minimalist-ui
Creates interfaces with a minimalist editorial style. It uses soft colors, typographic contrast, and clean layouts, without gradients or heavy shadows.
What it does
This agent creates clean and elegant website layouts, inspired by magazines and modern workspace platforms. It uses soft colors, high-contrast fonts, and organizes content into neat blocks.
When to use it
- ✓To create a personal website or portfolio with a professional look.
- ✓When designing the interface for a work tool or application.
- ✓To present information clearly and organized, like in a blog or news site.
Example of what to ask your AI
“Create a layout for a photographer's portfolio website, using organized blocks and warm colors.”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
The agent follows specific design rules to choose fonts, colors, and element placement. It avoids generic designs and focuses on clarity and elegance, similar to a magazine page.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill minimalist-uiOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexu-io/open-design/main/skills/minimalist-skill/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
Protocol: Premium Utilitarian Minimalism UI Architect
1. Protocol Overview
Name: Premium Utilitarian Minimalism & Editorial UI Description: An advanced frontend engineering directive for generating highly refined, ultra-minimalist, "document-style" web interfaces analogous to top-tier workspace platforms. This protocol strictly enforces a high-contrast warm monochrome palette, bespoke typographic hierarchies, meticulous structural macro-whitespace, bento-grid layouts, and an ultra-flat component architecture with deliberate muted pastel accents. It actively rejects standard generic SaaS design trends.
2. Absolute Negative Constraints (Banned Elements)
The AI must strictly avoid the following generic web development defaults:
- DO NOT use the "Inter", "Roboto", or "Open Sans" typefaces.
- DO NOT use generic, thin-line icon libraries like "Lucide", "Feather", or standard "Heroicons".
- DO NOT use Tailwind's default heavy drop shadows (e.g.,
shadow-md,shadow-lg,shadow-xl). Shadows must be practically non-existent or heavily customized to be ultra-diffuse and low opacity (< 0.05). - DO NOT use primary colored backgrounds for large elements or sections (e.g., no bright blue, green, or red hero sections).
- DO NOT use gradients, neon colors, or 3D glassmorphism (beyond subtle navbar blurs).
- DO NOT use
rounded-full(pill shapes) for large containers, cards, or primary buttons. - DO NOT use emojis anywhere in code, markup, text content, headings, or alt text. Replace with proper icons or clean SVG primitives.
- DO NOT use generic placeholder names like "John Doe", "Acme Corp", or "Lorem Ipsum". Use realistic, contextual content.
- DO NOT use AI copywriting clichés: "Elevate", "Seamless", "Unleash", "Next-Gen", "Game-changer", "Delve". Write plain, specific language.
3. Typographic Architecture
The interface must rely on extreme typographic contrast and premium font selection to establish an editorial feel.
- Primary Sans-Serif (Body, UI, Buttons): Use clean, geometric, or system-native fonts with character. Target:
font-family: 'SF Pro Display', 'Geist Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Switzer', sans-serif. - Editorial Serif (Hero Headings & Quotes): Target:
font-family: 'Lyon Text', 'Newsreader', 'Playfair Display', 'Instrument Serif', serif. Apply tight tracking (letter-spacing: -0.02emto-0.04em) and tight line-height (1.1). - Monospace (Code, Keystrokes, Meta-data): Target:
font-family: 'Geist Mono', 'SF Mono', 'JetBrains Mono', monospace. - Text Colors: Body text must never be absolute black (
#000000). Use off-black/charcoal (#111111or#2F3437) with a generousline-heightof1.6for legibility. Secondary text should be muted gray (#787774).
4. Color Palette (Warm Monochrome + Spot Pastels)
Color is a scarce resource, utilized only for semantic meaning or subtle accents.
- Canvas / Background: Pure White
#FFFFFFor Warm Bone/Off-White#F7F6F3/#FBFBFA. - Primary Surface (Cards):
#FFFFFFor#F9F9F8. - Structural Borders / Dividers: Ultra-light gray
#EAEAEAorrgba(0,0,0,0.06). - Accent Colors: Exclusively use highly desaturated, washed-out pastels for tags, inline code backgrounds, or subtle icon backgrounds.
- Pale Red:
#FDEBEC(Text:#9F2F2D) - Pale Blue:
#E1F3FE(Text:#1F6C9F) - Pale Green:
#EDF3EC(Text:#346538) - Pale Yellow:
#FBF3DB(Text:#956400)
- Pale Red:
5. Component Specifications
- Bento Box Feature Grids:
- Utilize asymmetrical CSS Grid layouts.
- Cards must have exactly
border: 1px solid #EAEAEA. - Border-radius must be crisp:
8pxor12pxmaximum. - Internal padding must be generous (e.g.,
24pxto40px).
- Primary Call-To-Action (Buttons):
- Solid background
#111111, text#FFFFFF. - Slight border-radius (
4pxto6px). No box-shadow. - Hover state should be a subtle color shift to
#333333or a micro-scaletransform: scale(0.98).
- Solid background
- Tags & Status Badges:
- Pill-shaped (
border-radius: 9999px), very small typography (text-xs), uppercase with wide tracking (letter-spacing: 0.05em). - Background must use the defined Muted Pastels.
- Pill-shaped (
- Accordions (FAQ):
- Strip all container boxes. Separate items only with a
border-bottom: 1px solid #EAEAEA. - Use a clean, sharp
+and-icon for the toggle state.
- Strip all container boxes. Separate items only with a
- Keystroke Micro-UIs:
- Render shortcuts as physical keys using
<kbd>tags:border: 1px solid #EAEAEA,border-radius: 4px,background: #F7F6F3, using the Monospace font.
- Render shortcuts as physical keys using
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FAQ
What colors does it use?
It primarily uses shades of white, gray, and black (monochromatic) with touches of very soft pastel colors, like a pale pink or blue, for an extra charm.
Does it use many visual effects?
No, it avoids flashy effects like strong shadows, gradients, or 3D. The focus is on a 'flat' and clean look.
How does it organize content?
It uses a 'bento grid' style, which are like boxes or blocks arranged asymmetrically to present content in a visually interesting and easy-to-read way.
Details
Original description by the author
Clean editorial-style interfaces. Warm monochrome palette, typographic contrast, flat bento grids, muted pastels. No gradients, no heavy shadows.
repo: nexu-io/open-design
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 101k
- Ranking position
- #740
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Updated
- 10/16/2026
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