Two design skills · both proven

canvas-design vs design-taste-frontend-v1

Both skills were run through Claude twice: once on a fixed brief without the skill, once with it. The briefs differ because each is written for the job the skill claims to do, so compare each skill against its own baseline, then decide which difference matters for your work.

canvas-design

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.

Category: Design
Source: anthropics/skills · 181,998 stars
License: Not stated
Proof model: claude-sonnet-5-5
Brief: “Build a poster-style hero page for a jazz night at a small club, with the lineup and ticket link.”
Skill commit: dbd4588

design-taste-frontend-v1

The original taste-skill v1, kept for projects that depend on its exact behaviour. Opt-in: it runs only when called by name.

Category: Design
Source: Leonxlnx/taste-skill · 98,855 stars
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build the homepage for Northwind, a two-person brand and web design studio. Include a hero, a selected work section with four projects, services, how they work, a short founder note, and a contact section. Draw any project thumbnails with inline SVG and CSS.”
Skill commit: a9c73c3

We don’t pick a winner for you: the pages are the evidence. Both proofs can be repeated with the brief, model and commit shown above. See alternatives to canvas-design or alternatives to design-taste-frontend-v1.