Paper (Awesome Design Skills)

3/5 out of 5. Read the verdict

Paper-textured, print-inspired design with minimal color, clean type and tactile surfaces. From bergside's Awesome Design Skills.

Paper (Awesome Design Skills)
After: Tally landing page, made with Paper (Awesome Design Skills)
Baselineno skill installed
Before: Tally landing page, no design skill

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Our verdict

3/5 out of 5

Passed the cut

Paper gives Tally a ledger feel: warm grainy off-white, black Montserrat headlines, Roboto body text, PT Mono labels and violet as the only accent. The landing hero is a budget sheet with a "synced" stamp and a taped-on note. It is tidy and has a small idea, but it stays close to a plain light page, and the mobile dashboard scrolls sideways. Pick it for calm, print-flavored products.

Pick it for

  • personal-finance and notes apps
  • calm SaaS
  • reports
  • simple dashboards

Skip it for

  • bold brands
  • dark-mode products
  • image-led marketing

Observations

  1. the paper texture is subtle, so it mostly reads as a plain light page
  2. dashboard mobile: 546 px wide on a 390 px screen, so it scrolls sideways

Install

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit bergside/awesome-design-skills/skills/paper#main .claude/skills/paper

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.

We tested the paper skill from this repo.

Details

Type
Skill
GitHub stars
3,255*
Updated
4mo ago
License
MIT
Source
GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Test runOpus 5.5Claude Code 2.1.303Oct 18, 2026generated in 6 minabout $1.38 at API pricescommit f631a09

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