brand-visual-language

brand-visual-language is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making an interface’s visual personality consistent through shapes, typography, corner rounding, and icons. For example, rounded shapes can feel friendly, while sharp shapes can feel technical or serious.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a design system or choosing typography, icon styles, corner-rounding rules, and component shapes.
Why use it?
Consistent visual choices help users recognise a brand’s tone before reading the text. They also prevent individual components from looking like they belong to different products.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Read the real shape language, don't infer it (dembrandt engine, optional).** For a brand that already ships a product, extract its actual radius, type, and to.

not rated 54repo +2 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 68 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when creating a design system or choosing typography, icon styles, corner-rounding rules, and component shapes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/brand-visual-language

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,358 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 20 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 20 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00068 $0.02358
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01179
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00236

Measured 13d ago against content hash d05e6d03d143, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-visual-language 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 13d 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.

skills/brand-visual-language/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand Visual Language

Visual shape communicates personality. A rounded corner says something different to the user than a sharp one — and that message arrives before they read a single word. The shapes in typography, border-radius, and iconography should tell a consistent story.

Shape Language

Shape Tone Associated with
Rounded, pill-shaped Friendly, approachable, playful, modern Consumer apps, health, kids, lifestyle, social
Softly rounded (8–12px) Professional, warm, accessible SaaS, productivity, general B2B
Lightly rounded (2–4px) Precise, structured, efficient Enterprise tools, finance, data platforms
Sharp / no radius Technical, serious, authoritative Developer tools, security, industrial

Every component — cards, inputs, modals, badges — should follow the same radius logic.

Radius for Large Surfaces

The perceived "roundedness" of an element changes with its scale. A radius that looks soft on a button may look sharp on a large container.

  • Large Cards & Modals: Typically use a larger radius than buttons (e.g., if buttons are 4px, large cards might be 8px or 12px) to maintain a consistent visual tone.
  • Wells and Background Sections: For large background areas or "wells," a smaller radius (2px–8px) is often used to provide structure and define the region without making it feel like a "floating" component. This keeps the focus on the content within, rather than the container itself.

Reading Shape from an Existing Brand

Before choosing a radius, look at the brand's existing materials:

  • Logo: Is it rounded, geometric, or angular? The logo's shapes are intentional brand decisions.
  • Product photography or illustration style: Rounded, bubbly illustrations signal a different personality than sharp, technical diagrams.
  • Typography: A geometric sans-serif (Circular, Futura) reads differently than a humanist sans (Inter, Söhne) or a sharp editorial serif.
  • Competitor landscape: Sometimes being the slightly softer option in a sharp market, or the more structured option in a playful market, is the differentiator.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 13d ago First seen · 180 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A d05e6d03d143

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brand-visual-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository dembrandt/dembrandt-skills (54 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,358 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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