Styleguide Easterhegg 2025

This page and subpages are meant to guide you through our design. While we do propose some rules, we generally don't want to restrict you to much in creating something. So for most design properties, if one doesn't work for your use-case, then try and adapt that property to make it work for you. This style guide is supposed to help you and not prevent you from being creative.

Design Idea

The design aims to imitate the style of 80s' retro and neon signs. During the design process, we interenally used keywords like "Tokyo Nightcity", "Neon", "Glitchy" and "Tron" to describe our ideas, and we hope this carries over.

We primarily focused on the dark theme as the primary design characteristics are the neon-glow and neon-sign-font which you can see in the headings, title image and navigation elements. But we did also create a light mode to make content more accesible and available for more people. But because the neon-effect doesn't really work on a bright background out of the box, we tried to instead convey the look of turned off neon signs or neon signs under daylight.

We recommend reading through all sections linked to in the site's navigation, but if you just want a quick overview of design elements, you can focus on the demopage containing a preview of most things. Most pages also include more detailed explanations for our design decisions.

Credit and Disclaimer

We (kritzl, traumweh & Schrottkatze) created this design and guide through many months of hard work. And considering the current hype reguarding "AI" (LLMs & GenAI), we want to make it clear, that we didn't use any such tooling at any point in the design process. All work was done by living beings.

This is also why we would kindly ask you to consider not to use LLMs or GenAI yourself when creating something for this event. These tools are built on theft and actively harm all creative industries. Not to mention how devastating they are for our planet. Instead, maybe take this as motivation for you to learn how to achieve the desired thing yourself, or connect with the community. There are many artists who'd be happy to help you create something incredible.