design-visual-design

design-visual-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from j4flmao/agent-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (7,360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to visual design, including colour, typography, layout, spacing, proportion, and visual hierarchy—the way design directs attention. It helps turn these principles into a practical design specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define colour palettes, type scales, spacing systems, layout rules, and accessibility requirements for interfaces.
Why use it?
It helps identify why an interface looks unclear or inconsistent and provides a structured way to improve its appearance and readability.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to define colour palettes, type scales, spacing systems, layout rules, and accessibility requirements for interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/visual-design
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.

Any agent
npx skills add j4flmao/agent-skills --skill visual-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/j4flmao/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,360 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
  • 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 $0.00064 $0.07360
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.03680
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00736

Measured 9d ago against content hash 92c426a96ded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-visual-design 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 9d 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/design/visual-design/SKILL.md · 597 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 597 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Design

Purpose

Apply visual design principles — color theory, typography, layout grids, spacing systems, visual hierarchy, and aesthetic consistency — to create interfaces that are both beautiful and functional. Visual design serves usability: every decision about color, type, spacing, or layout should support clarity, readability, and user goals.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "visual design", "color theory", "typography", "layout", "visual hierarchy", "spacing", "proportion", "UI aesthetics", "make it look better", "design polish", "visual polish".

Input Context

  • Product type (dashboard, marketing site, mobile app, data-heavy tool)
  • Existing brand assets or design system tokens
  • Target user demographics (age, accessibility needs, cultural context)
  • Platform constraints (responsive breakpoints, screen sizes, rendering engine)
  • Brand personality (professional, playful, luxurious, minimalist)

Output Artifact

Visual design specification with color system, typography scale, spacing grid, layout principles, and accessibility requirements.

Completion Criteria

  • Color palette defined with primary, secondary, neutral, semantic colors
  • All color combinations meet WCAG AA contrast ratios (4.5:1 text)
  • Typography scale established (typeface, size, weight, line-height, letter-spacing)
  • Spacing system defined (4px or 8px base unit with consistent scale)
  • Layout grid specified (columns, gutters, margins, breakpoints)
  • Visual hierarchy defined (size, color, position, whitespace strategy)
  • Accessibility requirements documented (focus indicators, reduced motion, text spacing)

Max Response Length

200 lines of spec, patterns, and configuration.

Framework/Methodology

Visual Design Decision Tree

What is the primary design goal?
├── Clarity and readability → Typography-first approach
│   Select readable typeface, generous line-height, strong hierarchy
├── Brand expression and emotion → Color-first approach
│   Start with brand palette, extend to UI semantic colors
├── Data density and precision → Layout-first approach
│   Establish grid system, information density rules, spacing constraints
└── Engagement and delight → Motion + visual hierarchy
    Leading lines, focal points, depth through shadow/layering

Read the full file on GitHub · 597 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 597 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 92c426a96ded

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-visual-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository j4flmao/agent-skills (23 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 7,360 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 2026-09-03.

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