What problem does it solve? Brand and design work often starts with decoration instead of strategy, producing visual systems that are generic, inconsistent, or disconnected from the project's actual context. This Skill translates a source-backed design brief into a complete, traceable visual language so every colour, font, and layout decision has a documented rationale. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Source-Backed Direction: Derives visual principles from a canonical design.md, marking every major decision as confirmed, inferred, or missing so assumptions stay visible. - Full Visual System Definition: Covers design language, logo rules, colour palette, typography roles, iconography, photography, layouts, illustration, and material direction with explicit misuse rules. - Visual Quality Gate: Ends with a checklist verifying traceability, hierarchy, readability, and project specificity before the system is applied. - Use Case: Before building a website, poster series, or social media kit for a new brand, run this Skill against the project's design.md to produce a complete visual rulebook that designers and AI tools can follow consistently. ## Quick Start Use the visual-language-system skill to define the complete visual identity for my project based on the attached design.md file.