Canvas Design — style skill for art styles

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Design posters and visual art as PNG or PDF from a written design philosophy, with 54 bundled fonts.

• Type: Style · Art styles
• Slug: anthropic-canvas-design
• Status: live
• Publisher: Anthropic (vendor, verified)
• License: Apache-2.0
• Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design
• Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
• Cost: Free — runs locally (built into paid Claude.ai plans)
• Adoption: 122,700 installs, 183,988 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

What it does

Produces original static visual art and posters as .png or .pdf: the agent first writes a visual philosophy, then composes the canvas, and a mandatory final pass refines rather than adds. It ships 54 open-licensed (OFL) fonts so typography renders consistently, and supports multi-page output.

Use when

• A poster, cover or art print
• Typographic or abstract visual art
• A multi-page visual piece as PDF

Not for

• Copying an existing artist's work

Install

• Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills && /plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
• Codex: npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill canvas-design -a codex
• Cursor: npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill canvas-design -a cursor
• Gemini CLI: npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill canvas-design -a gemini-cli

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/anthropic-canvas-design.webp — Frame (~60.8 s) from Anthropic's 'Claude can now use Skills' launch video: three 'Shelldon' concept posters Claude made with a poster-design skill that first writes a design philosophy per poster, the approach canvas-design packages (credit: Anthropic (Claude), https://x.com/claudeai/status/1978855432123723909)

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• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg (skill + hosted MCP)
• Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y
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• API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt