aesthetic

A guide to designing attractive and usable interfaces, covering visual hierarchy, typography, color, spacing, design systems, accessibility, and interaction details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing web interfaces, studying inspiration, creating design systems, improving accessibility, or adding animations.
Why use it?
It helps turn interface ideas into designs that are both visually clear and practical to use.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/duongductrong/cursor-kit/skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duongductrong/cursor-kit

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 143 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,293 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00143 $0.01293
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00129

Measured 2d ago against content hash c332f5bb505a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aesthetic scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/skills/aesthetic/SKILL.mdc · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aesthetic

Create aesthetically beautiful interfaces by following proven design principles and systematic workflows.

When to Use This Skill

Use when:

  • Building or designing user interfaces
  • Analyzing designs from inspiration websites (Dribbble, Mobbin, Behance)
  • Generating design images and evaluating aesthetic quality
  • Implementing visual hierarchy, typography, color theory
  • Adding micro-interactions and animations
  • Creating design documentation and style guides
  • Need guidance on accessibility and design systems

Core Framework: Four-Stage Approach

1. BEAUTIFUL: Understanding Aesthetics

Study existing designs, identify patterns, extract principles. AI lacks aesthetic sense—standards must come from analyzing high-quality examples and aligning with market tastes.

Reference: references/design-principles.md - Visual hierarchy, typography, color theory, white space principles.

2. RIGHT: Ensuring Functionality

Beautiful designs lacking usability are worthless. Study design systems, component architecture, accessibility requirements.

Reference: references/design-principles.md - Design systems, component libraries, WCAG accessibility standards.

3. SATISFYING: Micro-Interactions

Incorporate subtle animations with appropriate timing (150-300ms), easing curves (ease-out for entry, ease-in for exit), sequential delays.

Reference: references/micro-interactions.md - Duration guidelines, easing curves, performance optimization.

4. PEAK: Storytelling Through Design

Elevate with narrative elements—parallax effects, particle systems, thematic consistency. Use restraint: "too much of anything isn't good."

Reference: references/storytelling-design.md - Narrative elements, scroll-based storytelling, interactive techniques.

Workflows

Workflow 1: Capture & Analyze Inspiration

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 122 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A c332f5bb505a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aesthetic is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository duongductrong/cursor-kit (21 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 143 tokens to every session and 1,293 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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