# Mono Color

Generate original one-ink or controlled two-ink editorial images from any theme...

- Repository: https://github.com/yanliudesign/mono-color-skill (3569 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-02
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add yanliudesign/mono-color-skill --skill mono-color -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add yanliudesign/mono-color-skill --skill mono-color -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add yanliudesign/mono-color-skill --skill mono-color -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add yanliudesign/mono-color-skill --skill mono-color -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Generate original one-ink or controlled two-ink editorial images from any theme, sentence, article idea, object, or reference photo. Always use this skill when the user asks for 单色海报、双色印刷、单色调视觉、蓝色/绿色孔版印刷、risograph、网点照片、复古或当代编辑排版、zine poster, monochrome editorial poster, duotone print, or asks to use the mono-color style. It uses an adaptive white, gray, or pale-beige substrate, no more than two printing inks, active negative space, terse human language, and strong serif/grotesk/mono typography without making retro styling the default or copying a source composition, wording, logo, or artwork. Produce both the final generation prompt and the generated raster image unless the user explicitly asks for prompt only.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Monocolor Editorial Print

Turn any user theme or image into an original printed editorial artifact with one stable visual language:

> adaptive neutral substrate + one or two inks + reproduced image + typographic tension + concise human voice

Do not imitate any one reference. Recombine the system below into a new composition every time.

## Default Deliverable

Create:

1. one final image-generation prompt;
2. one generated raster image;
3. a short recipe note naming palette, layout family, type pairing, and print process.

Save generated files under `~/Desktop/Claude skills/mono-color/` when a file path is available. Create the folder if needed. Stop at prompt-only only when the user explicitly asks for it or no image-generation capability is available.

## Input Reading

Extract four things before composing:

- **Subject:** the one person, object, scene, or idea that must remain recognizable.
- **Intent:** poetic observation, announcement, field note, personal statement, cultural poster, or specimen page.
- **Words:** preserve exact supplied text in its original language. When no text is supplied, invent one English display phrase of 2-8 words and preserve it across retries. Omit display text only when the user explicitly requests a text-free image.
- **Image role:** hero photograph, isolated specimen, cropped fragment, texture source, or no supplied image.
- **Representation:** faithful reproduction or abstract symbol extraction. Choose abstract symbol extraction when the user asks for abstract, artistic, loose, experimental, less realistic, or less photographic treatment.

For a complex topic, choose one concrete visual metaphor. Do not illustrate every point.

The rest: https://github.com/yanliudesign/mono-color-skill/blob/HEAD//SKILL.md