Merouane Bali
merodev.neta developer-designer's portfolio that opens on a pure-black void with a single pixel-font "Enter" button, gating the experience behind a deliberate retro-terminal threshold and a cyan-tinted, Tailwind-built world beyond it.
Design tokens
- display
- Iceland
- body
- Reckoner
- mono
- Iceland (pixel/arcade feel)
Do / Don't
Reference it for
- The deliberate entry gate: a pure-black void with one pixel-font "Enter" button as a confident, game-start threshold before content.
- Retro-terminal / arcade aesthetic done cleanly: blocky display type (Iceland), hairline outlines, no shadow, no rounding.
- A cyan glow accent (#00FFFF) used sparingly as translucent fills against pure black.
- A character-display-led type system (Iceland, Big Shoulders Display, Reckoner) instead of a neutral grotesque.
- A lean, Tailwind-plus-Cloudflare build with a ready set of utility @keyframes (bounce, shake, slide, spin) for the gated experience.
Do not copy
- The black-void "Enter" gate is a strong personality move that suits a maker showing confidence; on a client whose users need fast access to information, a hard gate hurts conversion.
- The pixel/arcade Iceland face is a brand-defining choice; borrow the threshold idea, not necessarily the retro font.
- The cyan-on-black glow is brand-coded retro-terminal; map it to the client's accent if the retro register does not fit.
Signature moves
black-void entry gate
a pure-black void with a single pixel-font Enter button gates the experience behind a deliberate, game-start threshold before any content.
clean retro-terminal aesthetic
a retro-terminal/arcade register done cleanly: blocky display type (Iceland), hairline outlines, no shadow and no rounding (radius 0px), with a sparing cyan glow (#00FFFF) as translucent fills.
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