kami

Why

Kami (紙, かみ) is the Japanese word for paper: the quiet surface on which a finished idea finally lands.

Most document design drifts into two failure modes: generic corporate gray, or SaaS hype gradients. Neither reads like something a person actually made with care.

Kami holds one design idea across every format: warm parchment canvas, a single ink-blue accent, serif for authority, sans for utility, editorial whitespace tuned for print. Inspired by Anthropic's visual language.

It is part of the Kaku · Waza · Kami trilogy: Kaku (書く) is how you write code, Waza (技) is the habits you practice, Kami (紙) is the paper your work ships on.

Install

Claude Code

npx skills add tw93/kami -a claude-code -g -y

Codex

npx skills add tw93/kami -a codex -g -y

Claude Desktop

Download ZIP, open Customize > Skills > "+" > Create skill, upload the ZIP.

See it

Just tell Claude what you need: "帮我生成一份白皮书", "生成一份项目方案", "build me a resume", "写一份推荐信", "make a slide deck for my talk", "帮我做一份作品集". The skill auto-triggers, no slash command needed.

Design

Six document types, each with Chinese and English variants: One-Pager, Long Doc, Letter, Portfolio, Resume, and Slides. Three inline SVG diagram primitives also ship. Kami picks the right variant based on the language you write in.

Eight invariants hold across every document:

1. Page background #f5f4ed parchment, not pure white
2. Single accent color: ink-blue #1B365D
3. All neutrals warm-toned. No #6b7280, no #888
4. English: serif for headlines and body. Chinese: serif headlines, sans body. Sans for UI elements only
5. Serif weight locked at 500. No bold headlines
6. Line-heights: tight headlines 1.1 to 1.3, dense body 1.4 to 1.45, reading body 1.5 to 1.55. Never 1.6+
7. Tag backgrounds must be solid hex. rgba() triggers a WeasyPrint double-rectangle bug
8. Depth via ring shadow or whisper shadow. No hard drop shadows

Chinese fonts: TsangerJinKai02 serif + Source Han Sans. TsangerJinKai is a commercial font, for commercial use please obtain a license from tsanger.cn. Fallback: Noto Serif CJK SC, Songti SC, Georgia.

English fonts: Newsreader serif for headlines and body + Inter sans for UI elements only, both OFL open source. Fallback: Charter/Georgia, Helvetica Neue/Arial.

Full spec: references/design.md, references/design.en.md. Cheatsheet: CHEATSHEET.md, CHEATSHEET.en.md.

Background

I invest in US equities and regularly ask AI to generate analysis reports. The output always looked like a default Google Doc: bland, inconsistent, forgettable. I can't stand ugly documents, especially when every report comes out looking different from the last one. So I kept tweaking the typography, colors, and spacing until I had something I actually wanted to read.