Bogdan Baciu Design

Apply Bogdan Baciu's editorial personal-site brand to digital artifacts while preserving the user's content and judgment. The brand should feel like a hand-finished finance/technology editorial surface: warm paper, a single sky-blue accent, display serif headlines, restrained mono chrome, flat borders, and dense but readable financial exhibits.

Source files

• Load references/brand-system.md when you need detailed rules, artifact-mode guidance, or a compact token summary.
• Copy from assets/design-system/colors_and_type.css for web/static HTML work.
• Copy assets/design-system/fonts/ when the output can self-host fonts.
• Copy imagery, favicons, logos, previews, or UI kits from assets/design-system/assets/, preview/, and ui_kits/ only when the artifact actually needs them.
• Use fixtures/brand-regression/*.html as visual regression fixtures when checking that the global brand and .db-scope financial-artifact styling still render separately.
• Use fixtures/brand-regression/screenshot-contract.json as the browser screenshot checklist for those fixtures; it stays public-safe and stores selectors/expectations instead of private screenshots.
• Use reskin.example.json as the compatibility example when wiring this brand into the reskin skill.

Provenance

• Brand source: local Bogdan-Baciu-Design-System repo.
• Packaging pattern: adapted from the official Anthropic brand-guidelines skill's compact palette/type/fallback approach; brand values and rules here are Bogdan-specific.

Workflow

1. Identify the artifact type: website/static HTML, app UI, slide deck, document, data table, or financial-model exhibit.
2. Preserve the user's substantive content. Do not invent public-facing body copy; use TBU for missing prose.
3. Apply the global brand outside financial exhibits:
   • warm cream paper, ink text, Puddles sky-blue accent
   • Instrument Serif for display and ledes
   • Geist for body/UI
   • JetBrains Mono for eyebrows, chips, chrome, code, and utility labels
   • flat borders and hairlines, not shadows
4. Keep financial-model artifacts inside .db-scope or a clearly equivalent local scope. Do not let .db-scope colors, shadows, or typography leak into the global site brand.
5. Prefer the existing token names and component classes before inventing new CSS. For tables, prefer div.bbt-wrap + table.bbt.
6. Translate the brand carefully for non-web artifacts:
   • use exact hex approximations where the target cannot use OKLCH
   • use available font fallbacks when self-hosted fonts are impossible
   • keep the same hierarchy, spacing, and palette separation
7. Verify the result. For web work, inspect across mobile and desktop widths, check text wrapping, confirm assets load, and confirm .db-scope stays scoped. For decks/docs, inspect rendered output rather than trusting source formatting alone.
8. Before final delivery, scan for unresolved TBU placeholders in the output artifact. TBU is acceptable while drafting missing owner-authored copy; it must be reported explicitly and should not remain in a final publishable file unless the user approves the gap.

Core rules

• Two palettes coexist. Global Puddles governs normal brand surfaces; .db-scope governs embedded financial-model artifacts only.
• Use one global accent: sky-blue. Rust is reserved for text selection and focus treatment, not general fills or calls to action.
• Default radius is sharp 2px. The only general radii are sharp 2px, card 16px, and pill 999px.
• Body prose is justified with soft hyphenation where the medium supports it. Headings use balanced wrapping; long ledes use justified/pretty wrapping.
• Depth comes from borders, rules, tables, and spacing. Avoid global shadows, glassmorphism, gradients, decorative blobs, and stock-looking decoration.
• Icons are sparse. Use existing logos/assets or restrained utility icons only when the interface needs them.
• When a layout feels cramped, widen the container before shrinking the type.

Output contract

When applying this skill, report:

• which source files/assets were used
• any token, font, image, or icon substitutions
• whether .db-scope was used
• any unresolved TBU placeholders and why they remain
• which checks were run or which rendered surfaces were inspected

Skill maintenance checks

When editing packaged tokens, fixtures, or the reskin example, run:

PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 scripts/check_token_integrity.py
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 -m unittest tests/test_brand_fixtures.py

The token checker protects the core palette/type/font contract; the fixture test protects the public-safe screenshot contract and the reskin.example.json manifest shape.

What this skill does not do

• Do not author the owner's public voice from scratch.
• Do not merge the global and .db-scope palettes.
• Do not add a broad icon library, theme gradient, or shadow language unless the target repo already requires it.
• Do not replace a repo's existing production design system without first mapping the Bogdan tokens onto its local conventions.

Worked examples

Example 1: Personal finance HTML

User: "Brand this budget pacing page."

Do:

• Use assets/design-system/colors_and_type.css and self-host the fonts/ directory next to the artifact if it must open from disk.
• Keep the global page in the Puddles paper/sky system.
• Put any dense table or operating-model exhibit inside .db-scope.
• Run the repo's brand_lint.py when present, then inspect mobile and desktop widths for overflow.

Do not:

• Copy inlined CSS from a prior artifact.
• Invent new chip colors or use rust as a call-to-action fill.

Example 2: Client-facing artifact

User: "Make this client dashboard look polished."

Do not apply this skill directly. Client context wins. Use the client design system (e.g. an installed *-design skill) unless the user explicitly asks for Dan's personal brand.

Example 3: Plain document or one-pager

User: "Make this internal one-pager feel like my brand."

Do:

• Preserve the factual content and leave missing owner-authored copy as TBU.
• Use Instrument Serif for the main title, Geist for body/UI text, and JetBrains Mono for labels or provenance lines.
• Keep depth flat: borders, rules, spacing, no global shadows or gradients.

Example 4: Financial model exhibit embedded in a broader page

User: "The model table needs to look like finance, but the page should still be mine."

Do:

• Use the global brand for the page shell.
• Use .db-scope only around the model exhibit.
• Format numbers with en-dash zeros, parenthesized negatives, and provenance colors from number-formats.