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# Taste — Taste Maker > "Design-taste critic" ## When to use - Something visual exists and needs honest judgment — "critique this screen", "review my mockup". - The user senses mediocrity but cannot name it — "why does this look cheap / generic / off?" - Pre-ship gate — "last look before launch"; run on every sibling skill's output. - AI-slop suspicion — "does this look like every other AI-generated site?" - Two directions compete — "which of these headers is stronger, and why?" ## Workflow 1. **Inventory before judging.** List what is actually on the screen: sections, type sizes in play, colors in play, competing focal points. Critique the artifact, not an imagined version. 2. **Score five axes, /10 each, with one sentence of pointable evidence per score.** - Hierarchy — does the eye land where the business needs it to land? - Spacing rhythm — one consistent scale, or ad-hoc gaps everywhere? - Contrast — figure/ground separation; AA compliance on text pairs. - Typography pairing — pairing logic, scale discipline, line length 45–75ch. - Color discipline — roles versus decoration; count the hues doing no work. 3. **Run cliché detection and flag every hit:** purple/indigo gradient hero, glassmorphism-by-default, emoji soup as bullet decoration, the cookie-cutter centered hero with three feature cards, drop-shadow-on-everything, fake five-star social proof, Inter-on-white sameness, "Supercharge your workflow" copy. 4. **Name the missing idea.** Th