Youssef 7a890a365d Carnival rework, sharper anti-slop guards, and three new worked examples
Carnival: fixed the three palette drops whose second accent failed contrast,
tightened the display tracking, and added section-rhythm, alignment, and
drop-selection guidance so the theme lands well-aligned and readable by
default. Lightened and tightened the Carnival headers on the landing.

Anti-slop guards (skill references): heading-to-body alignment coherence as a
principle rather than a rigid rule; centered overlays and command palettes must
center via their container; and a hero headline is never only a number, a lead
figure always pairs with words.

Worked Examples: added three generated pages to the landing carousel, a
small-batch honey farm, a risograph print fair, and an experimental type
studio, after fixing their nav centering and section alignment.

Media: removed the Soroe example card along with the unused scroll-videos,
poster stills, and orphaned thumbnails it left behind, and bumped the asset
cache-bust so the restyled CSS reloads.
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Hallmark

A design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex that refuses to look AI-generated.

Live demo →  ·  twenty themes  ·  four verbs  ·  press T to cycle.

Made by Together AI.

Hallmark, a design skill that refuses to look AI-generated

Hallmark picks a macrostructure for the brief, dresses it in one of twenty themes, runs fifty-seven slop-test gates plus a pre-emit self-critique, and refuses the on-distribution defaults every LLM was trained into. Two pages by Hallmark for two different briefs feel like different sites, not colour-swaps of the same template.


Four verbs

Verb What it does
(default) Build new UI. Picks a macrostructure, applies the rule-set, runs the slop test before handing back.
hallmark audit <target> Score existing code against the anti-patterns. Punch list, no edits.
hallmark redesign <target> Throw out the structure, keep copy + IA + brand, rebuild with a different fingerprint.
hallmark study <screenshot | URL> Extract the DNA from a design you admire: macrostructure, type-pairing, colour anchor. Refuses pixel-clones and paid templates. Optionally emits a portable design.md for handoff to other AI tools.

Different briefs, different shapes

Each generated by exercising the skill on a different brief. The skill picks differently every time. No two share a macrostructure or theme.

Tally SaaS product page hero Wayfare travel booking hero Slow Pour coffee subscription hero BananaStudio creative studio hero
Tally
SaaS · modern-minimal
Wayfare
Travel · atmospheric
Slow Pour
Coffee subscription
BananaStudio
Studio · playful
Anya Reis personal site hero NAJM Moroccan fashion brand hero Søroe ceramics studio hero Hyperlane developer infrastructure hero
Anya Reis
Personal site
NAJM
Fashion brand
Søroe
Ceramics studio
Hyperlane
Dev infrastructure

Each page is self-contained HTML + CSS, stamped with its macrostructure in the CSS comment. Browse the full set at usehallmark.com or under site/_tests/.


Custom NEW

Most briefs route to the catalog. But when a brief carries real creative intent (a named brand colour, a vibe the catalog can't carry, or a layout that is the point) Hallmark switches to Custom and designs the whole page from first principles: a made-to-measure OKLCH palette, a free-font pairing, and a structure no catalog theme would produce. Same fifty-seven slop-test gates. No template underneath.

One brief, one page that looks like nothing else in the catalog:

The Mend Assembly, a repair-café manifesto poster designed from scratch with Custom

The Mend Assembly  ·  a repair-café manifesto poster, designed from first principles

Custom stays a quiet branch. Vanilla briefs never see it. The protocol lives in custom-theme.md.


Install

npx skills add nutlope/hallmark

Re-run any time to update. Or copy SKILL.md + references/ into:

  • Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/hallmark/
  • Cursor: .cursor/rules/hallmark.mdc (body of SKILL.md, no frontmatter)
  • Codex: ~/.codex/skills/hallmark/ (personal) or .codex/skills/hallmark/ (project-scoped)

The rule-set lives in SKILL.md and references/. Worked examples in docs/recipes.md and docs/study-examples.md.


Licence

MIT. Use it, fork it, ship it.

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