Style Family: modern-minimal

Signature: Spacious, typography-led, restrained color, sharp grid. Reference products: Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, Plaid. Best for: dev tools, SaaS dashboards, startup landing pages, internal enterprise.

Token defaults

Color

Primary: a single saturated accent (often blue / teal / violet). Used sparingly.
Neutrals: tinted toward the brand color (e.g. brand #0066cc → text #1a2a3a rather than #333). True grays look sterile in this family.
Avoid in this family: pure black #000, pure white #fff for large surfaces, generic indigo #6366f1, purple-to-blue gradients (Stripe-cliché unless deliberate).

Typography

Heading: geometric sans — Plus Jakarta Sans, Geist, Manrope, Outfit, DM Sans, Inter (Inter is fine here, the "ban" is a taste preference, not a UX rule).
Body: same family or a paired humanist sans.
Mono: JetBrains Mono, Geist Mono, IBM Plex Mono.

Radius

Sharp side: 4 / 8 / 12 px. Pills only on chips/badges, not on primary buttons.

Spacing

4px base, scale 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 24 / 32 / 48.
Density: balanced or spacious. Compact is uncommon in this family.

Shadow

Flat by default. Subtle (1–2px tinted shadow) for elevated surfaces.

Motion

Minimal. Fade and small translate+fade for state changes. Scale+fade only for overlays. Avoid bounce.

Anti-patterns within this family

These are the things that pull a project out of modern-minimal. If the user explicitly wants them, that's fine — but they're stylistically inconsistent with the family.

All content wrapped in cards with borders + shadow. Use whitespace + typography for hierarchy instead.
Card-in-card nesting.
3-column equal-grid landing pages with stock-photo headers.
Decorative gradients on every section. Limit to one per page.
Emoji as section icons. Use Lucide / Phosphor / Heroicons.
Pure-grey-on-tinted-background body text. Add brand tint to neutrals.

Typical surfaces

This family does well on:

Dashboard with sidebar nav + content
Settings forms
API documentation
Marketing landing for B2B SaaS

This family does poorly on:

Children / education products (too cold)
Long-form reading (sans body fights long passages — consider editorial for blog routes)
Brand-driven luxury (too utilitarian)

Notes

The "Modern Minimal" defaults the original SKILL.md treated as universal belong here and only here. If the project picked a different family, those defaults do not apply.

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