Quire

One sky-blue, five formats, no second color.

A cold-toned, chromatically monochrome design system for editorial documents.

The name

A quire is the oldest unit of bookmaking — a sheaf of folded sheets, gathered before they became a book. Many quires, bound together, made a codex.

Not a template, not a theme. The unit you compose editorial documents from.

What it is

Quire is a constraint system for editorial documents — playbooks, white papers, single-page reports — that share one design language and produce typeset PDFs. Cool canvas, single sky-blue accent, serif carries hierarchy, no second color anywhere.

See it · five outputs, one system

White paper · A4 portrait · 8–30 pp HTML · PDF

Single-page report · A4 portrait, fixed · 1 pp HTML · PDF

Landing page · A4 width, continuous HTML · PDF

Playbook · 11×8.5in landscape · 10–80 pp HTML · PDF

Slides · 16:9 HTML deck · 5–60 slides HTML · PDF

Same palette, same typography, same component library — five document shapes. Click any thumbnail to open the live HTML; the PDF link gives the typeset version.

Install

As an agent skill (recommended)

One command, works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Goose, and every other agent the skills CLI supports:

npx skills add FoundDream/Quire

Claude Code

npx skills add FoundDream/Quire -a claude-code -g -y

Codex

npx skills add FoundDream/Quire -a codex -g -y

Generic agents

npx skills add FoundDream/Quire -a '*' -g -y

Manual install (no Node required)

git clone https://github.com/FoundDream/Quire.git ~/.claude/skills/quire

For project-scoped install, clone into <project>/.claude/skills/quire instead.

Palette

canvas       #f7fbff     cool canvas, never pure white
ink          #131b2a     primary text, cool-toned near-black
accent       #1cb2f5     sky blue — the only chromatic color
accent-tint  #c8ebfa     chapter divider fill, tag background
accent-deep  #0d8ace     body links, AA-passing accent text

The accent is locked. There is no palette to pick from, and no second chromatic hue allowed.

Structure

• SKILL.md — agent entry point: triggers, decision steps, working modes
• CHEATSHEET.md — one-page quick reference
• references/ — full spec (design / writing / anti-patterns / production)
• assets/styles/ — shared system CSS (typography source of truth)
• assets/templates/ — fillable HTML templates
• assets/output/ — rendered demos (the self-introducing playbook lives here)
• scripts/ — build (build.sh), linter (check.py), README/index thumbnails (screenshots.sh)

Triggers

• "做一份 playbook / 白皮书 / 报告"
• "build me a playbook / typeset a white paper / single-page report"
• "turn this content into an editorial PDF"

Inspired by

The repository structure was originally learned from tw93/kami. ♥️

Community

Discuss on Linux DO.

License

MIT.