CSS Border Gradient (Meng To)

3/5 out of 5. Read the verdict

Subtle gradient borders for premium web surfaces.

CSS Border Gradient (Meng To)
After: Tally landing page, made with CSS Border Gradient (Meng To)
Baselineno skill installed
Before: Tally landing page, no design skill

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Every skill gets the same Tally brief, alone in a clean project. How we test

Our verdict

3/5 out of 5

Passed the cut

CSS Border Gradient takes Tally dark: deep navy panels with faint mint-edged gradient borders, Fraunces headlines over Manrope on the landing and Inter on the dashboard, with mint, amber and coral accents. The dashboard is clean and colorful without getting loud. Pick it if you want a polished dark product with a soft glow.

Pick it for

  • dark-mode SaaS
  • fintech dashboards
  • premium app sites
  • developer tools

Skip it for

  • light-mode brands
  • print-like editorial sites
  • playful consumer apps

Typography

Observations

  1. the serif-plus-green headline style still echoes the default, only in the dark
  2. the gradient borders are subtle enough to disappear on dim screens

Install

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit MengTo/Skills/agent-skills/web-design/css-border-gradient#main .claude/skills/css-border-gradient

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 css-border-gradient skill from this repo.

Details

Type
Skill
GitHub stars
6,824 (Stars are for the whole MengTo/Skills repository.)
Updated
today
License
MIT
Source
GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Test runOpus 5.5Claude Code 2.1.302Oct 18, 2026generated in 5 minabout $1.04 at API pricescommit 83a47fe

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