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Tastemaker skill forces AI coding tools to lock design taste before writing UI

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A solo developer created Tastemaker, an open-source skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Codex that enforces a design system before AI generates any UI code. It includes 5 color palettes, 24 font pairings, illustrations, logos, and motion defaults. The developer found that 40% of his manually chosen palettes failed accessibility contrast checks, which he fixed with a Python script.

Meridian48 take
The project highlights a real problem with AI-generated design homogeneity, but its reliance on preset palettes may limit creative flexibility for experienced designers.
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