TasteMaker

Build a brand your AI coding tools can actually use

AI coding agents cannot make taste judgments. Ask one to build a settings page that matches your brand and it will invent a blue, pick a radius, and guess at your spacing. It is not being careless. It has no way to know.

TasteMaker fixes the input rather than the output. You build a brand the way people actually decide things, by looking at two options and picking one. Colors, typography, logo, positioning, components. Out the other end comes a brand kit in the formats machines read: CSS custom properties, W3C design tokens, Tailwind, shadcn, Radix, an Agent Skill package, a PDF guide, and a live MCP server your coding tool can pull from directly. It also exports native rules files for the tool you actually code with — Cursor rules (.cursor/rules), CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf, Cline, Gemini CLI, and six more — so the brand rides along in every session.

The whole thing takes a few minutes. It is free to build and five dollars to keep.

How it works

  1. Compare. You are shown pairs of real design directions and you pick the one you prefer. No color wheels, no font menus, no vocabulary you have to already know.
  2. Refine. TasteMaker resolves your choices into a coherent system: a color ramp with roles, a type scale, spacing, radius, and component styles that agree with each other.
  3. Export. Take it as a PDF brand guide, a token file in the format your stack uses, an Agent Skill package with ready-to-install rules files for 13 coding agents, or connect the MCP server so your coding agent reads the brand on demand.

The guides below cover the same ground by hand, for anyone who would rather understand the decisions than delegate them.

Learn brand design

Practical guides to brand design: choosing colors, building a type scale, writing design tokens, and what real brand guidelines actually contain. All learn.

Brand design case studies

Teardowns of how well-known brands build their visual systems, with every claim sourced and every unverifiable hex code flagged as such. All case studies.