canvas-design

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Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to c…

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What it does

  • Form, space, color, composition
  • Images, graphics, shapes, patterns
  • Minimal text as visual accent
  • What is created: A design philosophy/aesthetic movement.
  • What happens next: Then, the same version receives the philosophy and EXPRESSES IT VISUALLY - creating artifacts that are 90% visual design, 10% essential text.
  • Write a manifesto for an art movement
  • The next phase involves making the artwork

Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23

Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

Source

Repository: https://github.com/anthropics/skills

canvas-design FAQ

What does the canvas-design skill do?

Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations. Form, space, color, composition Images, graphics, shapes, patterns

How do I install canvas-design?

Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill canvas-design --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/anthropics/skills.

Maintain canvas-design?

Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.

canvas-design on getagentictools
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npx agentictools info skills/anthropics-skills-canvas-design

The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.