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Ui craft editorial

Skill educlopez/ui-craft/cli/assets/gemini/skills/ui-craft-editorial

Design engineering system for AI coding agents — ship UI with craft-level quality. Install as an agent skill.

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npx -y skills add educlopez/ui-craft --skill ui-craft-editorial

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Editorial / magazine / long-form / Medium / Substack / content-heavy UIs. Locked knobs: CRAFT=9, MOTION=4, DENSITY=3. Serif display + humanist body, wide reading column, drop caps, OpenType. Trigger on: editorial, magazine, long-form, blog, Medium-like, Substack-like.

SKILL.md

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UI Craft — Editorial

Pre-committed editorial style: magazine, long-form, content-first. Typography carries the hierarchy; layout serves the reading experience.

Knobs (locked)

  • CRAFT_LEVEL = 9 — editorial typography only works at high refinement; Polish Pass mandatory.
  • MOTION_INTENSITY = 4 — reading-aware: fade on reveal, link hovers, no entrance stagger.
  • VISUAL_DENSITY = 3 — wide reading column, generous vertical rhythm, 1 item per row for features.

Do not re-ask these in Discovery. Confirm accent + serif/sans pairing only.

Style anchors

  • Serif display for headings + humanist body sans/serif for reading.
  • Baseline grid feel. leading-relaxed (1.7) on body.
  • Wide reading column max-w-[65ch]. Generous vertical rhythm.
  • Accent used for emphasis — pull quotes, drop caps, link underlines — not decoration.
  • OpenType features ON: small caps, ligatures, stylistic sets, tabular figures where relevant.
  • Asymmetric, text-heavy heroes. Featured image large.
  • Motion respects reading: fades only, never pulls the eye away.
  • Black text, warm/ivory canvas, one accent. Color is a voice, not a decoration.

Base rules (inherited)

All rules in ../ui-craft/SKILL.md apply. This file overrides knob defaults and adds style-specific guidance below. The anti-slop and craft tests still apply in full.

Style-specific overrides

Typography (the whole point)

  • Display: Playfair Display, Fraunces, Lora, or Source Serif 4 for headings and pull quotes.
  • Body: Alegreya, Source Sans 3, ITC Charter, or a humanist pairing. Do NOT use Inter as primary body — it reads as product UI, not editorial.
  • Max two families: one display + one body.
  • Headings: text-wrap: balance, font-optical-sizing: auto, tracking near 0 or slightly negative on large sizes.
  • Body: text-wrap: pretty, line-height: 1.7, font-feature-settings: "liga", "kern".
  • Drop caps via p:first-of-type::first-letter { float: left; font-size: 4.5em; line-height: 0.85; padding: 6px 10px 0 0; font-family: <display>; }.
  • Small caps via font-variant-caps: small-caps for section labels, bylines.
  • Opt-in OpenType: font-feature-settings: "ss01", "cv11" when the chosen font supports them.
  • Pull quotes: serif, large (1.75-2.25em), one accent color, short rule above.

Color

  • Canvas: ivory or warm white — oklch(98% 0.01 85) — not pure #fff.
  • Text: oklch(18% 0.01 40) warm near-black.
  • Restricted palette: black, ivory/warm white, ONE accent. That's it.
  • Accent applied to: drop cap, pull quote, inline link underline, section rule. Not buttons that don't need it.

Spacing & layout

  • Reading column: max-w-[65ch] for body; hero and featured image can break out to max-w-5xl.
  • Vertical rhythm on body: paragraph spacing = line-height × 0.6 minimum.
  • Asymmetric heroes: left-aligned display headline + byline + featured image below or offset.
  • Section breaks: centered ornament or a short rule, not a full-width divider.

Motion

  • Fade on scroll reveal for hero/featured image only, 300-400ms ease-out.
  • Inline link hover: underline-offset grows 1px, color shifts to accent, 120ms.
  • No entrance stagger, no parallax, no page transitions that fight the reading flow.
  • Honor prefers-reduced-motion — cut all reveals.

Content components

  • Byline: small caps, tracking-wide, secondary text color.
  • Dateline + read time: tabular-nums, separated by a bullet ·.
  • Inline images: full-width or breakout beyond column, with italic serif caption underneath.
  • Blockquote: left border in accent, serif italic, max-w-[55ch].

Reference files to read first

Load these from ../ui-craft/references/:

  • typography.md — the primary reference for this style
  • layout.md — reading column, rhythm, hierarchy
  • color.md — warm palette, accent discipline
  • copy.md — editorial voice, headings, empty states

Skip dashboard.md, sound.md unless relevant.

Anti-patterns for THIS style

  • Inter, Geist, DM Sans as primary body. They signal product UI, not editorial.
  • Three font families. Always one display + one body.
  • Pure #fff canvas. Warm it.
  • Tight leading-tight on body copy. Reading needs 1.6-1.8.
  • Colored pull quote backgrounds, gradient text on headlines, emoji in section rules.
  • Scroll-triggered stagger or parallax — breaks reading flow.
  • Card grids for articles — use stacked list with thumbnail + dek.
  • Sans-serif display headlines by default. If you need sans display, the user probably wants minimal variant.
  • Uppercase headlines. Sentence case, always (small caps for bylines is the exception).
  • CTAs with heavy pill backgrounds — prefer inline underlined links in the serif voice.

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Said here and by no other author read

  • use serif display fonts for headings and quotes
  • use humanist fonts for body text
  • use a wide reading column
  • enable OpenType features
  • use an ivory or warm white canvas
  • limit motion to simple fades

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