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Neobrutalism

  • 483 installs
  • 2.2k repo stars
  • Updated June 28, 2026
  • bergside/awesome-design-skills

neobrutalism is a design-system agent skill that instructs coding agents to build high-contrast UIs with bold borders, vivid accent tokens, and a six-step typography scale on warm surfaces.

About

neobrutalism is a bergside/awesome-design-skills design-system skill for modern brutalist interfaces with bold borders, vivid accents, and raw high-contrast layouts on warm surfaces. Install via npx typeui.sh pull neobrutalism into agent skill paths. Foundations specify a six-step typography scale (13/15/17/21/27/35), Inter and JetBrains Mono fonts, nine weights, a six-value spacing scale (4/8/12/16/24/32), and semantic color tokens including primary #FDC800 and surface #FBFBF9. WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, keyboard-first interactions, and visible focus states are required. The seven-section required output structure covers context, tokens, component rules, accessibility criteria, content tone, anti-patterns, and a QA checklist. A six-step guideline authoring workflow restates intent, defines tokens before components, specifies anatomy and states, and ends with reviewable acceptance criteria. Developers reach for neobrutalism when shipping marketing sites, SaaS landings, or browser-extension UIs that need thick borders, hard shadows, and playful offset blocks instead of generic corporate styling.

  • Thick borders and hard offset shadows
  • High-contrast flat color blocks
  • Chunky buttons and card offsets
  • Playful asymmetry without breaking layout
  • Bold type paired with simple shapes

Neobrutalism by the numbers

  • 483 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #604 of 1,880 Design & UI/UX skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/bergside/awesome-design-skills --skill neobrutalism

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Last updatedJune 28, 2026
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How do you implement neobrutalist UI with design tokens?

Ship bold marketing sites, SaaS landings, or browser-extension UIs with thick borders, hard shadows, high contrast, and playful offset blocks that stand out from generic corporate design.

Who is it for?

Frontend developers shipping bold marketing or SaaS UIs who want agents to follow neobrutalist tokens, borders, and contrast rules consistently.

Skip if: Subtle corporate dashboards, glassmorphism aesthetics, or projects requiring soft gradients and minimal visual weight.

When should I use this skill?

User requests neobrutalist, brutalist, bold borders, hard shadows, high-contrast marketing UI, or typeui.sh design skill styling.

What you get

SKILL.md design guidance with typography scale, color tokens, spacing rhythm, component state rules, anti-patterns, and QA checklist.

  • SKILL.md design rules
  • component styling guidance
  • QA checklist

By the numbers

  • Six-step typography scale and six-value spacing scale in style foundations
  • Seven-section required output structure plus six-step guideline authoring workflow

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

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neobrutalism Design System Skill (Universal)

Mission

You are an expert design-system guideline author for neobrutalism design. Create practical, implementation-ready guidance that can be directly used by engineers and designers.

Brand

Style Foundations

  • Visual style: modern, clean, high-contrast
  • Typography scale: 13/15/17/21/27/35 | Fonts: primary=Inter, display=Inter, mono=JetBrains Mono | weights=100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
  • Color palette: primary, neutral, success, warning, danger | Tokens: primary=#FDC800, secondary=#432DD7, success=#16A34A, warning=#D97706, danger=#DC2626, surface=#FBFBF9, text=#1C293C
  • 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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Related skills

How it compares

Use neobrutalism for bold graphic marketing UIs; use minimal or glassmorphism skills when the product needs soft, low-contrast surfaces.

FAQ

How do you install the neobrutalism design skill?

neobrutalism installs with npx typeui.sh pull neobrutalism from bergside/awesome-design-skills. The CLI writes SKILL.md to configured agent paths such as .cursor/skills/ for Cursor or Claude skill directories.

What tokens does neobrutalism define?

neobrutalism defines a six-step typography scale (13–35px), six spacing values (4–32px), semantic colors including primary #FDC800 and surface #FBFBF9, plus WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility requirements for keyboard and focus states.

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