brand-book-paperlisted

Build a full brand guidelines document ("brand book") on the Paper design canvas (an editable, exportable file), and ship it with a matching agent-usable brand skill. Requires the Paper desktop app + its MCP. The brand can be your own or a client's. Use when the user wants a brand book / brand guidelines / identity system ON PAPER specifically, or wants an editable design-canvas version they can keep tweaking. If they just want a portable document (open anywhere, print to PDF, publish as an Artifact), use `brand-book-html` instead — that's the better default for most people. Two deliverables every time: (1) the Paper book (→ PDF), (2) a `<brand>-brand` skill that keeps that brand's product on-brand during agentic coding.
ordinarynerds/brand-book · ★ 1 · Data & Documents · score 77

Install: claude install-skill ordinarynerds/brand-book

# Brand Book Builder — Paper Turn a brand's raw assets (a logo, maybe a mascot, colours, fonts, a bit of voice) into two things: 1. **The brand book** — an 11-spread, Swiss-editorial guidelines document built on the **Paper** canvas (via the `plugin:paper-desktop:paper` MCP tools), exported to PDF. Editable by hand afterward. 2. **The companion brand skill** — a self-contained `<brand>-brand/` skill (SKILL.md + tokens + logo rules + voice + the actual asset files) that any coding agent loads to apply and update the brand in that brand's codebase. The brand is whoever's you're documenting — your own product, or a client's. Nothing here assumes a client relationship. Deliverable #2 is not optional. A brand book nobody can operationalize is a PDF that rots. The skill is how the brand stays alive in the product. **Both deliverables derive from one file: `brand.json`** — a machine-readable spec of the whole brand (colours as semantic roles + oklch, type, logo/mascot, voice, layout). Author it once at intake; generate the book, the companion skill, and the token files from it so they can't drift. Schema: `references/brand-json.md`. > **Paper vs HTML.** This skill builds an editable canvas in the Paper desktop app — reach > for it only when the user wants Paper specifically or wants to hand-edit the design. > Otherwise the sibling `brand-book-html` skill is the better default: it outputs one > portable HTML file that opens in any browser, prints to PDF, and publish