Framed Tech Dark Border Gradient (Meng To)

3/5 out of 5. Read the verdict

A framed dark technical design system with border-gradient shells, uneven grid panels, mono labels and a quiet monochrome mood.

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

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Our verdict

3/5 out of 5

Passed the cut

Framed Tech gives Tally a near-black page inside one framed shell: thin edge rails, corner markers, 1px gradient borders and uppercase mono labels, with a sparse mint accent. The dashboard uses the same framed shell, mint for money left and coral for overspending. It is clean and precise, but both mobile pages scroll sideways. Note that the landing and dashboard come from two different test days. Pick it for developer and infra products.

Pick it for

  • developer and infra tools
  • AI product pages
  • technical SaaS
  • dark dashboards

Skip it for

  • warm consumer brands
  • light, friendly products
  • editorial sites

Observations

  1. very low contrast grey text in places
  2. the landing run is from batch 2 and the dashboard run from batch 3, both on the same kit and skill commit
  3. landing mobile: 393 px wide on a 390 px screen, so it scrolls sideways a little
  4. dashboard mobile: 532 px wide on a 390 px screen, so it scrolls sideways

Install

1 Run in your terminal

npx degit MengTo/Skills/agent-skills/web-design/framed-tech-dark-border-gradient#main .claude/skills/framed-tech-dark-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 framed-tech-dark-border-gradient skill from this repo.

Details

Type
Skill
GitHub stars
6,835*
Updated
today
License
MIT
Source
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Test runOpus 5.5Claude Code 2.1.302Oct 18, 2026generated in 6 minabout $1.39 at API pricescommit 83a47fe

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