Visual kits for agents that need to design well
Pick what you're building, preview every kit on that surface, and hand your agent a complete visual system — fonts, colors, tokens, and component rules.
Pick what you're building, preview every kit on that surface, and hand your agent a complete visual system — fonts, colors, tokens, and component rules.
A dense, sharp-cornered catalog system built on an almost-white canvas divided by hairline rules into equal columns. Titles are set tight in a bold grotesque; timecodes, dates and index codes sit beside them in small monospace. Category labels run uppercase in muted grey at the far right of each row. Rows of collapsible sections are separated by full-width hairlines with a plus sign as the only affordance. One saturated acid-yellow bar acts as the active/now-playing state and is the sole loud color in an otherwise achromatic field; photographic thumbnails supply the remaining color as warm magenta-to-orange gradient portraits inside small square cards. Nothing is rounded, nothing is shadowed, and a very pale oversized ghost wordmark-scale graphic sits behind the lower right as watermark texture.
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Archive Grid
A complete, agent-ready design system in your brand.
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Archive Grid
Checked per use case for the things that can actually be measured — chart-series distinctness, text contrast, information density. This finds where a kit would break, not whether it matches your taste.
The same kit, applied to real screens. Nothing here is a mockup of a template — every surface is drawn from this kit's own tokens, type and treatments.
The same kit across 3 surfaces.
A complete, agent-ready design system in your brand.
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Learn moreField Notes — No. 42
By Jonas Feld
Design Lead · 8 min read
There is a version of this story that begins with a spreadsheet, and a better one that begins with a walk. The team had spent a quarter arguing about metrics when the answer, as it usually does, arrived by looking at the thing itself.
What follows is less a methodology than a temperament: patient, specific, allergic to the generic. The work improves when the tools disappear.
"A near-white editorial archive layout with hairline column dividers, monospaced metadata, and a single acid-yellow highlight bar."
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Generic output is a layout problem before it is a color problem. These rules ship inside the kit, so the agent building your project reads them too.
Feels like
Not like
7 colors, a type scale, spacing, corners and elevation — the parts your agent gets as tokens.
Type specimen
Inter Tight · Inter
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 & ?!
One command puts the tokens and the rules into your project. Your agent reads them from there.
Install
npx identityforge@latest apply archive-ticker-gridIn a coding agent
Through the Identity Forge MCP server in Claude Code, Cursor or OpenCode.
From the shadcn registry
npx shadcn add /r/archive-ticker-grid.jsonAs plain files
Tokens, themes and DESIGN.md, downloadable below.
Three ways from the same kit: run "npx identityforge@latest apply archive-ticker-grid" with the CLI to write the tokens and DESIGN.md into your project, fetch it through the Identity Forge MCP server inside Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenCode, or install from the shadcn registry at /r/archive-ticker-grid.json with "npx shadcn add".
A complete brand system: a font pairing, 28 semantic color tokens in light and dark, a typography scale, spacing and elevation, per-element treatments, distinctive motifs, do's and don'ts, and a DESIGN.md a coding agent builds from. Exports cover shadcn registry items, Tailwind v3 and v4 themes, DTCG tokens JSON, and plain CSS variables.
Archive Ticker Grid is free: its full color tokens, fonts, DESIGN.md, and every export are available at no cost.
A complete, agent-ready design system in your brand.
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Distinctive motifs
Do
Don't
Never build these
Typography is what language looks like. The right typeface sets the tone before a single word is read. Its rhythm, weight, and shape carry the brand.
Spacing & radius
Spacing · base 4px
Elevation
Contrast · WCAG
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## Overview A dense, sharp-cornered catalog system built on an almost-white canvas divided by hairline rules into equal columns. Titles are set tight in a bold grotesque; timecodes, dates and index codes sit beside them in small monospace. Category labels run uppercase in muted grey at the far right of each row. Rows of collapsible sections are separated by full-width hairlines with a plus sign as the only affordance. One saturated acid-yellow bar acts as the active/now-playing state and is the sole loud color in an otherwise achromatic field; photographic thumbnails supply the remaining color as warm magenta-to-orange gradient portraits inside small square cards. Nothing is rounded, nothing is shadowed, and a very pale oversized ghost wordmark-scale graphic sits behind the lower right as watermark texture. ## Personality - **Feels like:** utilitarian, archival, dense, flat, precise, understated, technical. - **Not like:** soft consumer roundness, glassmorphism, gradient UI chrome, playful oversized whitespace, decorative shadows. ## Colors Every color captured from the source. Store all of them; a given screen renders only the subset it needs (a chart may use every data-viz color while a hero uses two). **Brand** - `#111111`: Ink **Surfaces** - `#F7F6F4`: Off White **Accents** - `#D6F224`: Acid Yellow **Data-viz series** - `#C05CD8`: Portrait Magenta - `#EE6A2B`: Portrait Orange **Borders** - `#DCDAD5`: Hairline **Other** - `#6B6B6B`: Grey Label **Semantic roles, light** - `background`: `#F7F6F4` - `foreground`: `#111111` - `card`: `#FFFFFF` - `card-foreground`: `#111111` - `popover`: `#FFFFFF` - `popover-foreground`: `#111111` - `primary`: `#111111` - `primary-foreground`: `#F7F6F4` - `secondary`: `#EBEAE7` - `secondary-foreground`: `#2B2B2B`
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