Anti Slop

Anti-Slop Detection

The number one problem with AI-generated design and content is convergence toward the average. This skill identifies and eliminates it.

Visual Slop Patterns

Typography Defaults (flag and replace)

| Slop Font | Why It's Slop | Alternatives | |-----------|--------------|-------------| | Inter | AI default, zero personality | Satoshi, General Sans, Switzer, Cabinet Grotesk | | Roboto | Android default, bland | Plus Jakarta Sans, DM Sans, Outfit | | Arial/Helvetica | System fallback, lazy | Neue Haas Grotesk, Akkurat, Suisse | | Open Sans | "Safe" choice, invisible | Source Sans 3, Nunito Sans, Figtree | | Poppins | Overused geometric, trending slop | Lexend, Urbanist, Sora | | Space Grotesk | AI favorite, oversaturated | JetBrains Mono (code), Geist, Fira Code | | Montserrat | 2018 called | Clash Display, Manrope, Instrument Sans |

Color Slop (flag on sight)

• Purple-to-blue gradient on white background
• Teal + coral accent combo
• Generic "tech blue" (#4A90D9 vicinity)
• Indigo primary with gray secondary
• Any gradient that looks like a Stripe marketing page clone

Layout Slop (restructure)

• Hero section: big text, subtitle, two buttons, background image/gradient
• Three-column feature grid with icons
• Alternating left-right content blocks
• Testimonial carousel with headshots and quotes
• Footer with 4 link columns
• "Trusted by" logo bar

Copy Slop (rewrite)

• "Designed for [broad audience]"
• "The all-in-one platform for..."
• "Powerful yet simple"
• "Join thousands of [users] who..."
• "Get started in minutes"
• "Built for teams of all sizes"

Detection Process

1. Scan — Check output against known slop patterns above
2. Score — Count violations (0 = clean, 1-3 = mild, 4+ = full slop)
3. Diagnose — Identify root cause (lazy default? wrong reference? no creative brief?)
4. Prescribe — Provide specific alternatives that serve the same function with actual personality
5. Verify — Check replacement isn't just different slop

The Test

Ask: "If I showed this to someone without context, could they tell if it was made by a human designer or an AI?" If the answer is AI, it's slop. Start over.

What Anti-Slop Is NOT

• It's not anti-simplicity. Minimal design is great. Generic design is not.
• It's not anti-convention. Conventions exist for good reasons. But they should be chosen, not defaulted to.
• It's not chaos for chaos's sake. Weird isn't automatically good. Intentional is.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: Dragoon0x
• Source: Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.