claude-design-system-prompt vs Editorial Portfolio Chapters (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 Editorial Portfolio Chapters (Meng To)

Editorial Portfolio Chapters tells the Tally story in color-blocked chapters: clay, sage, mist and ochre panels on a black page, Inter Tight headlines and a hot orange signal color. The dashboard carries the same muted chapter colors into the envelope bars and ends on a big orange call to action. Pick it if you want a confident, art-directed product that still reads cleanly.

Side by side

Fieldclaude-design-system-promptEditorial Portfolio Chapters (Meng To)
Fonts
  • Bricolage Grotesque
  • Geist
  • Geist Mono
  • Inter Tight
  • Inter
  • 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)
  • #0f0f0d ink
  • #f2eee6 paper
  • #ff5b24 signal orange
  • #dcbca4 clay
  • #b9c3aa sage
  • #b0bfcc mist
  • #dcc684 ochre
Good fit for
  • B2B and prosumer SaaS
  • fintech dashboards
  • developer-adjacent tools
  • directories and content tools
  • portfolio and studio sites
  • product storytelling pages
  • lifestyle and consumer brands
  • editorial dashboards
Not great for
  • warm lifestyle brands
  • kids or playful apps
  • luxury
  • conservative finance brands
  • dense admin tools
  • single-color brand systems
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
  • landing: the hero is a phone and cards on a clay panel, so the first screen is less striking than the chapters below
  • dashboard: the muted envelope colors are close in value and harder to tell apart

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 Editorial Portfolio Chapters (Meng To)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit MengTo/Skills/agent-skills/web-design/editorial-portfolio-chapters#main .claude/skills/editorial-portfolio-chapters

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.