Design Studio — Professional Design Skill for OpenClaw#

What You Get#

• ⏱️ 30 seconds per cover instead of 2 hours in Canva or Figma
• 📊 Auto quality scoring (1-10) — stop guessing if your design is good enough
• 📦 Batch-generate 50+ covers from a CSV in one command
• 🔄 A/B test 4 variants instantly — pick the winner by score, not gut feeling
• 🎬 Animated GIF banners — no After Effects needed
• 📱 Device mockups in seconds — laptop, phone, tablet, any device
• 💧 Watermarking — protect your work in tile, corner, or center mode

When to Use#

Activate this skill when you need to:

• Create covers for freelance profiles (Fiverr, Kwork, Upwork, Freelance.ru)
• Generate banners for social media, channels, repos
• Design logos (text-based, icon, combined)
• Build portfolio cards or presentations
• Create avatars (initials, abstract, brand)
• Prepare UI mockups or visual prototypes
• Check design quality with automated scoring

Available Tools#

ToolPurposeCommandPillow (Python)Raster graphics, banners, avatarspython3 -c "from PIL import Image"ImageMagickConvert, effects, compositingconvert, magicksvgwrite (Python)SVG generationpython3 -c "import svgwrite"CairoSVG (Python)SVG → PNG/PDF renderingpython3 -c "import cairosvg"InkscapeSVG editing (CLI)inkscape --export-type=pngGIMPAdvanced raster processing (CLI)gimp -i -b '(script-fu ...)'fonttools (Python)Font metrics and kerningpython3 -c "from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont"

Fonts#

Find system fonts:

bash

fc-list : family | grep -i "name"
fc-match --format="%{file}\n" "PT Sans:Bold"

Recommended Cyrillic: PT Sans/Serif, Roboto, Open Sans, Montserrat, DejaVu Sans.

Scripts (12)#

Basic:

• scripts/generate_banner.py — banners (size, palette, style, fonts)
• scripts/generate_avatar.py — avatars (gradient/flat/circle, 1024x1024)
• scripts/check_design.py — auto quality scoring (contrast, balance, palette → 1-10)

Marketplace covers:

• scripts/generate_marketplace_cover.py — Fiverr (1280×769), Kwork (1200×800), Freelance.ru, Upwork (1584×396)

Advanced:

• scripts/mockup_generator.py — device mockups (laptop/phone/tablet/monitor/hand_phone)
• scripts/design_pipeline.py — full pipeline: generate → check → auto-improve → final
• scripts/generate_svg_library.py — SVG library (23 elements: icons, badges, frames)

Batch & effects:

• scripts/ab_variants.py — A/B test: 4 cover variants with different palettes + score comparison
• scripts/generate_gif_banner.py — animated GIF banners (fade_in/slide/pulse/typewriter)
• scripts/watermark.py — watermarks (bottom_right/center/tile)
• scripts/batch_generate.py — mass cover generation from CSV file

SVG library (references/svg_elements/): 10 icons, 5 badges, 5 shapes, 3 frames — ready to embed.

Print & Document Design#

Also supports brochures, catalogs, and multi-page docs via Scribus, LaTeX, Typst, WeasyPrint, Pandoc, LibreOffice.

Workflow#

1. Brief — define task, audience, style
2. Palette — choose from references/color-palettes.md (20 curated palettes)
3. Fonts — pick a pair from references/font-pairings.md (15 tested pairs)
4. Rules — follow references/design-rules.md
5. Create — use scripts or tools directly
6. Check — run scripts/check_design.py
7. Iterate — fix by recommendations, re-check

References#

• references/design-rules.md — professional design rules
• references/color-palettes.md — 20 curated color palettes
• references/font-pairings.md — 15 tested font pairings