About Curio
Curio is a design style library built for AI. Each entry packages an established design style — a movement, a brand, or a cultural tradition — into design tokens, worked examples, and a machine-readable spec that your AI can apply directly to your slides, your website, or your product.
What is in the library
— styles in the library, with new ones added every week.
The collection spans design movements such as Bauhaus and Swiss International, brands such as Stripe and Figma, and cultural traditions such as Edo ukiyo-e and Islamic geometry. Every style ships as a DESIGN.md spec that describes its colors, typography, spacing, and composition — written to be read by an AI, not only by a person.
Why we build it
Good design used to be a privilege. If you could not design and could not hire a designer, you settled for a template.
That changed when everyone got an AI. An AI can do the applying — what it lacks is taste it can rely on. Curio supplies exactly that part: real styles, documented deeply enough for an AI to use them well.
The goal is simple: put good design within everyone's reach.
How Curio is used
AI agents are Curio's direct users — they connect over MCP, follow a share link, or read a downloaded spec. People are the beneficiaries: you pick a style you like, and your AI does the rest.
Who makes Curio
Curio is independent and self-funded — a one-person studio publishing under the handle VoltWake. The library, the site, and the tooling are built and maintained by the same pair of hands, with no growth team and no content farm behind them.
Elsewhere
Curio is also listed on the official MCP Registry as com.designbycurio/curio.
Contact
Questions, ideas, something broken? Get in touch