misconceptions, common pitfalls, risks
- File-window vignettes labeled with retro filenames (PROBLEMS.EXE, METHOD.PNG, BURNOUT.PSD, FOCUS_SCAN, SYSTEM_ALERT, IDEAS_MISSING)
- Progress bars for completion, difficulty, conversion rate, or trend
- Pixel-style chunky icons: folders, magnifiers, gears, exclamation marks, floppy disks, hourglasses
- Action buttons with thick black borders and short pop-style copy: OK, CANCEL, FIX IT, SCAN, PLAY, RETRY, SAVE
- Comparison data rendered as windowed lists or small tabular dialogs
- Uniform thick black outlines on every window, button, icon, and divider
- Pure 2D flat color fills throughout — no gradients, no glow, no glass

## Typography

- Headers: Pixel / dot-matrix / chunky bitmap display fonts, large and high-contrast
- Body: Retro monospace or system-style sans-serif, high legibility
- Title bars: Reverse white on solid black, all-caps preferred
- Decorative all-caps English allowed for filenames, status strings, button labels (PROBLEMS.EXE, OK, CANCEL); body content text remains in the confirmed output language

## Style Enforcement

- Every information chunk must live inside a window, dialog, button, or progress bar — no floating elements
- Uniform thick black outlines everywhere; offset solid-black drop shadows for stacked-window depth
- Limit accent palette to ~4 colors per composition; let cyan or cream dominate the canvas
- Maintain low-fi pixel/popup feel; humorous popup copy welcome, polished modern UI prohibited

## Avoid

- Modern UI styles: glassmorphism, neumorphism, soft shadows, blurs, gradients
- 3D rendering, photorealism, ray-traced shadows
- Hand-drawn wobble, watercolor washes, or sketch textures
- Smooth anti-aliased curves on icons (prefer chunky pixel/stair-step edges)
- Pure black backgrounds — keep cyan or cream as the canvas

## Best For

High-density "干货" knowledge guides, common-pitfall and debunking posts, knowledge-pop content for design-savvy or developer audiences, Xiaohongshu-style retro-tech posts, dense-modules portrait infographics.
