Design reference
for AI agents
Connect your AI coding tool to a curated library of real websites. Search by style, font, technology, and colour — without leaving your editor.
Free, no account needed
Install A1 MCP
Run this once in your terminal. The --scope user flag makes A1 available across all your projects. Verify it's connected: run /mcp inside a Claude Code session.
claude mcp add --transport http a1 --scope user https://www.a1.gallery/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer public"What you can ask
Find minimal SaaS landing pages built with Framer
What fonts do dark portfolio sites typically use?
Show me websites similar to Linear — clean, developer-focused
Which free display fonts appear on well-designed sites?
Browse e-commerce sites with bold, expressive colour palettes
Find fintech sites that use clean, minimal layouts with strong typography
7 tools
search_websites- Full-text search across names and descriptions.
browse_websites- Filter by type, style, category, technology, font, or colour.
get_website- Full detail on one site: fonts, colours, styles, tech stack, screenshot.
get_similar_websites- Sites that share the same category, type, and style.
browse_fonts- Filter by classification (serif, sans-serif, display…) or free/paid.
find_font_pairings- Real sites using two specific fonts together.
get_design_filters- All available filter options with counts. Good starting point.
Common questions
Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI coding agents call external tools mid-task. Connect A1 once and your agent can look up real websites, fonts, and colour palettes as structured data — without you pasting screenshots or describing what you want.
Free. No account needed. The server is rate-limited to 60 requests per minute and 500 per day per IP address.
Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code (1.99+ with GitHub Copilot), ChatGPT (Plus/Pro/Team), Zed (0.168+), OpenAI Codex, and Claude Desktop. Any tool that implements the Model Context Protocol spec will also work.
Published website metadata: name, URL, fonts, colours, styles, technologies, and categories. No private or unpublished data is accessible.
Run /mcp inside a Claude Code session to list all connected servers and their available tools.
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