# Synthwave

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Resource base: https://mejohnc.org (or the preview host used to obtain this file).

A retro-futurist visual vocabulary associated with synthwave music, drawing heavily on imagined 1980s nightscapes. It differs from vaporwave's collage and corporate nostalgia.

## Visual family
Digital nostalgia. Editorial family: shared visual vocabulary, not a claim of common origin.

## Visual cues
- Neon horizon
- Sunset bands
- Perspective grid

## Build it
1. Keep the horizon in an illustration.
2. Choose two neon accents.
3. Use a dark solid surface for track and event details.

## Example
A concert page with a sunset poster and a clean date-and-ticket panel.

## Typography
An italic or angular display title can suggest speed. Use solid, unglowing text for event details.

## Practical consequences
- Starting projects: Portfolio, Publication, Store. These are suggestions, not restrictions.
- Reading/layout: spacious; bold visual emphasis.
- Asset work: A horizon or poster illustration carries the genre reference.
- Complexity: medium. Allow time for a coherent decorative or image layer and responsive checks.

## Limits
Continuous glowing animation, unreadable outlined text, or calling it an original 1980s interface standard.

## Reading the collected reference board
The board includes sunset, palm, neon, and retro display cues. Separate the imagined 1980s atmosphere from the more recent music and graphic culture using it.

## Context
Contemporary screen interpretation. The recipe is a modern web adaptation.
No single inventor or exact founding date is asserted for this interpretation.

## Implementation files
- [page](/territories/synthwave/)
- [guide](/territories/synthwave/guide.md)
- [brief](/territories/synthwave/brief.md)
- [tokens](/territories/synthwave/tokens.json)
- [checks](/territories/synthwave/checklist.md)
- [example](/territories/synthwave/example/)
- [versionedGuide](/territories/v1/synthwave/guide.md)
- [versionedTokens](/territories/v1/synthwave/tokens.json)