Big Pics, Little Words (Effective HTML)
3/5 out of 5. Read the verdictExplains a subject in HTML with large visuals and very little text, while keeping the key details.
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3/5 out of 5
Passed the cut
Big Pics, Little Words makes Tally all pictures: large flat illustrations drawn in code, a few words per section, warm paper colors and tomato and mustard accents. The dashboard leads with a dark card and a huge "$640 left to budget", and each envelope is a jar that fills up. It is a real idea, though the paper and dark-green palette are close to the default. The skill is meant to be called by hand, and in our runs it was loaded by reading its file. Pick it when you want visuals to carry the message.
Pick it for
- explainer and onboarding pages
- pitch pages
- visual reports
- simple dashboards
Skip it for
- content-heavy pages
- SEO-focused marketing
- dense admin tools
Colors
Observations
- the cream paper, Fraunces and dark green are close to the default palette
- the skill is set to manual use only, so in both runs the agent read the skill file instead of calling it
Install
1 Run in your terminal
npx degit plannotator/effective-html/skills/big-pics-little-words#main .claude/skills/big-pics-little-words2 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.
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We tested the big-pics-little-words skill from this repo.
Details
- Type
- Skill
- GitHub stars
- 3,697*
- Updated
- 2d ago
- License
- MIT
- Best for
- Visual direction
Test runOpus 5.5Claude Code 2.1.303Oct 19, 2026generated in 6 minabout $1.22 at API pricescommit 975b047
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