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One SKILL.md (the playbook) + one starter template. A preview:

Primary Doodle Deck

When to use

• Your deck needs to feel human and approachable — a classroom, community, or creative pitch, not a boardroom
• You want a hand-drawn look with a strict color discipline: three primary inks, nothing else
• Your slides are idea-heavy and need doodles that explain, not decorate
• You need a deck a non-designer can extend: the doodle rules must be simple enough to follow by hand
• You want playful without childish — the doodles carry structure, the type stays grown-up

Workflow

1. Set the palette and paper (input: deck topic → output: style rules)
   Fix the palette before any slide exists: black ink for all lines and type, and three primary inks — red, yellow, blue — used as fills and highlights only. No gradients, no pastels, no fourth accent. Background is white or warm off-white, like paper. Type is one grotesque or humanist sans for headlines and body, set in black, with a single handwritten-style font reserved for annotations and labels — never for body text. Write these rules down as the deck's one-page style sheet; every slide gets checked against it.
2. Build the doodle vocabulary (input: deck content → output: doodle library)
   Draw a small library of reusable doodles, each in black line with at most one primary fill: arrows, circles, stars, underlines, checkmarks, speech bubbles, stick figures, boxes, magnifiers, lightbulbs. Each doodle has one job — the arrow points, the circle highlights, the star marks the key number. Keep strokes rough but controlled: consistent line weight, no photorealism, no clip-art. If a doodle needs more than two strokes to be understood, it's too complicated — simplify it. The library stays small (12–18 marks) so the deck looks like one hand drew it.
3. Structure the slides (input: outline → output: slide plan)
   Plan the deck slide by slide: title, agenda, one idea per content slide, one proof slide per claim, close. Every content slide gets exactly one job and one hero element — one diagram, one number, one comparison. Doodles sit in fixed roles: underline the headline's key word, circle the number that matters, arrow from cause to effect. A slide with more than three doodles is a slide with no hierarchy — remove doodles until the eye lands on the message first and the marks second.

Template preview

Primary Doodle Deck — Style Sheet + Slide Template

Hand-drawn doodles, three primary inks, strict rules. Fill in the style sheet first, then plan slides.

Style sheet (one page — the deck's law)

• Palette: black ink (all lines + type) + red + yellow + blue (fills + highlights only)
• Forbidden: gradients, pastels, a fourth accent color
• Background: {white / warm off-white} — like paper
• Headline + body type: {one grotesque or humanist sans}, black
• Annotation type: {one handwritten-style font} — annotations and labels ONLY, never body text
• Rule: one dominant primary color per slide; three primaries on one slide almost never

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