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ui-styling

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Create beautiful, accessible user interfaces with shadcn/ui components (built on Radix UI + Tailwind), Tailwind CSS utility-first styling, and canvas-based visual designs. Use when building user interfaces, implementing design systems, creating responsive layouts, adding accessible components (dialogs, dropdowns, forms, tables), customizing themes and colors, implementing dark mode, generating visual designs and posters, or establishing consistent styling patterns across applications.

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# UI Styling Skill

Comprehensive skill for creating beautiful, accessible user interfaces combining shadcn/ui components, Tailwind CSS utility styling, and canvas-based visual design systems.

## Reference

- shadcn/ui: https://ui.shadcn.com/llms.txt
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/docs

## When to Use This Skill

Use when:
- Building UI with React-based frameworks (Next.js, Vite, Remix, Astro)
- Implementing accessible components (dialogs, forms, tables, navigation)
- Styling with utility-first CSS approach
- Creating responsive, mobile-first layouts
- Implementing dark mode and theme customization
- Building design systems with consistent tokens
- Generating visual designs, posters, or brand materials
- Rapid prototyping with immediate visual feedback
- Adding complex UI patterns (data tables, charts, command palettes)

## Core Stack

### Component Layer: shadcn/ui
- Pre-built accessible components via Radix UI primitives
- Copy-paste distribution model (components live in your codebase)
- TypeScript-first with full type safety
- Composable primitives for complex UIs
- CLI-based installation and management

### Styling Layer: Tailwind CSS
- Utility-first CSS framework
- Build-time processing with zero runtime overhead
- Mobile-first responsive design
- Consistent design tokens (colors, spacing, typography)
- Automatic dead code elimination

### Visual Design Layer: C
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