claude-design-system-prompt vs Documentary Brutalist Agency (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.

Tally landing page made with claude-design-system-prompt

This system prompt moves Tally to a cool grey-and-ink look with Bricolage Grotesque, Geist and a lime marker, and the dashboard is clean and well organized. One contrast bug on the closing CTA keeps it from a higher score.

Tally landing page made with Documentary Brutalist Agency (Meng To)

Documentary Brutalist Agency shouts in the best way: "EVERY DOLLAR GETS A JOB" in giant Anton capitals, hard black and paper chapters, numbered sections and mono captions. The dashboard keeps it, with a huge $640, black rule-framed panels and a mint bills card. Pick it if you want a poster-loud brand and can live with a budgeting app that feels like a culture magazine.

Side by side

Fieldclaude-design-system-promptDocumentary Brutalist Agency (Meng To)
Fonts
  • Bricolage Grotesque
  • Geist
  • Geist Mono
  • Anton
  • Inter Tight
  • JetBrains Mono (landing)
Colors
  • #F4F5F1 paper
  • #16181D ink
  • lime marker oklch(91% 0.19 122)
  • coral oklch(58% 0.17 30)
  • dashboard brand oklch(44% 0.09 168)
  • #0d0d0c ink
  • #f3f0e8 paper
  • #cfeedd mint
  • #f6d3d0 pink
  • #b3261e red (dashboard)
  • #6b6862 grey
Good fit for
  • B2B and prosumer SaaS
  • fintech dashboards
  • developer-adjacent tools
  • directories and content tools
  • agency and studio sites
  • culture and events brands
  • bold product launches
  • editorial portfolios
Not great for
  • warm lifestyle brands
  • kids or playful apps
  • luxury
  • calm consumer finance
  • accessibility-first public services
  • long-form reading
Flaws we saw
  • landing, desktop and mobile: in the closing CTA the highlighted word "counted." is dark ink on the dark band, so most of it disappears
  • took the longest after hallmark and taste (285 s landing, 263 s dashboard) and used a subagent
  • the all-caps Anton headlines get tiring over a long page
  • dashboard: the black-on-black envelope bars rely on thin outlines to read

The baseline with no skillHow the brief works

Install claude-design-system-prompt

1 Paste a prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini

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

No install command in README: paste system-prompt.md as the system prompt and copy skills/ manually.

Taken from the project README. Check the source for the latest instructions.

Install Documentary Brutalist Agency (Meng To)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit MengTo/Skills/agent-skills/web-design/documentary-brutalist-agency#main .claude/skills/documentary-brutalist-agency

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.