Techniques
Gold-leaf radiance border
A double-border effect simulating gold-leaf application around palace-square cartouches — a thin gold inner border with a soft gold outer glow.
.element {
border: 1px solid #D4A938;
box-shadow:
0 0 0 1px rgba(212, 169, 56, 0.3),
0 3px 10px rgba(212, 169, 56, 0.18);
}
Mineral-pigment gradient band
Simulates the concentric color bands of a mandala's protective rings — vermilion fading through saffron to the indigo ground, like cinnabar pigment thinning at the edges.
.element {
background: linear-gradient(
180deg,
#B82A1F 0%,
#E08A2A 40%,
rgba(26, 39, 82, 0) 100%
);
opacity: 0.85;
}
Cotton-canvas texture overlay
A subtle noise texture simulating the sized-cotton canvas ground of a thangka scroll, preventing surfaces from reading as flat digital planes.
.element {
position: relative;
}
.element::after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg width='4' height='4' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%3E%3Crect width='1' height='1' x='1' y='1' fill='%23F2E9D8' opacity='0.03'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
pointer-events: none;
border-radius: inherit;
}