Canvas Design

Create posters and graphic layouts with a clear arrangement of text and visuals.

Available in app
Abstract poster layouts with a set square and drawing pencil.

Overview

Posters and graphic layouts as crafted objects with a thesis: write a short visual philosophy first — name the direction in two words, 'Brutalist Joy', 'Chromatic Silence' — saying how it lives in space, color, scale and composition; then deduce the quiet conceptual thread from your brief and compose one canvas at ninety percent visual, ten percent essential text.

The artifact is generated from a layout spec, using the fonts' real measurements to block the two classic disasters — content running off the page and text colliding — with coverage checks for Chinese and Japanese glyphs. Measurements catch blunders, not every optical edge case, so a human look is the final step. Fonts come bundled; nothing external is downloaded.

SVG and web pages are the source files; a full-size image or PDF is produced by rendering through the app for real, never promised from an unrendered file.

Where it helps

  • Compose an event poster carrying a subtle conceptual thread
  • Build a consistent masthead system for a report or column
  • Produce mixed Chinese/Latin visual material with glyph coverage checked
  • Derive a full palette and composition from a one-line style prompt
#design#poster#layout#export#fonts

Examples

Examples describe the request and the shape of the expected deliverable; they are not completed run results.

Example prompt

Tone-set a poster for a jazz book club: write a Concrete-Poetry-style philosophy, hide a Bill Evans tune title in the composition, then output the poster layout and SVG.

Expected output

A philosophy file, a layout carrying the quiet reference and the generated SVG — off-page and overlap faults caught at generation.

Example prompt

I need this poster as a full-size PNG: render it in the app and capture the real image — don't claim the source file exports raster by itself.

Expected output

A capture-backed image with its provenance stated; formats that were never rendered don't appear in the delivery.

Requirements and limits

Install platforms
iOS
Script runtime
Runs scripts in the task environment
Minimum app version
1.7.62
Reviewed permission scope
Capabilities
Interact with web pagesObserve web pagesRemote executionRead workspace filesWrite workspace files
Reviewed tools
browser.click · browser.exportFile · browser.navigate · browser.observe · browser.screenshot · exec.localService · Shell commands · jobs.cancel · jobs.result · jobs.status · jobs.submit · workspace.publishOutput
Review decision
Approved
Review stage
Guest execution qualification
Reviewed on
2026-10-27
Implementation and runtime details
Adaptation stage
frozen
Tools
browser.click · browser.exportFile · browser.navigate · browser.observe · browser.screenshot · exec.localService · Shell commands · jobs.cancel · jobs.result · jobs.status · jobs.submit · workspace.publishOutput
Capabilities
Interact with web pagesObserve web pagesRemote executionRead workspace filesWrite workspace files
Runtime environment
linux / riscv64 · guest-verified

License and source

Source and trace details

License

Apache-2.0

Apache-2.0 (per-skill LICENSE.txt)

Pinned per-skill Apache-2.0 license preserved; Floe renderer code is separately identified as MPL-2.0. Bundled font faces, where present, retain their full SIL OFL notices and exact hashes.

Image and material attribution

Image attribution
Floe original, AI-assisted illustration.
Source
https://github.com/anthropics/skills
Upstream path
skills/canvas-design
Upstream pin
dbd4588f9e
Source checked
2026-10-26
Publisher
JiangNanGenius
Publication commit (retrieval)
25e07dbeeb6cc93c2fe83ddc72a34302cc40832a
Audited source commit
84c524b6fb483e4cad94db076e7d9c9962966c19
Signed catalog digest
iOS 46196ba57ed7ea7f22085e74b113207f31193e820ab8983cf7a60eee953f2340 · Android 16de89d019e2057804a40f215485ccb09d5495a25864b34d681168eeaf8f9697
Publication snapshot (UTC)
2026-10-31

Publication commit 25e07dbeeb, audited source 84c524b6fb; catalog digest iOS 46196ba57ed7… · Android 16de89d019e2….

Versions and status

Version records ship with the signed catalog; the target and released versions are shown below.

Adaptation
Ready
Publication state
Curated skills are available
Deep adaptation
Yes
Released version
iOS 1.1.0