The parts of picking a design direction that the gallery answers in pictures and nothing else here answers in prose.
"It looks AI-generated" is the most common complaint about vibe-coded sites, and it is not vague. Someone mined 3.2 million Reddit posts and ranked the specific things that give a site away. Here is the list, why each one happens, and what fixes it.
2026-08-10 · 7 min read
Most palettes are picked in light mode and inverted later, which is when the muted text goes illegible and the borders disappear. Dark mode is not a filter over a palette — it is a second set of decisions about the same six roles, and there are only four of them worth getting right.
2026-08-09 · 7 min read
Most font-pairing advice is a list of pairs that worked for someone else. The useful version is a short procedure — decide contrast, decide the split, then set four numbers — and it gets you to a defensible answer in about ten minutes without knowing anything about type history.
2026-08-08 · 7 min read