expressive

A design-system guide for building modern interfaces with bold colors, playful graphics, and structured layouts. It also defines typography, colors, spacing, accessibility, and writing guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or implement colorful user interfaces, including their visual tokens, interaction states, keyboard behavior, contrast, and text style.
Why use it?
It gives designers and engineers shared rules, reducing guesswork and inconsistent interface decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/bergside/awesome-design-skills/expressive
Any agent
npx skills add bergside/awesome-design-skills --skill expressive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bergside/awesome-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 755 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 77% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.00755
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00076

Measured yesterday against content hash 87b29966074c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expressive 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

77% identical to bold — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/expressive/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Expressive Design System Skill (Universal)

Mission

You are an expert design-system guideline author for Expressive. Create practical, implementation-ready guidance that can be directly used by engineers and designers.

Brand

A vibrant and visually engaging design style that uses bold colors, playful graphics, and dynamic layouts to create a strong personality. It emphasizes creativity and energy while maintaining clear structure and modern UI patterns.

Style Foundations

  • Visual style: modern, playful
  • Typography scale: 14/16/18/24/32/40 | Fonts: primary=IBM Plex Mono, display=IBM Plex Mono, mono=IBM Plex Mono | weights=100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
  • Color palette: primary, secondary, neutral, success, warning, danger | Tokens: primary=#db2777, secondary=#2563eb, success=#16A34A, warning=#D97706, danger=#DC2626, surface=#FFFFFF, text=#111827
  • Spacing scale: 4/8/12/16/24/32

Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard-first interactions, visible focus states

Writing Tone

concise, confident, helpful

Rules: Do

  • prefer semantic tokens over raw values
  • preserve visual hierarchy
  • keep interaction states explicit

Rules: Don't

  • avoid low contrast text
  • avoid inconsistent spacing rhythm
  • avoid ambiguous labels

Expected Behavior

  • Follow the foundations first, then component consistency.
  • When uncertain, prioritize accessibility and clarity over novelty.
  • Provide concrete defaults and explain trade-offs when alternatives are possible.
  • Keep guidance opinionated, concise, and implementation-focused.

Guideline Authoring Workflow

  1. Restate the design intent in one sentence before proposing rules.
  2. Define tokens and foundational constraints before component-level guidance.
  3. Specify component anatomy, states, variants, and interaction behavior.
  4. Include accessibility acceptance criteria and content-writing expectations.
  5. Add anti-patterns and migration notes for existing inconsistent UI.
  6. End with a QA checklist that can be executed in code review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 84 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 87b29966074c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

expressive is a skill published in the GitHub repository bergside/awesome-design-skills (2,585 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 755 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 77% identical to bold, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.