What type of presentations is Soft Editorial best suited for?

Soft Editorial is ideal for creating elegant and literary presentations, such as consulting deliverables, advisory decks, and long-form brand stories.

Can I customize the fonts or colors in the Soft Editorial template?

No, it is recommended to preserve the design system by not altering the fonts, colors, or layout structures to maintain the intended aesthetic.

How do I adjust the number of slides in my presentation?

You can adjust the length of your deck by duplicating existing layouts for additional content or removing slides from the bottom if you have less content.

Is this skill suitable for high-impact marketing presentations?

No, Soft Editorial is not designed for high-impact presentations that require bold visuals; its design is intentionally quiet and subdued.

What files do I need to clone to use this skill?

You need to clone the `example.html` file and the `assets/` folder to ensure the presentation functions correctly.

Soft Editorial

Name: Soft Editorial
Availability: InStock
Author: nexu-io

Free

Create elegant HTML presentations with a literary touch.

by nexu-io84.9k stars on nexu-io/open-design

Updated Aug 10, 2026

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What Soft Editorial does

Soft Editorial is a specialized HTML presentation deck designed to convey information in a literary and elegant manner. This skill is particularly well-suited for creating consulting deliverables, advisory presentations, and long-form brand stories. The design emphasizes a warm paper aesthetic, utilizing a specific typography and color palette that includes Cormorant Garamond serif and soft hues like sage, blush, and lemon. This makes it ideal for projects that require a sophisticated and unhurried presentation style.

The skill operates by providing a single self-contained HTML deck, which is structured to maintain a consistent design language. Users are guided through a straightforward workflow that involves cloning the provided example HTML and accompanying assets. The template is designed to preserve its identity, meaning that users should not alter the fonts, colors, or layout structures. This ensures that the final output remains true to the original design intent, which is crucial for maintaining brand integrity in professional settings.

To create a presentation, users simply replace placeholder content with their own information, ensuring that the overall design system remains intact. The skill also allows for the adjustment of slide length by duplicating existing layouts, making it flexible for various content needs. However, it is important to note that while the deck is versatile, it is not intended for presentations that require high visual impact or bold design elements, as its aesthetic is intentionally subdued.

Overall, Soft Editorial serves as an excellent tool for professionals in consulting, research, and creative fields who need to produce high-quality, elegant presentations without compromising on design consistency. Its focus on a literary style makes it a unique choice for anyone looking to elevate their presentation game.

When to use it

Use this skill when you need to create sophisticated presentations that require a literary and elegant design approach.

When not to use it

Avoid using this skill for presentations that require bold visuals or high-impact design elements, as its aesthetic is intentionally subdued.

What you can build with it

Consulting Deliverables

Create polished presentations for client meetings that require a sophisticated and elegant design.

Brand Storytelling

Develop longform narratives for brands that need to communicate their story in a literary and warm manner.

Advisory Presentations

Produce advisory decks for stakeholders that convey information clearly while maintaining a high level of formality.

How to install Soft Editorial

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design/html-ppt-zhangzara-soft-editorial --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.

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI, and the reference implementation of Agent Skills. Drop a skill folder into ~/.claude/skills and Claude Code loads it automatically whenever a task matches the skill's description. Claude Code docs

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Written by nexu-io

Soft Editorial

Cormorant Garamond serif on warm paper with sage, blush, and lemon accents.

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: high
Density: low
Slides in demo: 12

Best for

Anything that should feel literary, elegant, and unhurried: editorial features, longform brand stories, gallery / museum decks, advisory deliverables, wedding / lifestyle media, founder essays. Equally good for tech, research, or business decks that want a Sunday-supplement warmth instead of corporate polish.

Avoid for

Decks that need visual heat or punch — the warm-paper palette and Cormorant serif are intentionally quiet.

Workflow

Clone example.html AND the assets/ folder into the user's workspace. This template ships an assets/deck-stage.js runtime (keyboard navigation, stage rendering); the HTML references it as assets/deck-stage.js, so the file must sit next to the cloned HTML or that path will 404 in the generated artifact and navigation will silently break. Inlining the JS into a single <script> block in the HTML is an acceptable alternative when a single self-contained file is preferred.
Replace placeholder content with the user's real headlines, body copy, numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when swapping image placeholders.
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.
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.
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.
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-soft-editorial" 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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