brand-guidelines
by ComposioHQbrand-guidelines helps apply Anthropic-style colors, typography, and visual hierarchy to slides, documents, reports, and other artifacts. Use this brand-guidelines skill for consistent styling guidance, with no scripts or assets included.
This skill scores 66/100, which means it is acceptable for directory listing but limited. Directory users can install it for lightweight Anthropic-inspired visual styling guidance, especially color and typography choices, but should not expect a full brand system, asset library, or detailed implementation workflow.
- Clear trigger intent: use when brand colors, typography, visual formatting, or Anthropic-style design standards apply.
- Provides concrete reusable style tokens, including color hex values and font choices with fallbacks.
- Concise structure with sections for colors, typography, and styling features makes it quick for an agent to inspect and apply.
- No support files, examples, scripts, or assets are included, so execution depends on the agent applying the written style rules manually.
- The skill claims access to Anthropic's official brand identity, but the evidence only shows a short SKILL.md plus Apache license, with no referenced brand assets or source documentation.
Overview of brand-guidelines skill
What the brand-guidelines skill does
The brand-guidelines skill helps an AI assistant apply Anthropic-style visual branding to artifacts such as slides, documents, reports, diagrams, landing-page drafts, and formatted content. It focuses on brand colors, typography, visual hierarchy, and readable styling rather than generating a full brand strategy.
Best fit for branding and visual polish
This skill is most useful when you already have content and need it styled with a consistent brand look. It is a good fit for teams preparing Anthropic-themed internal docs, demo assets, educational materials, or design-adjacent deliverables where color and font choices matter. It is less useful if you need logo files, legal brand approvals, or a complete design system.
Key styling rules included
The skill defines a compact Anthropic-inspired palette: dark #141413, light #faf9f5, mid gray #b0aea5, light gray #e8e6dc, orange #d97757, blue #6a9bcc, and green #788c5d. It also specifies Poppins for headings and Lora for body text, with Arial and Georgia fallbacks when the preferred fonts are unavailable.
Practical adoption notes
The main value of the brand-guidelines skill is speed and consistency: it gives the assistant concrete styling constraints instead of asking it to “make this look branded.” The main limitation is scope. The repository contains SKILL.md and LICENSE.txt, with no scripts, assets, or reusable design tokens, so users should treat it as styling guidance rather than a full implementation package.
How to Use brand-guidelines skill
brand-guidelines install context
Install the skill from the GitHub skill collection using your skill manager, for example: npx skills add ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills --skill brand-guidelines. After installation, inspect brand-guidelines/SKILL.md first; it contains the usable color and typography rules. Check LICENSE.txt if you need to understand redistribution or internal packaging terms.
Inputs that produce better branded output
Give the assistant the artifact type, target audience, output format, and styling constraints. A weak prompt is: “Make this branded.” A stronger brand-guidelines usage prompt is: “Use the brand-guidelines skill to restyle this executive summary as a one-page PDF draft. Use #faf9f5 as the background, #141413 for body text, orange #d97757 for key callouts, Poppins-style headings, and Lora-style body text. Preserve the existing section order and improve visual hierarchy without changing the meaning.”
Suggested workflow for real projects
Start with content structure before visual styling. Ask the assistant to identify headings, body text, callouts, captions, and secondary information, then apply the skill’s typography and color rules to each layer. For slide decks or reports, request a style pass after the first draft rather than mixing content creation, layout, and brand styling in one prompt. This reduces generic design output and makes deviations easier to catch.
Repository files to read first
Read SKILL.md for the full brand-guidelines guide: colors, typography, font fallback behavior, and styling intent. There are no separate resources/, rules/, assets/, or scripts/ directories, so do not expect downloadable templates or automation helpers. If your workflow requires CSS variables, Tailwind tokens, Figma styles, or PowerPoint masters, ask the assistant to translate the documented palette and typography into those formats.
brand-guidelines skill FAQ
Is brand-guidelines for Branding or full brand design?
brand-guidelines is for applying an existing visual style, not inventing a new brand identity. It can help with brand-consistent formatting, color selection, text hierarchy, and typography suggestions. It should not be treated as an official approval workflow, logo package, or comprehensive corporate identity system.
How is this better than an ordinary prompt?
A generic prompt like “use Anthropic colors” can produce inconsistent palettes or font choices. The brand-guidelines skill gives the assistant specific hex values, heading/body font guidance, fallback fonts, and styling priorities. That makes outputs easier to review and easier to reproduce across documents.
Do I need Poppins and Lora installed?
For best visual fidelity, yes. The skill notes Poppins for headings and Lora for body text, but also allows fallbacks: Arial for headings and Georgia for body text. If you are generating HTML, CSS, slides, or PDFs, tell the assistant whether the environment supports custom fonts, web fonts, or only system fonts.
When should I not use this skill?
Do not use it when the artifact must follow another company’s brand system, when accessibility contrast requirements override the palette, or when you need official Anthropic trademark guidance. Also avoid using it as a substitute for legal, marketing, or design review on public-facing materials.
How to Improve brand-guidelines skill
Improve brand-guidelines results with exact context
The biggest quality gain comes from specifying where the styling will be applied. Tell the assistant whether the target is Markdown, HTML/CSS, Google Slides, PowerPoint, PDF, SVG, or a plain text outline. Also include the audience, tone, page size or slide ratio, and whether the output should be conservative, editorial, technical, or presentation-ready.
Common failure modes to watch
The assistant may overuse accent colors, apply decorative styling where hierarchy is enough, or choose low-contrast combinations. Ask for restrained accent usage: orange for primary emphasis, blue or green for secondary accents, grays for supporting structure, and dark/light colors for readable foreground-background pairings.
Strong prompt pattern for iteration
Use this pattern after a first draft: “Review this artifact with the brand-guidelines skill. List any color, typography, contrast, or hierarchy issues first. Then provide a revised version that keeps the content unchanged, uses the defined palette, applies heading/body font rules, and explains any unavoidable fallback choices.” This separates critique from rewriting and improves control.
Extend the skill for your workflow
If you use the skill often, create local snippets for CSS variables, slide theme settings, or document styles based on the documented palette. For example, map #141413 to primary text, #faf9f5 to page background, and #d97757 to primary callouts. This turns the lightweight brand-guidelines documentation into repeatable production guidance without changing its core purpose.