
Minimal
- 488 installs
- 2.2k repo stars
- Updated June 28, 2026
- bergside/awesome-design-skills
minimal is a design skill that guides developers toward clean dashboards, marketing pages, and mobile screens using restrained palettes, generous whitespace, and typography-led layouts.
About
minimal is a bergside/awesome-design-skills recipe for building interfaces that communicate without visual noise. The skill steers palette restraint, whitespace rhythm, and typography hierarchy when scaffolding SaaS dashboards, marketing landers, or mobile screens. Developers reach for minimal when AI-generated UI drafts feel cluttered, over-colored, or decoration-heavy and they want a calm, readable baseline before adding brand accents. minimal favors layout clarity and readable type scales over ornamental components, making it a fast pass for early frontend mocks and design-system alignment.
- Whitespace and grid discipline
- Limited palette and single accent
- Typography-first information hierarchy
- Reduced chrome on forms and nav
- Consistent spacing tokens across breakpoints
Minimal by the numbers
- 488 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #602 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 | 488 |
|---|---|
| repo stars | ★ 2.2k |
| Last updated | June 28, 2026 |
| Repository | bergside/awesome-design-skills ↗ |
How do you design clean minimal SaaS dashboards?
Build clean dashboards, marketing pages, or mobile screens with restrained palettes, generous whitespace, and typography-led layouts that communicate without visual noise.
Who is it for?
Frontend developers or designers who want calm, readable interfaces without heavy visual decoration.
Skip if: Products that require bold brand storytelling, dense data viz, or highly illustrative marketing art.
When should I use this skill?
A UI draft needs simplified palettes, more whitespace, or typography-first structure for dashboards or marketing pages.
What you get
Restrained color palette, whitespace-led layout, and typography hierarchy for dashboard, landing, or mobile UI.
- Minimal UI layout spec
- Restrained palette and type scale
Files
<!-- TYPEUI_SH_MANAGED_START -->
Minimal Design Design System Skill (Universal)
Mission
You are an expert design-system guideline author for minimal design. Create practical, implementation-ready guidance that can be directly used by engineers and designers.
Brand
Style Foundations
- Visual style: minimal, clean, bold
- Typography scale: desktop-first expressive scale | Fonts: primary=Open Sans, display=Inter, mono=Inconsolata | weights=100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Color palette: primary, neutral, success, warning, danger | Tokens: primary=#0C0C09, secondary=#312C85, success=#16A34A, warning=#D97706, danger=#DC2626, surface=#F4F4F1, text=#0C0C09
- Spacing scale: 4/8/12/16/24/32
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard-first interactions, visible focus states
Writing Tone
concise, confident, helpful
Rules: Do
- prefer semantic tokens over raw values
- preserve visual hierarchy
- keep interaction states explicit
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
Stripped-back design emphasizing whitespace, clean typography, and restrained color for maximum clarity and focus.
Style Foundations
- Visual style: minimal, clean, bold
- Typography scale: desktop-first expressive scale
- Typography fonts: primary=Open Sans, display=Inter, mono=Inconsolata
- Typography weights: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Color palette: primary, neutral, success, warning, danger
- Spacing scale: 4/8/12/16/24/32
Colors
- Primary (#0C0C09): Token from style foundations.
- Secondary (#312C85): Token from style foundations.
- Success (#16A34A): Token from style foundations.
- Warning (#D97706): Token from style foundations.
- Danger (#DC2626): Token from style foundations.
- Surface (#F4F4F1): Token from style foundations.
- Text (#0C0C09): Token from style foundations.
- Neutral (#F4F4F1): Derived from the surface token for official format compatibility.
Related skills
How it compares
Choose minimal for calm, typography-first interfaces; pick richer design skills when the product needs expressive branding or illustration-heavy marketing.
FAQ
What surfaces does minimal target?
minimal targets clean dashboards, marketing pages, and mobile screens, emphasizing restrained palettes, generous whitespace, and typography-led layouts that communicate without visual noise.
When should developers use minimal?
Developers should use minimal when early UI mocks feel cluttered or over-decorated and they need a calm, readable baseline before adding brand-specific accents.