Japanese Minimal vs Agency Grid Layout Minimal

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.

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.

Japanese Minimal4/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Japanese Minimal (Design Taste by Mustafa)
Agency Grid Layout Minimal4/5
After: Tally landing page, made with Agency Grid Layout Minimal (Meng To)

Scroll either page; the other follows.

Japanese Minimal gives Tally a wabi-sabi ledger: Shippori Mincho headlines on rice paper, Zen Kaku Gothic New body text, a red hanko seal by the wordmark and a vertical line of text at the edge of the hero. Features and pricing are thin-ruled rows instead of cards, and the dashboard uses Roman-numeral navigation, three large figures with seal red only on the $640, and a quiet gray bar chart. It is the most restrained look in this batch and holds together on both pages and on a phone, though the small gray text is faint and the landing feels sparse. Pick it for studios, tea or wellness brands, or any product that wants stillness.

Agency Grid Layout Minimal turns Tally into a Swiss-style studio page: grey paper, huge light Inter Tight headlines with a darker second line, hairline rules and JetBrains Mono labels. The dashboard is the same: a giant "$640 left to budget", thin progress lines and one black bar in the chart. Pick it if you want a calm, typographic product page that looks designed rather than templated.

Side by side

FieldJapanese Minimal (Design Taste by Mustafa)Agency Grid Layout Minimal (Meng To)
Fonts
  • Shippori Mincho
  • Zen Kaku Gothic New
  • Inter Tight
  • Inter (landing)
  • JetBrains Mono
Colors
  • #f4f1ea rice paper
  • #33302b sumi ink
  • #b3392a seal red
  • #8a8378 ash gray
  • #ece8df paper shade
  • #ecebe7 grey paper
  • #fbfaf8 white
  • #121211 ink
  • #8b8984 grey
  • #3d6b4f green (landing)
  • #b4441c rust (dashboard)
Pick it for
  • wellness, tea and food brands
  • studios and personal sites
  • calm, low-density apps
  • agency and studio sites
  • portfolio and case-study pages
  • minimal SaaS landing pages
  • finance and analytics dashboards
Skip it for
  • dense data products
  • loud consumer launches
  • playful consumer brands
  • image-heavy marketing pages
  • dark-mode products
Observations
  • small gray body text is low in contrast
  • the landing feels sparse and shows little of the product
  • landing: the light grey type on grey paper is low contrast in places
  • landing: the hero product shot is a pale wireframe that says little at a glance

How the brief works

Install Japanese Minimal (Design Taste by Mustafa)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit madebymustafa/design-taste/skills/japanese-minimal#main .claude/skills/japanese-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 Agency Grid Layout Minimal (Meng To)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit MengTo/Skills/agent-skills/web-design/agency-grid-layout-minimal#main .claude/skills/agency-grid-layout-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.