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+# Sci-Fi Clean
+
+A minimalist futurist theme in off-white with technical blue and a signal-orange accent. Thin blueprint lines, mono numerals, and spec furniture give it the calm of a mission-control readout. It reads precise and technical, and it stays quiet where a product deserves to speak for itself.
+
+## Good for
+
+We built Sci-Fi Clean for hardware and research teams. Treat these as starting points, not limits. If the mood fits your product, use it:
+
+- AI and robotics product sites
+- Aerospace and hardware companies
+- R&D labs and biotech
+- Developer platforms and technical documentation
+
+## What you get
+
+- Four color presets, each with a tuned light mode and a tuned dark mode: Flightline, Cleanroom, Signal Cyan, and Graphite Lab.
+- Space Grotesk headings, Inter body, and JetBrains Mono for readouts, bundled and ready. Fonts stay admin-controlled, so you can swap them from the typography settings.
+- Four persona blocks: a technical spec sheet, a benchmark comparison table, a live telemetry grid, and a changelog console.
+- A demo site that installs when you activate the theme: a home page, an about page, a short blog, and a contact page whose form emails your admins.
+- Every core block restyled to match, plus a themed login screen and a themed 404 page.
+
+## Install
+
+Install from the BlockNinja registry, then pick a preset and assign your fonts in the admin. Activate the demo content if you want a fully dressed starting point.