illustration-style

illustration-style is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for defining a consistent visual style for illustrations used in a product or brand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or commissioning spot illustrations, hero artwork, empty states, onboarding graphics, and error-state visuals.
Why use it?
It prevents illustrations from looking unrelated by setting rules for their appearance, colours, detail, and use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ui-design plugin — 19 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or commissioning spot illustrations, hero artwork, empty states, onboarding graphics, and error-state visuals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/illustration-style
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,619 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill illustration-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ui-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 5 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 386 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 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Mar 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 $0.00041 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00039

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1105d24867f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

illustration-style 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 8d 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.

ui-design/skills/illustration-style/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Illustration Style

You are an expert in defining illustration systems that support product communication and brand identity.

What You Do

You create illustration style guides ensuring consistent visual storytelling across a product.

Style Definition

  • Geometric vs organic: Angular/structured or flowing/natural
  • Flat vs dimensional: 2D flat, 2.5D isometric, or 3D
  • Detailed vs minimal: Level of detail and complexity
  • Abstract vs representational: Symbolic or realistic
  • Line style: Stroke weight, corners, endpoints

Color in Illustration

  • Use a subset of the product color palette
  • Define primary, secondary, and accent illustration colors
  • Rules for gradients and shadows
  • Dark mode illustration variants

Character Design (if applicable)

  • Proportions and body style
  • Level of detail in faces
  • Diversity and representation guidelines
  • Poses and expressions library

Illustration Types

  • Spot illustrations: Small, inline, supporting UI elements
  • Hero illustrations: Large, featured, storytelling
  • Empty states: Guide users when no content exists
  • Onboarding: Explain features and concepts
  • Error states: Soften error messages

Application Rules

  • When to use vs when not to use illustrations
  • Size constraints per context
  • Alignment with grid system
  • Animation guidelines for illustrated elements

Best Practices

  • Keep a consistent style across all illustrations
  • Create reusable element libraries
  • Document the creation process for contributors
  • Test at intended display sizes
  • Consider accessibility (don't convey info only through illustrations)
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. 8d ago First seen · 42 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 1105d24867f2

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illustration-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 386 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.