Hallmark

A design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex that refuses to look AI-generated.

Live demo →  ·  twenty themes  ·  four verbs  ·  press T to cycle.

Made by Together AI.

Hallmark picks a macrostructure for the brief, dresses it in one of twenty themes, runs fifty-seven slop-test gates plus a pre-emit self-critique, and refuses the on-distribution defaults every LLM was trained into. Two pages by Hallmark for two different briefs feel like different sites, not colour-swaps of the same template.

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Four verbs

Verb	What it does
(default)	Build new UI. Picks a macrostructure, applies the rule-set, runs the slop test before handing back.
hallmark audit <target>	Score existing code against the anti-patterns. Punch list, no edits.
hallmark redesign <target>	Throw out the structure, keep copy + IA + brand, rebuild with a different fingerprint.
hallmark study <screenshot | URL>	Extract the DNA from a design you admire: macrostructure, type-pairing, colour anchor. Refuses pixel-clones and paid templates. Optionally emits a portable design.md for handoff to other AI tools.

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Different briefs, different shapes

Each generated from a different brief. The skill picks the theme, structure, and craft to fit each one, not from a template.

Bubble Sourdough app · Hum	Distil Extraction API · Cobalt	Cold Snap Record label · Carnival	Cinder AI tool · Lumen
Ferns & Fathom Tea menu · Custom	Hollowback Apiary Honey farm · Garden	Off-Register Print fair · Riso	Press Quaternary Type studio · Custom
Tally SaaS · modern-minimal	Wayfare Travel · atmospheric	NAJM Fashion brand	Hyperlane Dev infrastructure

Each page is self-contained HTML + CSS, stamped with its macrostructure in the CSS comment. Browse the full set at usehallmark.com or under site/_tests/.

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Custom ^NEW

When a brief carries creative intent that no catalog theme fits, Hallmark switches to Custom and designs the page from scratch: a made-to-measure palette, type, and layout. Same 57 slop-test gates, no template underneath.

The Cascadia Nightjar Sleeper-train ticket · Custom	The Mend Assembly Repair-café broadsheet · Custom

It stays a quiet branch; vanilla briefs never see it. The protocol lives in custom-theme.md.

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Install

npx skills add nutlope/hallmark

Re-run any time to update. Or copy SKILL.md + references/ into:

• Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/hallmark/
• Cursor: .cursor/rules/hallmark.mdc (body of SKILL.md, no frontmatter)
• Codex: ~/.codex/skills/hallmark/ (personal) or .codex/skills/hallmark/ (project-scoped)

The rule-set lives in SKILL.md and references/. Worked examples in docs/recipes.md and docs/study-examples.md.

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Licence

MIT. Use it, fork it, ship it.