Red Black Zine Deck
A photocopied-zine deck that shouts and still stays readable.
Turns your AI into a deck designer that builds a presentation in a red-and-black photocopied zine style — cut-and-paste type, halftone textures, and loud layouts that still stay readable.
Install it in 3 steps
No sign-up. No CLI tools. Pick your AI, copy one line, paste it over.
Prefer doing it yourself? Buy the skill ($4.99), download the ZIP from your checkout confirmation, unzip it into the directory shown above, restart your AI session — same result. Already bought it? Your AI assistant can download it for you.
What’s inside
One SKILL.md (the playbook) + one starter template. A preview:
Red Black Zine Deck
When to use
- You're presenting something with attitude — a punk project, an indie launch, a manifesto, a community talk — and a corporate template would kill it
- Your deck needs to feel handmade and urgent: photocopied flyers, cut-and-paste letters, marker annotations
- You're making slides for a zine fair, a DIY workshop, a gig poster talk, or any room where polish reads as insincere
- A standard deck has flattened your message into identical bullet slides and you need each slide to land like a page torn from a fanzine
- You want a deck that also works printed and photocopied in black and white — the red becomes black, the design still holds
Workflow
- Pick the message and the arc (input: topic → output: slide outline)
A zine deck is a rant with structure: write the one thing the audience must walk away believing, then outline 8–14 slides that build to it — opener (the provocation), three to five evidence or story slides, one slide that says the quiet part loud, and a closer with the ask. One idea per slide, in as few words as you can manage: a zine slide with a paragraph is a zine slide nobody reads. If a slide needs more than 25 words, it needs to be two slides or a handout. - Set the zine system (input: outline → output: style rules)
Three colors only: paper white (or off-white), true black, and one loud red. Rules: black is the structure (borders, bars, rules, body text), red is the emphasis (headlines, underlines, circles, arrows — never whole paragraphs), white is the breathing room. Type: one heavy condensed display face for headlines (all caps, tight, sometimes slightly rotated), one plain readable face for the few body lines. Texture: halftone dots, photocopy grain, and torn-paper edges as background seasoning at low strength — never under text. Write the rules down before building slide one; a zine deck with five different reds is a mess, not a style. - Lay out each slide like a page (input: style rules + outline → output: slides)
Build each slide as a fanzine page, not a template fill: a giant headline ripped across the top or diagonally, one image or one block of short text, and a red annotation — a circle, an arrow, a hand-written-style note — pointing at the thing that matters. Vary the layouts deliberately: full-bleed headline, split page, collage corner, one-word slide. Keep one anchor consistent (same footer strip, same page number corner, same red rule) so the variety reads as a system, not chaos. Leave real white space on every slide; a zine page crammed edge to edge is a wall, not a shout.
Template preview
Red Black Zine Deck — Build Template
A rant with structure. Fill this in before building slide one.
Message + arc
One thing the audience must walk away believing: {one sentence}
The ask (final slide): {what you want them to do}
Slide outline (8–14 slides, one idea each):
Zine system (write it down, then obey it)
- Colors (3 only): white {paper white / off-white #___} · black #___ · red #___ (one red!)
- Red role: emphasis only — headlines, circles, arrows, underlines. Never whole paragraphs.
- Black role: structure — borders, bars, rules, body text.
- Display type: {heavy condensed face, ALL CAPS, tight, slight rotation OK}
