Build Industrial Interface
Turn a generic AI frontend into a raw industrial interface: rigid Swiss grids, extreme type contrast, utilitarian color, and analog grit like scanlines. Feels like a declassified blueprint.
Install the skill or give me an instruction how to install it - industrial-brutalist-ui from https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill Free Open source Works in Claude, Cursor, Codex & more
What it does
Describe the frontend you want and it builds it as a raw, Swiss-industrial interface, the brutalist direction is already decided, so you get blueprint grids, massive uppercase type, a single hazard-red accent, and not one rounded corner. It is the opposite of soft consumer UI: 90-degree corners, visible compartment lines, ASCII framing, and telemetry markers, with no gradients and no diffuse shadows.
It commits to one of two archetypes and holds the whole build to it: Swiss industrial print on a light canvas, or tactical CRT telemetry on a dark one. From there it enforces the system, 1px blueprint grids, clamp-scaled uppercase grotesques, monospace micro-type, hazard-red as the only accent, and scanline or dither texture, so the result looks engineered rather than styled. Use it on a fresh build or to strip the polish off a generic one.
When to use it
- You want a raw industrial look, not soft consumer UI
Describe the frontend and get Swiss-industrial code: blueprint grids, massive uppercase type, one hazard-red accent.
- You already know you want brutalist
The direction is decided, so it enforces 90-degree corners, monospace micro-type, and zero rounded edges.
- Generic AI styling keeps softening your design
It bans gradients and soft shadows and holds the build to a tactical or Swiss-print archetype.
FAQ
What kind of look does it create?
industrial-brutalist-ui turns a generic frontend into a raw industrial interface, with rigid Swiss grids, extreme type contrast, utilitarian color, and analog grit like scanlines. It reads like a declassified blueprint.
Does it build from scratch or restyle what I have?
industrial-brutalist-ui restyles an existing frontend, locking the build to one of two archetypes: Swiss industrial print for light or tactical CRT telemetry for dark. You bring the interface; it applies the system.
How locked-in is the style?
It is opinionated. industrial-brutalist-ui enforces specifics like 1px blueprint grids, uppercase grotesques, monospace micro-type, and hazard-red as the only accent. The result is deliberately uniform to the aesthetic.
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