thumbnail-set-designerlisted
Install: claude install-skill jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills
# Thumbnail Set Designer
Ask an image generator for seven thumbnails and you get seven versions of one
idea, because nothing told it to be different. This turns a title and a hook into
a set of specific, deliberately unlike prompts, and carries the traps that
otherwise cost you a whole generation run.
Pair it with `thumbnail-legibility-check` to choose between the results.
## When to use
- Generating several thumbnail or cover-image options for one piece of content.
- Every option coming back as a variation of the same composition.
- On-image text rendering wrong.
- Building a repeatable system rather than making one thumbnail.
## Step 1: plan the set
```bash
python scripts/rotation.py "Your video title" --count 7
```
Standard library only, `--json` for machine output. It pairs seven distinct
layouts against rotating accent colours, seeded from the title so the same
subject always produces the same plan.
**The layouts and colours in the script are a neutral starting set, not a house
style.** Replace `LAYOUTS` and `COLOURWAYS` with your own before real use. What
matters is the shape of the system:
- **Distinct means the eye lands somewhere different**, not that the crop moved.
A face-left layout and a face-right layout are one layout.
- **One accent per image**, rotating across the set, so a channel looks like one
channel while individual videos stay distinguishable.
- **Determinism over randomness.** A seeded rotation is reproducible and
debuggable. Random assi