maylogger/roc-aesthetic

This repository is a style guide skill meant for AI coding agents, describing a very specific visual aesthetic the author calls "ROC aesthetic," based on the look of old Taiwanese government websites, outdated public information portals, and low budget municipal announcement pages from the era of Taiwan's Nationalist Party administration. Instead of making a website look modern and clean, the goal is the opposite: dense information, lots of borders and tables, formal and overly polite Traditional Chinese wording, slightly oversaturated colors, and sections that look like they were patched together over the years by different outside contractors, all while staying usable. The README describes this as a "maintained for years but still works" look rather than a joke or a purely ugly design. The package includes a main SKILL.md file that explains when to use the style and how to pick which rule file to read, an AGENTS.md file for general purpose coding agents, and a CLAUDE.md file for Claude based agents. A prompts/style.md file gives one combined style brief that can be used directly as a prompt for generating a front end. Beyond that, separate rule files under rules/ cover layout, spacing, small visual imperfections, color choices (ROC blue, saturated red, warning yellow, silver gray, bright cyan links, and cheap gold accents), old mixed system fonts, banners, buttons, tables, images, and copywriting tone. The README lists good use cases: converting a UI that looks too clean or too much like a modern SaaS product into this dated government portal look, reviewing whether an existing screen matches the aesthetic, or writing formal Traditional Chinese interface text with a heavy bureaucratic tone. It explicitly says this is not suited for premium brands, modern fintech products, or minimalist interfaces styled like Apple, Stripe, Linear, or Vercel. Agents are expected to read the relevant rule files for a task rather than guessing, and ideally read the full set before applying the style.