Frontend & UI

design-skills · Terracotta

Clay accent on cream, DM Serif Display headlines, long-form reading.

What it is

A guideline skill for a sun-baked editorial interface: cream #F3E9D8 surfaces, one terracotta #C56A3C accent, DM Serif Display headlines, JetBrains Mono. Tuned for blogs and storytelling.

A sun-baked, clay-toned editorial interface built on warm cream surfaces, ink-brown headlines set in a display serif, and a single terracotta accent.
From the upstream SKILL.md

Why it matters for design

  • One accent color only, so emphasis stays scarce and headlines carry the hierarchy.
  • Warm cream surfaces cut glare in long articles compared with pure white pages.
  • Display serif headlines over ink-brown body text set a clear editorial rhythm.

What it covers

  • Brand
  • Style foundations
  • Rules: do
  • Rules: don’t
  • Component rule expectations
  • Quality gates

How to install

design-skills · Terracotta

  1. Clone the repo.

    git clone https://github.com/bergside/awesome-design-skills
  2. Point Codex at the skill file.

    skills/terracotta/SKILL.md
  3. Then describe the UI you want. Codex follows the skill.

How to run it with Codex

  1. Point Codex at the terracotta and cream tokens before it writes any component.

  2. Ask for anatomy, variants, and states per component, with spacing tokens named explicitly.

  3. Request anti-patterns and migration notes when retrofitting existing inconsistent UI.

Every plugin here is free, open source, and links to its real upstream source.

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Next step

Design with Open Design, without the setup

Install this plugin yourself, or run a whole curated design layer around Codex with Open Design. Bring your own key, own your output.