Editorial Minimal vs Documentary Brutalist Agency

Design Taste by Mustafa · Meng To

Tied at 4/5 on the same brief. Pick by fit: the rows below show where each one is stronger.

Same brief, opposite looks. Editorial Minimal is Print Romantic and Documentary Brutalist Agency is Brutalist: see how far apart two good skills can take the same page.

Editorial Minimal4/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Editorial Minimal (Design Taste by Mustafa)
Documentary Brutalist Agency4/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Documentary Brutalist Agency (Meng To)

Scroll either page; the other follows.

Editorial Minimal gives Tally a printed broadsheet: light Fraunces headlines with one italic vermilion word, IBM Plex Mono section numbers, hairline rules and an "In this issue" index beside the hero. The dashboard keeps the voice in Newsreader, opening with "You have $640 left to give a job" next to a ruled column of figures, and lists envelopes as a numbered table with one red over-budget bar. The background is cream like the default, but the green, the phone mockup and the cards are all gone, and both pages read well on a phone. Pick it for a calm, print-inspired product that lets type do the work.

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

FieldEditorial Minimal (Design Taste by Mustafa)Documentary Brutalist Agency (Meng To)
Fonts
  • Fraunces
  • Newsreader
  • IBM Plex Mono
  • Inter
  • Anton
  • Inter Tight
  • JetBrains Mono (landing)
Colors
  • #f5f1ea warm paper
  • #1a1a18 ink black
  • #e34a2b vermilion
  • #6b675e warm gray
  • #efeae1 paper shade
  • #0d0d0c ink
  • #f3f0e8 paper
  • #cfeedd mint
  • #f6d3d0 pink
  • #b3261e red (dashboard)
  • #6b6862 grey
Pick it for
  • editorial and publishing brands
  • calm finance and productivity apps
  • text-led landing pages
  • agency and studio sites
  • culture and events brands
  • bold product launches
  • editorial portfolios
Skip it for
  • loud consumer launches
  • playful youth brands
  • calm consumer finance
  • accessibility-first public services
  • long-form reading
Observations
  • the cream paper sits close to the default background
  • the landing hero shows no product above the fold
  • the all-caps Anton headlines get tiring over a long page
  • dashboard: the black-on-black envelope bars rely on thin outlines to read

How the brief works

Install Editorial Minimal (Design Taste by Mustafa)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit madebymustafa/design-taste/skills/editorial-minimal#main .claude/skills/editorial-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.

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.