--- title: Pencil: 01 Vibe Design with Pencil and Claude Code description: Pencil.dev is a new MCP-powered visual design canvas that uses Claude Code to generate UI designs from text prompts. The walkthrough covers installing the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pencil-01-vibe-design-with-pencil-and-claude-code-znlvofrea twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pencil: 01 Vibe Design with Pencil and Claude Code | daily.dev og:description: Pencil.dev is a new MCP-powered visual design canvas that uses Claude Code to generate UI designs from text prompts. The walkthrough covers installing the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pencil-01-vibe-design-with-pencil-and-claude-code-znlvofrea og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZnLVOFrEA.png og:image:alt: Pencil: 01 Vibe Design with Pencil and Claude Code og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pencil: 01 Vibe Design with Pencil and Claude Code **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 17 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pencil.dev is a new MCP-powered visual design canvas that uses Claude Code to generate UI designs from text prompts. The walkthrough covers installing the desktop app and VS Code extension, running built-in exercises, generating a full marketplace website from a single prompt, creating a responsive mobile version, and converting the design into a self-contained HTML/CSS file. The tool creates reusable components, uses design variables, and produces clean semantic HTML output, positioning itself as an AI-driven alternative to static design tools like Figma. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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