Prompt to fix the purple-gradient, Inter-font sameness of AI-built websites
dr_cintas · x · 2026-10-10
drcintas catalogs the telltale defaults of AI-generated sites: purple-blue gradients, Inter/Roboto/Poppins, glowing hero blobs, frosted glass cards, rows of three identical feature cards, giant stat numbers, and the newer beige-background-with-italic-serif cliché.
He shares a paste-ready prompt for Claude built around:
- A banned-items list covering fonts, pill badges, rounded-square icons, pulsing dots, em dashes, and filler words like "seamless" and "world-class"
- Start from the product: three sentences on audience, intended feel, and one non-tech reference (magazine, shop, poster) that every design choice must trace back to
- Type & palette: pick a typeface pairing with a one-line rationale; derive one dominant plus one sparing accent color, passing WCAG AA contrast
- Break the layout: no two sections share a structure, at least one breaks the grid, hierarchy via scale and whitespace
- Copy like a founder talking to one customer; short sentences, no invented stats
- One signature detail unique to the product
The prompt ends by forcing the model to audit its code against the banned list item by item, fix every match, and report back — including banning swaps of one generic default for another.
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