Brand.yml vs Taste Skill

Brand.yml

By Posit

Define your brand colors, fonts, and logos once, use them everywhere in Shiny and Quarto.

Taste Skill

By Leonxlnx

Get a landing page with real art direction instead of the generic AI-made website look.

Brand.yml

• Creates a single YAML file that stores your brand colors, fonts, and logo files
• Automatically applies your branding to Shiny web apps and Quarto documents
• Supports light and dark mode variants for colors and logos
• Integrates with Google Fonts and custom typography
• Works across HTML reports, dashboards, slides, and PDFs

Taste Skill

• Offers three researched design directions and picks the one that fits your business
• Writes the full page copy, with short headlines and one clear call to action
• Finds free, properly credited photos and footage from open museum and archive collections
• Bans common AI design clichés like gradients, glowing cards, and badge labels
• Checks the page at desktop, tablet, and phone sizes and fixes problems

Reach for Brand.yml when…

• You're setting up brand guidelines for a team's reports and dashboards
• You need consistent colors and fonts across multiple documents without manual styling
• You're creating Shiny apps or Quarto reports and want them to match your brand
• You want to update your brand palette once and have it apply everywhere

Reach for Taste Skill when…

• You are building a landing page and want it to look premium, not templated
• Your current site looks like every other AI-generated page
• You need a one-page site for a cafe, event, product, or portfolio
• You want a design review of an existing marketing page