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Canvas Design

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Still visual art delivered as a .png or print-ready .pdf: a poster, a flyer, a one-page piece meant to be looked at rather than clicked.

Situations it fits

You want a big print poster for the office chai station: "CHAI FIRST, QUESTIONS LATER" in a beautiful retro style.
Canvas Design. A poster is a static piece of visual art delivered as PNG or PDF - canvas-design's home turf. frontend-design is about UI for software you're building; this is wall art.
Wedding season: you're making the invitation - an elegant one-page design the printer needs as a high-quality PDF.
Canvas Design. An invitation is a designed static piece - visual art with typography, delivered as print-ready PDF/PNG: canvas-design. The pdf skill manipulates existing PDFs; it doesn't do art direction. Format follows the design, not the other way around.
A local charity needs an 18×24 poster to hang in cafés promoting an event: a single-page layout that must read well at a glance, print cleanly and export as a high-resolution PNG or PDF for distribution.
Canvas Design. canvas-design is the right fit because the assignment is a single, view-focused artwork intended for print and static sharing, requiring layout, typography and export-ready files. The closest wrong option is frontend-design - both care about typography and visual hierarchy, but frontend-design targets reusable screen/interface patterns and developer handoff rather than a single print-ready piece; slack-gif-creator produces tiny looping chat assets and cannot meet print/resolution needs; web-artifacts-builder is aimed at building interconnected interactive sites, not one-off print graphics.
Your nonprofit wants a one-page annual impact summary donors will love: big numbers, a moving photo layout, print and Instagram versions.
Canvas Design. This is a designed PIECE - poster-like visual storytelling in print and social formats - not a structured text document. docx tempts ('annual summary' sounds like a report), but big-number layouts and photo-driven composition are art direction: canvas-design.

8 scenarios in the bank answer to Canvas Design. The rest are in the game.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Canvas Design, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Every comparison with Canvas Design

Knowing what Canvas Design does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Canvas Design is part of anthropics/skills. Licence: Apache-2.0. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.