Tool: borrow from a brand (awesome-design-md)

A collection of 84 DESIGN.md files. Each describes a real brand's website (Airbnb, Apple, Stripe, Claude and others) so an AI can build in that style.
Each file holds the brand's colours, type, corners, spacing and components, plus written rules and a Do's and Don'ts list.

A known brand has solved a problem like yours, and you want to see exactly how.
You want real values (font weights, corner sizes, how many accents) instead of guesses.
You want a finished DESIGN.md to learn the format from.

Find the brand's folder under design-md/ in github.com/voltagent/awesome-design-md.
The source's way: copy that DESIGN.md into your project root and tell your agent to use it, for example "build me a page that looks like this".
Read the Overview's "Key Characteristics" list for a quick summary of the brand.
Trust the tokens and the Do's and Don'ts over the Overview. One file (Notion) contradicts itself.
Read "Known Gaps" for what the copy couldn't capture, such as animation and hover.
Don't trust the README's one-line summaries. Some contradict the files (Cursor, ElevenLabs, Runway).
To ask for a brand that isn't there, use getdesign.md.

We used it: about 15 brands' files were weighed against what the site had to feel like, and three were picked.
It borrowed by fit, not fame. It picked the two or three brands whose problem was like ours and took one idea from each:
- a filterable photo wall from Pinterest;
- colours taken from real materials, from Starbucks;
- one accent kept for a single moment, the way Starbucks keeps gold for its rewards.

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