industrial-brutalist-ui

A design guide for building websites with rigid grids, oversized type, practical colors, and deliberately worn or screen-like visual effects. It suits dashboards, portfolios, and editorial sites inspired by industrial documents and military terminals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing data dashboards, portfolios, or editorial websites with an industrial-brutalist look. It guides layout, typography, colors, and effects such as halftone patterns and CRT scanlines.
Why use it?
It helps create a clear visual direction for information-heavy interfaces that should feel mechanical and functional instead of like a typical consumer app.

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/creativedswork/dscode/brutalist-skill
Any agent
npx skills add creativedswork/dscode --skill brutalist-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/creativedswork/dscode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,928 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00057 $0.01928
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00964
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00193

Measured 2d ago against content hash fffbaac8597f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

industrial-brutalist-ui 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to industrial-brutalist-ui — 0 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.

.dscode/skills/brutalist-skill/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Industrial Brutalism & Tactical Telemetry UI

1. Skill Meta

Name: Industrial Brutalism & Tactical Telemetry Interface Engineering Description: Advanced proficiency in architecting web interfaces that synthesize mid-century Swiss Typographic design, industrial manufacturing manuals, and retro-futuristic aerospace/military terminal interfaces. This discipline requires absolute mastery over rigid modular grids, extreme typographic scale contrast, purely utilitarian color palettes, and the programmatic simulation of analog degradation (halftones, CRT scanlines, bitmap dithering). The objective is to construct digital environments that project raw functionality, mechanical precision, and high data density, deliberately discarding conventional consumer UI patterns.

2. Visual Archetypes

The design system operates by merging two distinct but highly compatible visual paradigms. Pick ONE per project and commit to it. Do not alternate or mix both modes within the same interface.

2.1 Swiss Industrial Print

Derived from 1960s corporate identity systems and heavy machinery blueprints.

  • Characteristics: High-contrast light modes (newsprint/off-white substrates). Reliance on monolithic, heavy sans-serif typography. Unforgiving structural grids outlined by visible dividing lines. Aggressive, asymmetric use of negative space punctuated by oversized, viewport-bleeding numerals or letterforms. Heavy use of primary red as an alert/accent color.

2.2 Tactical Telemetry & CRT Terminal

Derived from classified military databases, legacy mainframes, and aerospace Heads-Up Displays (HUDs).

  • Characteristics: Dark mode exclusivity. High-density tabular data presentation. Absolute dominance of monospaced typography. Integration of technical framing devices (ASCII brackets, crosshairs). Application of simulated hardware limitations (phosphor glow, scanlines, low bit-depth rendering).

3. Typographic Architecture

Typography is the primary structural and decorative infrastructure. Imagery is secondary. The system demands extreme variance in scale, weight, and spacing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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 · 93 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A fffbaac8597f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

industrial-brutalist-ui is a skill published in the GitHub repository creativedswork/dscode (10 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,928 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to industrial-brutalist-ui, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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