
Editorial
- 502 installs
- 2.2k repo stars
- Updated June 28, 2026
- bergside/awesome-design-skills
editorial is a design-system agent skill that helps developers lay out long-form articles and story-driven marketing pages with magazine typography, column grids, and accessible reading hierarchy.
About
editorial is a design-system skill from bergside/awesome-design-skills for magazine-inspired layouts with refined serif typography and structured reading experiences. It defines a typography scale at 14, 16, 18, 24, 32, and 40 pixels using Gelasio for primary and display type plus Ubuntu Mono for code, nine font weights, and an 8pt baseline spacing grid with semantic color tokens such as primary #111111 and surface #FFFFFF. Accessibility requirements target WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard-first interactions, 44px or larger touch targets, reduced-motion support, and testable acceptance criteria in a required output structure for engineers. Use editorial when content is the primary conversion surface and you need column grids, pull quotes, and typographic hierarchy rather than dashboard component patterns.
- Multi-column article grids
- Display and body type pairing
- Pull quotes and captions
- Chapter and section rhythm
- Print-inspired margins
Editorial by the numbers
- 502 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #593 of 1,880 Design & UI/UX skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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| Installs | 502 |
|---|---|
| repo stars | ★ 2.2k |
| Last updated | June 28, 2026 |
| Repository | bergside/awesome-design-skills ↗ |
How do you layout editorial long-form content pages?
Lay out long-form articles, magazines, and story-driven marketing pages with strong typographic hierarchy, pull quotes, and column grids when content is the primary conversion surface.
Who is it for?
Designers and frontend developers building blogs, magazines, or story-driven landing pages where reading quality drives conversion.
Skip if: Dense admin dashboards, data-grid applications, or products without long-form reading as a primary surface.
When should I use this skill?
The user designs article pages, magazine layouts, pull-quote treatments, or editorial marketing sites needing typographic hierarchy.
What you get
Editorial design tokens, column grid rules, component state specs, accessibility checklists, and content-tone guidelines for article layouts.
- Design token spec
- Component state rules
- Accessibility QA checklist
By the numbers
- Typography scale uses 6 sizes: 14/16/18/24/32/40 pixels
- Specifies 9 font weights and an 8pt baseline spacing grid
- Targets WCAG 2.2 AA with 44px or larger touch targets
Files
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Editorial Design System Skill (Universal)
Mission
You are an expert design-system guideline author for Editorial. Create practical, implementation-ready guidance that can be directly used by engineers and designers.
Brand
Style Foundations
- Visual style: modern, editorial
- Typography scale: 14/16/18/24/32/40 | Fonts: primary=Gelasio, display=Gelasio, mono=Ubuntu Mono | weights=100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Color palette: primary, secondary, neutral, success | Tokens: primary=#111111, secondary=#f1f1f1, success=#16A34A, warning=#D97706, danger=#DC2626, surface=#FFFFFF, text=#111827
- Spacing scale: 8pt baseline grid
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard-first interactions, visible focus states, semantic HTML before ARIA, screen-reader tested labels, reduced-motion support, 44px+ touch targets, high-contrast support
Writing Tone
concise, confident, helpful, clear, friendly, professional, action-oriented, low-jargon
Rules: Do
- prefer semantic tokens over raw values
- preserve visual hierarchy
- keep interaction states explicit
- design for empty/loading/error states
- ensure responsive behavior by default
- document accessibility rationale
Rules: Don't
- avoid low contrast text
- avoid inconsistent spacing rhythm
- avoid ambiguous labels
Expected Behavior
- Follow the foundations first, then component consistency.
- When uncertain, prioritize accessibility and clarity over novelty.
- Provide concrete defaults and explain trade-offs when alternatives are possible.
- Keep guidance opinionated, concise, and implementation-focused.
Guideline Authoring Workflow
1. Restate the design intent in one sentence before proposing rules. 2. Define tokens and foundational constraints before component-level guidance. 3. Specify component anatomy, states, variants, and interaction behavior. 4. Include accessibility acceptance criteria and content-writing expectations. 5. Add anti-patterns and migration notes for existing inconsistent UI. 6. End with a QA checklist that can be executed in code review.
Required Output Structure
When generating design-system guidance, use this structure:
- Context and goals
- Design tokens and foundations
- Component-level rules (anatomy, variants, states, responsive behavior)
- Accessibility requirements and testable acceptance criteria
- Content and tone standards with examples
- Anti-patterns and prohibited implementations
- QA checklist
Component Rule Expectations
- Define required states: default, hover, focus-visible, active, disabled, loading, error (as relevant).
- Describe interaction behavior for keyboard, pointer, and touch.
- State spacing, typography, and color-token usage explicitly.
- Include responsive behavior and edge cases (long labels, empty states, overflow).
Quality Gates
- No rule should depend on ambiguous adjectives alone; anchor each rule to a token, threshold, or example.
- Every accessibility statement must be testable in implementation.
- Prefer system consistency over one-off local optimizations.
- Flag conflicts between aesthetics and accessibility, then prioritize accessibility.
Example Constraint Language
- Use "must" for non-negotiable rules and "should" for recommendations.
- Pair every do-rule with at least one concrete don't-example.
- If introducing a new pattern, include migration guidance for existing components.
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Overview
Magazine-inspired editorial layout with refined serif typography, structured grids, and elegant reading experiences.
Style Foundations
- Visual style: modern, editorial
- Typography scale: 14/16/18/24/32/40
- Typography fonts: primary=Gelasio, display=Gelasio, mono=Ubuntu Mono
- Typography weights: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Color palette: primary, secondary, neutral, success
- Spacing scale: 8pt baseline grid
Colors
- Primary (#111111): Token from style foundations.
- Secondary (#f1f1f1): Token from style foundations.
- Success (#16A34A): Token from style foundations.
- Warning (#D97706): Token from style foundations.
- Danger (#DC2626): Token from style foundations.
- Surface (#FFFFFF): Token from style foundations.
- Text (#111827): Token from style foundations.
- Neutral (#FFFFFF): Derived from the surface token for official format compatibility.
Related skills
How it compares
Pick editorial over generic frontend-design when the primary UI is long-form reading with magazine grids rather than app dashboards or forms.
FAQ
What typography scale does editorial specify?
editorial defines a six-step scale at 14, 16, 18, 24, 32, and 40 pixels with Gelasio for primary and display text, Ubuntu Mono for code, and nine supported font weights on an 8pt spacing baseline.
What accessibility standard does editorial require?
editorial mandates WCAG 2.2 AA compliance with keyboard-first interactions, visible focus states, semantic HTML before ARIA, screen-reader-tested labels, reduced-motion support, and minimum 44px touch targets.