Find the VI anchor
Start with the mark, name, audience, color cues, and the type of site being built.
Visual Taste Lab helps agents stop making generic pages. It audits visual identity first, turns it into a design language, then applies that language to static pages, product demos, and brand systems.
Static GitHub Pages demo. No external runtime. No real client names.
The skill separates visual identity from page construction. Instead of asking an agent to make a page nicer, it gives the agent a compact system for deciding what nicer means.
Start with the mark, name, audience, color cues, and the type of site being built.
Primary, support, accent, surface, line, and semantic colors each get a job.
Company pages, product pages, and content brands need different proof patterns.
Typography, spacing, cards, buttons, tables, and CTAs all speak the same language.
These are invented examples for public preview. They show how the workflow changes tone, layout, proof, and CTA behavior for different page goals.
A stable, credibility-first page for a fictional operations studio. The layout foregrounds who the team is, what it organizes, and how visitors can evaluate fit.
A company site should explain the organization before it sells a single feature: positioning, capability boundaries, working model, and contact path.
A direct, action-led page for a fictional dashboard tool. The visual system supports fast comprehension, active states, and a clear primary conversion.
A product page should quickly answer what it does, how it behaves, why it is useful, and which action the visitor should take next.
An editorial, rhythm-led page for a fictional publishing studio. The system relies on typography, spacing, and memorable content frames instead of sales-page density.
A content brand page should create recognition through voice, editorial structure, image rhythm, and restrained calls to explore.
The workflow is intentionally small enough for coding agents to follow inside a repo, but structured enough to avoid one-off decoration.
Collect the mark, name, existing colors, audience, content shape, and whether the page is a company site, product page, content brand, or another interface type.
Define typography, color roles, spacing, surfaces, cards, buttons, proof blocks, imagery, motion, and anti-patterns before rebuilding the page.
Update shared tokens and components first, then tighten the page structure so the visual decisions stay consistent across desktop and mobile.
Check the rendered page in desktop and narrow viewports, confirm it is non-empty, readable, and free of horizontal overflow.
Paste a goal like this into a coding-agent session with the Visual Taste Lab skill installed. Add screenshots, links, or brand notes when you have them.
/goal Use $visual-taste-lab to improve this website visually.
First distill a reusable design language from the repo, screenshots, links, and brand notes.
Start with a VI audit:
- logo or wordmark
- primary, support, accent, neutral, and semantic colors
- site type and audience
- typography, spacing, surfaces, components, CTA rules, and anti-patterns
Then apply the design language to the key pages.
Keep claims honest. Keep mobile clean. Verify with screenshots.