Neobrutalism (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 Neobrutalism (Awesome Design Skills)

Neobrutalism puts Tally on warm off-white with thick navy borders, hard offset shadows and flat yellow and violet blocks. The landing has a CSS phone with sticker-like envelope cards; the dashboard uses a dotted background, yellow highlights on the date and summary cards, and a clean transactions table. It is bold but still easy to read on both pages. Pick it for playful products that want a confident, graphic look.

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

FieldNeobrutalism (Awesome Design Skills)Illustration: Outlined Cartoon (Meng To)
Fonts
  • Inter
  • JetBrains Mono
  • Bricolage Grotesque
  • DM Sans (landing)
  • Figtree (dashboard)
Colors
  • #fbfbf9 off-white
  • #1c293c ink navy
  • #fdc800 yellow
  • #432dd7 violet
  • #ff8fb1 pink (dashboard)
  • #16a34a green
  • #1e1b1b ink
  • #fffdf8 paper
  • #f6c343 yellow
  • #6b7fd4 periwinkle
  • #e5281d red
  • #4ea54a green
  • #f6a3b6 pink
Good fit for
  • playful SaaS landing pages
  • consumer finance and productivity apps
  • product dashboards
  • startup marketing sites
  • consumer apps
  • education and kids products
  • friendly onboarding
  • community and creator tools
Not great for
  • conservative brands
  • luxury products
  • very dense admin tools
  • serious finance or legal brands
  • enterprise software
  • minimal brands
Flaws we saw
  • dashboard: the pink and violet chart bars add colors that are not in the rest of the system
  • the run did not check the page in a browser, but our screenshots show no breakage
  • 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 Neobrutalism (Awesome Design Skills)

1 Run in your terminal

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

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.