Aesop
SuisseIntl
a warm-cream #fffef2 background (a half-step warmer than white) with one humanist sans at weights 400/500 on a modular 1.13 ratio, no display face, no serif accent, no italics.
Your AI has read the whole internet. Nobody taught it what good looks like.
Palate is a web design MCP. It hands your assistant the decisions behind 2,169 real websites, read closely by people: the type, the grid, the accent discipline, the one considered idea each site rests on. Your agent reads them before it writes markup, and stops averaging.
This is what one reference looks like.
Six of the 2,169, picked to sit as far apart from each other as possible. Every value below was pulled off the live site and written down: the accent it actually uses, the faces it actually loads, and the single move the whole design rests on. Your agent reads this shape, for whichever references match what you are building.
A reference carries far more than this: layout notes, do and don't rules, component prompts, an Astro rebuild recipe, motion, copy voice and the screenshots. What you see here is the first three fields.
Linear
Inter Variable
all motion runs at a crisp 0.16s on cubic-bezier(0.25,0.46,0.45,0.94) so it clarifies rather than performs, the opposite of decorative
Huge
Monument Grotesk
one type family at one weight, near-square 1-2px corners and vast black space signal taste through restraint.
Lando Norris
Brier"Mona Sans Variable"
each section is a magazine spread of asymmetric photo cards (a portrait top-left, the dominant action shot centre, a landscape behind right, a small quote inset) with sport-magazine…
Tonal
GT ExpandedGT America
a premium warm-neutral system runs near-black (#1c1c1a) on warm bone (#f6f6f1) and grey (#f4f4f4) with one electric teal (#11ddc4) as the only accent.
Orage Studio
PPSupplyMono
a PPSupplyMono single-font system on pure black with white and CRT-terminal green (rgb(0,170,0)) plus grey (rgb(51,51,51)) secondary text, across a tiny four-step scale (8/10/12/20px…
One line, then your agent has it.
An MCP server is a tool your assistant can call mid-build. Add it once at user scope and it is there in every project, not only the directory you happened to be standing in.
# Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http palate https://mcp.palatemcp.com/api/mcp The free tier is 20 deep reads a month, enough to survey the library and start. No card.
We ran our own grader on this page.
The same rubric we point at strangers' sites, pointed at ours. The version this replaced scored 44 out of 100, and the judge told us "nothing here a template could not have produced". It was right, so we rebuilt the page and graded it again. The number stays here, dated, because a company selling design judgement should be willing to publish its own, including when it is unflattering.
82
This page, design craft 79. Was 44.
Graded 4 August 2026 at palatemcp.com/grade
Six weighted dimensions, design craft first. Anything we cannot measure is left out of the score rather than guessed, and the report tells you which.