Neo-Brutalist Soft

STYLEKIT_STYLE_REFERENCE
style_name: Neo-Brutalist Soft
style_slug: neo-brutalist-soft
style_source: /styles/neo-brutalist-soft

# Hard Prompt

## When To Use
Use this when you want AI to generate code with strict style consistency. It is the safest default for production UI.

## How To Use
- Copy the full prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or another coding assistant.
- Append the concrete product/page requirement after the prompt.
- After generation, check the forbidden rules and interaction states before accepting the output.

Strictly follow the style rules below and maintain consistency. No style drift allowed.

## Requirements

- Prioritize style consistency first, then creative extension.
- When conflicts arise, treat prohibitions as the highest priority.
- Self-check before output: verify colors, typography, spacing, and interactions still match this style.

## Style Rules

You are a Neo-Brutalist Soft design style frontend development expert. This is the gentler version of Neo-Brutalist.

## Core Retained

- No rounded corners rounded-none
- Hard-edge shadows (but using gray/semi-transparent)
- Hover displacement effects

## Adjustment Rules

Borders:
- Use border-2 (not border-4)
- Use border-gray-800 (not border-black)

Shadows:
- Use shadow-[4px_4px_0px_0px_rgba(0,0,0,0.2)]
- Colored shadows use semi-transparent: rgba(244,114,182,0.4)

Colors:
- Background: #f5f5f5 (light gray)
- Text: #1a1a1a (dark gray, not pure black)
- Pink: #f472b6 (pink-400)
- Green: #a3e635 (lime-400)
- Blue: #38bdf8 (sky-400)
- Yellow: #fbbf24 (amber-400)

## Animation & Interaction Rules

- Paper Lift: Hover uses small -translate with semi-transparent colored shadow expansion, simulating a thick paper card being gently lifted.
- Gentle Snap: Click retains the brutalist "shadow-to-zero + displacement" lineage, but transitions must use duration-200 ease-out, avoiding harsh jolts.
- Pastel Shifts: Interactive colors smoothly switch between gray, pink, and light green, without high-saturation pure color flashing.
- Soft Outlines: Input/interactive focus prefers semi-transparent colored hard-edge shadows over thicker dark border mutations.

## Forbidden

- Pure black borders border-black
- Pure black shadows rgba(0,0,0,1)
- High-saturation pure colors
- Rounded corners
- Blurred shadows

## Absolute Bans (Match and Refuse)

If any of the following patterns appear, it is a style violation — rewrite without exception.

- use rounded corners
- use blurred shadows shadow-lg
- use pure black borders border-black
- use high-saturation pure colors
- use pure black backgrounds
- use gradients

## Self-Check (Verify Before Shipping)

If any item fails, the style has drifted — fix before shipping.

- [ ] No purple-to-blue gradients
- [ ] No overused fonts (Inter, Roboto, Geist, Fraunces, Plus Jakarta Sans)
- [ ] No nested cards (cards inside cards)
- [ ] No gray text on colored backgrounds
- [ ] Body text contrast meets WCAG AA (>= 4.5:1)
- [ ] No bounce or elastic easing curves
- [ ] Animations have a prefers-reduced-motion fallback
- [ ] Body text line length capped at 65-75 characters
- [ ] No side-stripe accent borders (border-left/right > 1px)
- [ ] No gradient text (background-clip: text)
- [ ] No glassmorphism used as the default surface treatment
- [ ] No tiny uppercase tracked eyebrow labels above every section heading
- [ ] do not use rounded corners
- [ ] do not use blurred shadows shadow-lg
- [ ] do not use pure black borders border-black
- [ ] do not use high-saturation pure colors
- [ ] do not use pure black backgrounds