# distinctive-frontend

Generates web interfaces with bold visual identity, replacing generic AI palettes and fonts with distinct themes like Cyberpunk, Brutalist, Vaporwave, and Nordic Minimalism.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 588 installs · ★ 27
- Author: podo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/podo/design-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/distinctive-frontend

## What it does

Standard coding assistants tend to spit out predictable layouts: Inter fonts, purple button gradients, flat backgrounds, and zero motion. This skill changes that behavior. It structures generation around four design vectors: high-contrast typography pairings, curated aesthetic palettes, staggered entrance animations, and layered backgrounds with noise or grid meshes.

Under the hood, the skill supplies CSS custom property collections, starter templates in HTML/CSS, React examples with Framer Motion, and an anti-pattern checklist. Picking a theme name prompts the agent to produce components tailored to that specific design system. You cannot blend themes on the fly; each aesthetic is entirely self-contained.

These templates are too experimental for conservative enterprise software or regulated products. Deploying them there requires extensive redesign work. If your project demands standard, conservative UI conventions, use `frontend-design` instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --skill distinctive-frontend -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/distinctive-frontend/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --skill distinctive-frontend -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --skill distinctive-frontend -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install podo/design-agent-skills distinctive-frontend
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --skill distinctive-frontend -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/podo/design-agent-skills --path skills/distinctive-frontend
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add podo/design-agent-skills --skill distinctive-frontend -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/podo/design-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Eliminate generic purple gradients and ubiquitous Inter fonts from generated pages
- Build web components themed around Cyberpunk, Brutalist, Vaporwave, or Nordic Minimalism
- Orchestrate staggered load animations using Framer Motion
- Configure CSS variables for layered backgrounds with mesh gradients and noise

## Example prompts
- Build a profile card using cyberpunk UI with staggered animations
- Create a brutalist frontend analytics dashboard with high-contrast typography
- Apply distinctive frontend to design a landing page in nordic minimalism

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: distinctive-frontend
description: |
  Generates distinctive interfaces that avoid generic AI aesthetics, using extreme
  typography, cohesive themes (Cyberpunk, Brutalist, Vaporwave, Nordic Minimalism),
  orchestrated staggered animations, and layered backgrounds. Originally published
  as Koomook/claude-frontend-skills; installed from a verbatim mirror.
triggers:
  - "distinctive frontend"
  - "cyberpunk UI"
  - "brutalist frontend"
  - "vaporwave design"
  - "nordic minimalism"
das:
  type: skill
  category: design-systems
  upstream: "https://github.com/Zambudio/buenchollo-app"
  upstream_path: ".agents/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md"
  version: latest
  install: false
---

# distinctive-frontend

> Catalogue stub — full skill: [Zambudio/buenchollo-app](https://github.com/Zambudio/buenchollo-app) (mirror of [Koomook/claude-frontend-skills](https://github.com/Koomook/claude-frontend-skills))

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## Decision tree

1. **Is the full skill already installed?**
   - Global: `f=~/.agents/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer"`
   - Project: `f=.agents/skills/distinctive-frontend/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer"`
   - `installed` → the skill is installed as `distinctive-frontend`, invoke it and proceed
   - `pointer` → go to step 2

2. **Detect scope, then install:**

   ```bash
   [ -e ~/.agents/skills/distinctive-frontend ] && echo "global" || echo "project"
   ```

   **Global:**
   ```bash
   npx skills add Zambudio/buenchollo-app --skill distinctive-frontend -g -y
   ```

   **Project:**
   ```bash
   npx skills add Zambudio/buenchollo-app --skill distinctive-frontend -y
   ```
   > **Claude Code:** send a command as a chat message starting with `!` to run it without leaving the conversation.

**Heads-up**

- **License:** MIT (original Koomook/claude-frontend-skills); the mirror repo has no LICENSE file
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## Invoke after install

- Skill name: `distinctive-frontend`
- Trigger phrases: "distinctive frontend", "cyberpunk UI", "brutalist frontend", "vaporwave design", "nordic minimalism"

## What it does
````
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