Design, layout & typography

Agents don’t just place layers — they’re held to a design bar. Before composing anything with a visible design surface, an agent derives a style ledger for the project (palette roles, a type pairing and ramp, a spacing scale, corner radius, easing defaults) and takes every visual value from it, so the result reads as one designed piece rather than assembled parts.

Ask for

Build a launch video for this brief — use our brand from mixture.dev.

This frame feels cluttered. Fix the hierarchy.

Make the stat cards feel like one family — same radius, same shadow language.

What agents know how to do

• Real material first. Assets decide the ceiling: the agent inventories what’s in the project, mines your website for the real typeface, logo, and palette, or generates imagery — before composing. Type over a gradient is treated as the floor, not a style.
• Your components before lookalikes. Agents list your saved components and read their exact parameters — and they’re nudged to compose from them rather than hand-building imitations. Build your brand into Account-scoped components and assets once, and “make a video from this script” comes out in your style every time — and because instances stay linked, updating a component updates every video that uses it, no re-editing. (Saved templates — whole compositions as starting points — are coming soon.)
• Auto-layout for anything UI-shaped. Cards, badges, button rows, and lists are built as auto-layout groups — so they stay aligned through every edit and retime, instead of hand-placed coordinates that drift.
• Typography craft — pairings, a deliberate type ramp, tracking and case decisions, safe areas, and contrast rules (text is always backed when it sits over media).
• The polish pass — layered shadows instead of one fat blur, grain over gradients to kill banding, surface highlights, glass panels done properly.
• Self-review before “done”. The agent renders real frames of its own work and critiques them — overlap, contrast, hierarchy — and must fix what it finds before it reports back. “Looks right in the JSON” doesn’t count.

You stay in control

The ledger’s choices land as ordinary fills, fonts, and layout groups — restyle anything in the properties panel, and ask the agent to “apply that everywhere” to propagate a change you made by hand.