Clean vs Minimal

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.

Clean3/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Clean (Awesome Design Skills)
Minimal3/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Minimal (Awesome Design Skills)

Scroll either page; the other follows.

Clean (Awesome Design Skills)

3/5

Clean gives Tally a calm white and slate page with one blue accent, Poppins headings over Roboto, Inconsolata figures and an 8px spacing grid. The dashboard is just as plain: white cards, blue bars and color only where status matters. It is tidy and readable, though it looks like many SaaS templates. Pick it as a safe, neutral starting point.

Minimal (Awesome Design Skills)

3/5

Minimal gives Tally lots of white space, a near-black and indigo palette on warm off-white, and big Inter headlines over Open Sans. The dashboard is mostly black and white, with indigo for the $640 and red for the over-budget envelope. It is calm and clean, but the mobile dashboard scrolls sideways. Pick it for products that want quiet, simple pages.

Side by side

FieldClean (Awesome Design Skills)Minimal (Awesome Design Skills)
Fonts
  • Poppins
  • Roboto
  • Inconsolata
  • Inter
  • Open Sans
  • Inconsolata
Colors
  • #ffffff white
  • #f8fafc slate wash
  • #2563eb blue
  • #eff6ff blue tint
  • #111827 ink
  • #15803d green
  • #f4f4f1 off-white
  • #ffffff white
  • #0c0c09 near-black
  • #312c85 indigo
  • #16a34a green
  • #dc2626 red
Pick it for
  • SaaS landing pages
  • admin and settings screens
  • internal tools
  • starter templates
  • minimal SaaS
  • personal-finance apps
  • portfolio sites
  • calm dashboards
Skip it for
  • brands that need personality
  • editorial or luxury sites
  • playful consumer apps
  • playful brands
  • image-led marketing
  • dark-mode products
Observations
  • generic: hard to tell apart from other blue-on-white SaaS pages
  • landing: the bright green buttons sit apart from the indigo and black palette
  • dashboard mobile: 465 px wide on a 390 px screen, so it scrolls sideways

How the brief works

Install Clean (Awesome Design Skills)

1 Run in your terminal

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

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 Minimal (Awesome Design Skills)

1 Run in your terminal

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

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.