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Bold Poster

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Create striking fundraising pitch decks with ease.

by nexu-io84.9k stars on nexu-io/open-design
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Updated Aug 10, 2026
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What Bold Poster does

The Bold Poster skill provides a self-contained HTML template designed specifically for creating visually impactful fundraising pitch decks. With its editorial poster aesthetic, this skill emphasizes large typography and a vibrant color palette, making it ideal for presentations that aim to capture attention and convey key messages effectively. The template is structured to maintain a cohesive design system, ensuring that all elements work together harmoniously.

Users can start by cloning the provided example.html file, which serves as a foundation for their pitch deck. The workflow emphasizes replacing placeholder content with real data while preserving the design integrity. This includes maintaining the specified fonts, color scheme, and layout structure, which are critical for the overall identity of the presentation. The skill is particularly suited for brand manifestos, founder vision decks, and any presentation that benefits from a bold visual approach.

While the Bold Poster skill excels in delivering a striking visual presence, it is not recommended for presentations that require dense information on each slide. The layout is designed for impactful statements rather than detailed explanations, making it less suitable for data-heavy decks. Users should also be mindful of the need to adhere strictly to the design guidelines to ensure the final output aligns with the intended aesthetic.

When to use it

Use this skill when you need to create a visually striking presentation that prioritizes impactful messaging over detailed content.

When not to use it

Avoid this skill for presentations that require complex data or dense information on each slide.

What you can build with it

Fundraising Pitch for Startups

Use the Bold Poster skill to create an engaging pitch deck for your Series A fundraising round, emphasizing your growth story.

Creative Brand Manifesto

Design a visually compelling brand manifesto that resonates with your audience and effectively communicates your vision.

Cultural Pitch Presentation

Leverage the bold aesthetic for a cultural pitch, ensuring your key messages stand out and are memorable.

How to install Bold Poster

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design/html-ppt-zhangzara-bold-poster --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

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Inside SKILL.md

Written by nexu-io

Bold Poster

Editorial poster aesthetic with massive Shrikhand display and a single fire-engine red accent.

A single self-contained HTML deck — typography, palette, decorative system, and slide vocabulary are all tuned together. Mixing layouts across templates breaks the system; stay inside this one.

At a glance

  • Scheme: light
  • Formality: medium
  • Density: low
  • Slides in demo: 10

Best for

Anything that should land like a magazine cover: brand manifestos, founder vision decks, editorial / cultural pitches, creative reviews. Excellent any time you want a few words to feel like a poster — including unexpected fits like a tech keynote or a finance manifesto that wants to be quotable.

Avoid for

Decks that need to communicate dense information per slide — the layout is built around a few large statements, not paragraphs of detail.

Workflow

  1. Clone example.html into the user's workspace as the working file.
  2. Replace placeholder content with the user's real headlines, body copy, numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when swapping image placeholders.
  3. Preserve the design system. Never substitute fonts, recolor the palette, restructure the layout grid, or strip decorative elements (corner brackets, paper grain, geometric shapes, illustrated SVGs). They are part of the identity.
  4. Adjust deck length by duplicating layouts. If the user has more content than the demo holds, duplicate an existing slide of the most appropriate layout. If less, drop slides from the bottom. Update page-number labels.
  5. Designing missing layouts: if a slide needs a layout the template doesn't have, design it from scratch using the same fonts, palette, decorative vocabulary, spacing rhythm, and component grammar — never bail to a different template.
  6. Keep the navigation runtime as shipped. If the deck ships an assets/deck-stage.js or inline keyboard handler, leave it intact.

Output contract

Emit between <artifact> tags:

<artifact identifier="zhangzara-bold-poster" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>

Source & license

Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates.

The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at LICENSE and must be redistributed alongside any copy of example.html, template.json, or any vendored assets/ runtime. See template.json for the upstream metadata snapshot.

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