PerfectPalette

Ship a design spec your AI can actually use

An 8-step workflow that turns your palette into a complete design.md. Canonical markdown that Claude, Cursor, and Copilot consume to generate on-brand code.

design.md
# Acme Dashboard
## Product Overview
Brand: Acme · SaaS Dashboard · B2B
## Palette
5 colors · 6 roles
## Typography
Inter · Major Third · 6 roles
## Spacing
4px base · 8 steps
## Components
## Iconography
## Guardrails

Readiness

92
AI-ready
v1.0.0

8design stages

12canonical sections

1deterministic output

8 layered steps, one complete spec

Each step builds on the previous — your intent drives typography, typography informs components, and guardrails validate everything. Nothing is skipped, nothing is guessed.

  • Intent, Typography, Spacing, Components, Iconography, and Guardrails
  • AI-assisted cleanup polishes rough notes into structured sections
  • Curated libraries for brand attributes, design principles, and anti-patterns

Intent

Product overview, tone, principles

Palette

Colors, roles, health score

Typography

Families, scale, roles

4

Spacing

Base unit, steps, density

5

Components

Preset, buttons, cards

6

Iconography

Library, style, size scale

7

Guardrails

Accessibility, do/don't rules

8

Export

Build, preview, download

Three-score readiness dashboard

See exactly how complete your spec is before exporting. Three independent scores — Palette Health, Design System coherence, and design.md readiness — with actionable remediation for every gap.

  • Transparent scoring with hard gates and remediation advice
  • Status progresses from incomplete → viable → strong → ready to export
  • Versioned snapshots so you can track how the spec evolves over time

Readiness Dashboard

Palette Health92
Design System74
design.md Readiness58

Canonical markdown for AI coding tools

The exported design.md follows a fixed section order so AI tools and teammates always know where to look. Drop it into your repo as CLAUDE.md context, paste it into Cursor, or hand it off to any coding agent.

  • Structured for Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and any LLM-based tool
  • Complete coverage: palette, typography, spacing, surfaces, components, icons, guardrails
  • Deterministic output — identical inputs always produce identical markdown
# Acme Dashboard — design.md
## Product Overview
Brand: Acme · Type: SaaS Dashboard
## Design Intent
Tone: Professional, minimal, data-first
## Palette
3 colors, 6 roles
## Typography
Inter · Major Third · 6 roles
## Spacing
4px base · 8 steps · Comfortable
## Components
...
## Iconography
...
## Guardrails
...

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