Retro Terminal Card
Green-on-black terminal aesthetic with a blinking cursor using step-end animation. Perfect for dev tools, documentation, and code-related sites.
Retro Terminal Card the 12th of 20 designs in the 20 CSS Cards with Animations collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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<div class="stage-12">
<div class="card-term">
<div class="term-bar">
<div class="term-dot" style="background: #ff5f57"></div>
<div class="term-dot" style="background: #febc2e"></div>
<div class="term-dot" style="background: #28c840"></div>
</div>
<div class="term-body">
<div class="term-line"><span class="cmd">$ </span>npm install codefronts</div>
<div class="term-line"><span class="out">✓ Packages installed</span></div>
<div class="term-line"><span class="cmd">$ </span>npm run build</div>
<div class="term-line"><span class="out">✓ Built in 0.4s</span></div>
<div class="term-line"><span class="cmd">$ </span><span class="term-cursor"></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div> .card-term {
width: 210px;
border-radius: 8px;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.3);
font-family: var(--ccg-mono);
}
.term-bar {
background: #111;
padding: 6px 10px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.2);
}
.term-dot {
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
border-radius: 50%;
}
.term-body {
background: #050a05;
padding: 14px;
}
.term-line {
font-size: 10.5px;
line-height: 2;
color: var(--ccg-green);
}
.term-line .cmd {
color: rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.5);
}
.term-line .out {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);
}
.term-cursor {
display: inline-block;
width: 7px;
height: 13px;
background: var(--ccg-green);
animation: ccg-blink 0.8s step-end infinite;
vertical-align: middle;
}
/* parent stage backdrop (so the demo renders standalone) */
[class^="stage-"] {
width: 100%;
min-height: 200px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
position: relative;
padding: 2.5rem 1.5rem;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.stage-12 {
background: #050a05;
}
/* gallery vars + keyframes (so the demo renders standalone) */
:root {
--ccg-bg: #0a0a0f;
--ccg-surface: #111118;
--ccg-surface2: #17171f;
--ccg-surface3: #1e1e28;
--ccg-border: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
--ccg-border2: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.13);
--ccg-accent: #7c6cff;
--ccg-pink: #ff6c8a;
--ccg-green: #1ed98a;
--ccg-amber: #f5a84a;
--ccg-cyan: #3de8f5;
--ccg-text: #f0eeff;
--ccg-muted: #6b6987;
--ccg-label: #9896b8;
--ccg-mono: "DM Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
--ccg-sans: "Syne", sans-serif;
}
@keyframes ccg-blink {
0%,
100% {
opacity: 1;
}
50% {
opacity: 0;
}
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.card-term,
.card-term * {
animation: none !important;
}
}