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visual-design-foundations from wshobson/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
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- git:20260307.47a5dbc, committed Mar 7, 2026
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- License
- MIT
Apply typography, color theory, spacing systems, and iconography principles to create cohesive visual designs. Use when establishing design tokens, building style guides, or improving visual hierarchy and consistency.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Visual Design Foundations
Build cohesive, accessible visual systems using typography, color, spacing, and iconography fundamentals.
## When to Use This Skill
- Establishing design tokens for a new project
- Creating or refining a spacing and sizing system
- Selecting and pairing typefaces
- Building accessible color palettes
- Designing icon systems and visual assets
- Improving visual hierarchy and readability
- Auditing designs for visual consistency
- Implementing dark mode or theming
## Core Systems
### 1. Typography Scale
**Modular Scale** (ratio-based sizing):
```css
:root {
--font-size-xs: 0.75rem; /* 12px */
--font-size-sm: 0.875rem; /* 14px */
--font-size-base: 1rem; /* 16px */
--font-size-lg: 1.125rem; /* 18px */
--font-size-xl: 1.25rem; /* 20px */
--font-size-2xl: 1.5rem; /* 24px */
--font-size-3xl: 1.875rem; /* 30px */
--font-size-4xl: 2.25rem; /* 36px */
--font-size-5xl: 3rem; /* 48px */
}
```
**Line Height Guidelines**:
| Text Type | Line Height |
|-----------|-------------|
| Headings | 1.1 - 1.3 |
| Body text | 1.5 - 1.7 |
| UI labels | 1.2 - 1.4 |
### 2. Spacing System
**8-point grid** (industry standard):
```css
:root {
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How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/visual-design-foundations@sha256:0c6970d14f5d5df5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260307.47a5dbc, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jan 19, 2026 and Mar 7, 2026, about one every 23 days.
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| git:20260307.47a5dbc latest | 2026-03-07 | 47a5dbc | 7,218 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260119.5684887 | 2026-01-19 | 5684887 | 7,541 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260119.1e54d18 | 2026-01-19 | 1e54d18 | 7,514 B | A | view |
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Source
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
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