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Synthwave Grid

80s outrun: a striped neon sun, an endless scrolling grid, chrome type and VHS glitch cuts.

16:9Fast pace7.5snostalgicneoncinematic

Retro-futurist style for synth plugins, retro games, music drops and night events. A magenta-to-gold striped sun sinks behind wireframe mountains while a neon perspective grid scrolls toward camera; chrome italic display type and a glowing script subtitle punch in on VHS tracking glitches, under scanlines and a fake camcorder HUD.

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Palette

night#07021a

dusk#1d0640

plum#5a0f6e

magenta#ff3fd8

hotPink#ff2a8a

orange#ff9d3c

gold#fff07a

cyan#2ff3ff

chromeShadow#3b0b62

Type

Display: Bungee 400Chrome titles 170–230px, skewX(-10deg), gradient clipped to text with a white 2px stroke
Body: Mr Dafoe 400Neon script subtitles 120–190px, rotated -7°, overlapping the chrome title's lower right
Accent: Monoton 400Cyan neon-tube feature words 150–170px, one per beat
Mono: VT323 400Camcorder HUD 46–54px and tracked caption bands, uppercase, letter-spacing 0.32em

Motion

TitleSlam: expo.out
Shine: power2.inOut
ScriptWrite: power2.out
SunDrift: sine.inOut
Grid: none (linear scroll)
Average shot: 1.5s

Atmospheric opener (~1.7s) while the sun rises, a 2.7s hero title hold, then rapid 0.55s feature beats, and a chrome end card. Grid, sun stripes and timecode never stop moving.

Transitions and text

VHS glitch cut: 0.13s of hard x/skew jitter on the whole world, screen-blended colour bars and a tracking-noise band sweeping down
hard cut between feature words, each with its own mini glitch
chrome squash-slam: scaleX 1.7 / scaleY 0.6 → 1 with expo.out in 0.6s
specular shine sweeps across the chrome gradient (background-position) over ~1s
script subtitle writes on with a left-to-right clip-path inset wipe
neon words punch in from scale 1.35 and their glow flickers up

Style guide your agent follows

Fixed set: sky gradient #07021a → #5a0f6e → #ff5f9e with the horizon at y=640, seeded starfield, sun r≈290 with a #fff07a → #ff9d3c → #ff2a8a gradient and black mask bands (3→27px tall) scrolling upward, wireframe mountains in #12042b with #ff3fd8 ridges and #2ff3ff struts.
The floor is one wide div with transform: perspective(520px) rotateX(78deg), transform-origin 50% 0, magenta vertical and cyan horizontal 4px gradient lines; tween only its background-position (linear, never stops). Add a pink haze at the horizon.
Chrome type: Bungee, skewX(-10deg) on an inner span, text-clipped gradient #f8fcff → #9cd9ff → #24165c (hard horizon at 51%) → #ff7fd4 → white, white 2px stroke, a #3b0b62 7px drop shadow plus magenta bloom. Sweep a white specular band across it.
Script subtitle in Mr Dafoe, pale pink #ffe1f6 with layered #ff4fd8 / #ff2fa0 glows, rotated -7°, revealed with a clip-path wipe. Feature words in Monoton cyan neon, one per 0.5–0.6s beat.
Every cut is a VHS glitch (≤0.16s): world x ±34px + skewX ±9°, colour bars in screen blend, a tracking-noise band sweeping down. Keep a camcorder HUD (VT323: ▶ PLAY, running SP timecode, date, channel number that changes per cut) outside the glitching layer.
Always overlay 2px scanlines (28% black) and a vignette. Avoid flat backgrounds, sans-serif body copy and pastel colours.