Bold (Awesome Design Skills) vs Illustration: Outlined Cartoon (Meng To)

Tied at 4/5 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. Shared tasks: Visual direction, Landing pages.

Tally landing page made with Bold (Awesome Design Skills)

Bold gives Tally a poster: huge uppercase Archivo Black headlines, thick black borders with hard offset shadows, a blue-and-yellow accent pair and a tilted phone in the hero. The dashboard keeps the same voice with a black sidebar, a big black "spent so far" card and striped red for the over-budget envelope. Both pages read clearly and work on a phone. Pick it when you want a product page that shouts.

Tally landing page made with Illustration: Outlined Cartoon (Meng To)

The Outlined Cartoon skill draws its own SVG people and objects, with thick black outlines and flat yellow, periwinkle, red and green fills, and builds the whole page around them: chunky Bricolage Grotesque, hard offset shadows and sticker-like cards. The dashboard keeps the cartoon, down to a little character in the summary card. Pick it if you want a friendly, playful product that looks hand-made.

Side by side

FieldBold (Awesome Design Skills)Illustration: Outlined Cartoon (Meng To)
Fonts
  • Archivo Black
  • Archivo
  • JetBrains Mono
  • Bricolage Grotesque
  • DM Sans (landing)
  • Figtree (dashboard)
Colors
  • #111111 near-black
  • #ffffff white
  • #0077bc blue
  • #ffd23f yellow
  • #f3f1ea paper
  • #dc2626 red
  • #1e1b1b ink
  • #fffdf8 paper
  • #f6c343 yellow
  • #6b7fd4 periwinkle
  • #e5281d red
  • #4ea54a green
  • #f6a3b6 pink
Good fit for
  • consumer apps with a loud brand
  • launch and campaign pages
  • SaaS landing pages
  • product dashboards that need personality
  • consumer apps
  • education and kids products
  • friendly onboarding
  • community and creator tools
Not great for
  • quiet enterprise tools
  • luxury or editorial brands
  • dense data tables
  • serious finance or legal brands
  • enterprise software
  • minimal brands
Flaws we saw
  • landing: the hero headline is so large that the value line and buttons sit low on a laptop screen
  • dashboard: heavy borders on every card make the page feel busy in long lists
  • the runs take far longer than the web-design skills, because every illustration is drawn by hand in SVG
  • the hard offset shadows on every card make long pages busy

The baseline with no skillHow the brief works

Install Bold (Awesome Design Skills)

1 Run in your terminal

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

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 Illustration: Outlined Cartoon (Meng To)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit MengTo/Skills/agent-skills/illustration/illustration-outlined-cartoon#main .claude/skills/illustration-outlined-cartoon

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.