3D Metal Material (Meng To) 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 3D Metal Material (Meng To)

3D Metal Material gives Tally a dark studio look: Instrument Serif headlines with brass accents and a slowly tilting brushed-steel card in the hero, drawn live with WebGL. The dashboard puts the $640 on a machined steel plate and uses steel, brass and copper finishes on the bars and buttons. It feels premium and is consistent across both pages. Pick it when you want one rich 3D centerpiece on a dark product page.

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

Field3D Metal Material (Meng To)Illustration: Outlined Cartoon (Meng To)
Fonts
  • Instrument Serif (landing)
  • Manrope
  • JetBrains Mono (landing)
  • IBM Plex Mono (dashboard)
  • Bricolage Grotesque
  • DM Sans (landing)
  • Figtree (dashboard)
Colors
  • #0a0b0d graphite
  • #15181c panel
  • #e2bd6e brass
  • #c9ced2 steel
  • #e6a48d copper
  • #e7eaee text
  • #8fc7a4 sage
  • #1e1b1b ink
  • #fffdf8 paper
  • #f6c343 yellow
  • #6b7fd4 periwinkle
  • #e5281d red
  • #4ea54a green
  • #f6a3b6 pink
Good fit for
  • premium fintech and card products
  • dark product landing pages
  • hardware and luxury brands
  • hero visuals
  • consumer apps
  • education and kids products
  • friendly onboarding
  • community and creator tools
Not great for
  • light or playful brands
  • low-power devices
  • teams without WebGL experience
  • serious finance or legal brands
  • enterprise software
  • minimal brands
Flaws we saw
  • the WebGL card and plate add weight to the page and need a fallback
  • dashboard: the brass on graphite is subtle, so some labels are low contrast
  • 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 3D Metal Material (Meng To)

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit MengTo/Skills/agent-skills/3d/3d-metal-material#main .claude/skills/3d-metal-material

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.