Ant vs Cafe

Awesome Design Skills · Awesome Design Skills

Tied at 3/5 on the same brief. Pick by fit: the rows below show where each one is stronger.

Both built the Tally landing page in the same Claude Code test, and both design the Minimalist way: white space, one accent, and the confidence to leave things out. Both are best for: visual direction.

Ant3/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Ant (Awesome Design Skills)
Cafe3/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Cafe (Awesome Design Skills)

Scroll either page; the other follows.

Ant gives Tally the look of Ant Design: white and cool grey, a #1677ff blue, Plus Jakarta Sans with JetBrains Mono figures, and compact bordered cards and tags. The landing hero is a realistic budget dashboard; the dashboard itself is dense and tidy. It is clean and clearly not the default, but it looks like many admin tools. Pick it for data-heavy B2B apps.

Cafe gives Tally espresso browns on cream, Poppins type and soft rounded cards. The landing has a phone next to a paper-receipt "monthly tally" and coffee-themed copy; the dashboard leads with a dark espresso summary card. It is warm and tidy, but the cream background and phone hero sit close to the default look, with brown in place of green. Pick it for cozy lifestyle or food brands.

Side by side

FieldAnt (Awesome Design Skills)Cafe (Awesome Design Skills)
Fonts
  • Plus Jakarta Sans
  • JetBrains Mono
  • Poppins
  • JetBrains Mono
Colors
  • #ffffff white
  • #f5f6f8 cool grey
  • #1677ff blue
  • #e6f4ff blue wash
  • #8b5cf6 violet
  • #111827 ink
  • #f9f7f5 cream
  • #5d4432 espresso
  • #3e2b1e dark roast
  • #c98b5a caramel
  • #e9e3dd latte
  • #ffffff white
Pick it for
  • B2B and admin apps
  • data-dense dashboards
  • internal tools
  • enterprise SaaS
  • cafe, food and lifestyle brands
  • cozy consumer apps
  • small-business sites
  • simple dashboards
Skip it for
  • consumer brands that need personality
  • editorial or luxury sites
  • playful products
  • tech or developer products
  • bold brands
  • dark-mode products
Observations
  • landing: reads more like an admin screen than a marketing page
  • the cream background and phone hero are close to the default look, only browner
  • the coffee puns in the copy will not suit every product

How the brief works

Install Ant (Awesome Design Skills)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit bergside/awesome-design-skills/skills/ant#main .claude/skills/ant

2 Or paste a prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini

It tells your tool to install this from its source repository.

This install is for Claude Code only; for other agents use Copy prompt or copy the skill folder.

Copies just this skill's folder into your project's .claude/skills.

Check the source for the latest instructions.

Install Cafe (Awesome Design Skills)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit bergside/awesome-design-skills/skills/cafe#main .claude/skills/cafe

2 Or paste a prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini

It tells your tool to install this from its source repository.

This install is for Claude Code only; for other agents use Copy prompt or copy the skill folder.

Copies just this skill's folder into your project's .claude/skills.

Check the source for the latest instructions.