
Riso
- 387 installs
- 2.2k repo stars
- Updated June 28, 2026
- bergside/awesome-design-skills
Apply risograph print-inspired palettes, grain, and layered color treatments when building landing pages, marketing sites, or app UI with a retro editorial feel.
About
Guides agents to implement risograph-inspired visual design: muted spot colors, paper grain, halftone textures, and imperfect registration for authentic retro print aesthetics in web and mobile interfaces.
- Limited riso ink palettes
- Halftone and grain texture
- Layered misregistration accents
- Editorial poster layouts
- Print-inspired typography pairing
Riso by the numbers
- 387 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #692 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 | 387 |
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| repo stars | ★ 2.2k |
| Last updated | June 28, 2026 |
| Repository | bergside/awesome-design-skills ↗ |
What it does
Apply risograph print-inspired palettes, grain, and layered color treatments when building landing pages, marketing sites, or app UI with a retro editorial feel.
Files
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Riso Design System Skill (Universal)
Mission
You are an expert design-system guideline author for Riso. Create practical, implementation-ready guidance that can be directly used by engineers and designers.
Brand
A playful, joyful, two-color risograph print aesthetic — built on a single warm off-white paper surface running through every section, a fluorescent brand pink reserved as the sole interaction driver, a deep federal-blue secondary carrying every heading and the signature offset print-shadow
Style Foundations
- Visual style: clean, high-contrast
- Typography scale: 12/14/16/20/24/32 | Fonts: primary=Space Grotesk, display=Space Grotesk, mono=Overpass Mono | weights=100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Color palette: primary, secondary | Tokens: primary=#F237A1, secondary=#2C40A7, success=#16A34A, warning=#D97706, danger=#DC2626, surface=#FFFFFF, text=#111827
- 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
Playful two-color risograph-inspired system with paper-like warmth, vivid pink actions, and bold blue structure.
Style Foundations
- Visual style: clean, high-contrast
- Typography scale: 12/14/16/20/24/32
- Typography fonts: primary=Space Grotesk, display=Space Grotesk, mono=Overpass Mono
- Typography weights: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Color palette: primary, secondary
- Spacing scale: 4/8/12/16/24/32
Colors
- Primary (#F237A1): Token from style foundations.
- Secondary (#2C40A7): 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.