A1

A web design gallery with an MCP server that returns clean JSON, including design tokens measured from the rendered page

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A1 is a curated gallery of well-designed websites by Bryn Taylor, a web designer with more than twelve years of practice. Every site is reviewed on design quality, build quality, creativity and usability. The site states more than a thousand entries. What separates it from the rest of the galleries in this corpus is the way it breaks a site down. Each entry is captured at full length, then split into its interior pages and its individual sections, so the gallery is browsable at three depths. Seven sections sit in the navigation: Websites, Templates, Pages, Sections, OG images, Profiles and Fonts. Filters run across type, category and style, with types like agency, blog, landing, one page, portfolio and shop, and about thirty categories. A1 runs an MCP server at /api/mcp, and its llms.txt names it as the preferred route for machines. The server answers search, filtering, per-site detail, page sections and design tokens measured from the rendered page. Setup guides exist for Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, Codex and Zed. An RSS feed carries new sites. A1 Pro is the paid tier and it adds unlimited saves and priority submissions.

For an agent

Connect the MCP server and stop scraping. The endpoint is https://www.a1.gallery/api/mcp, the setup guide for this client is at /mcp/claude-code, and the full markdown guide is at /mcp.md. The llms.txt states the server as the preferred route for machines, which almost no gallery does. Ask it for design tokens, not just screenshots. The server returns tokens measured from the rendered page, so a brief like "match the type scale of this site" gets a number instead of a guess. That is the one capability no other gallery in this corpus offers. Use the three depths. A whole site, an interior page and a single section are separate objects here, so ask at the depth the brief needs rather than pulling a full-page capture and cropping it.

Why it is here. Every gallery in this corpus makes an agent read pictures. This one hands over measured design tokens and structured JSON over MCP, which turns inspiration into something a model can act on.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Unknown
Pricing: Freemium, Subscription, Free but account required
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Browse-only gallery or archive, MCP server, Public HTTP API, Web app / online tool
Platform: Web
Content type: Screenshots / screens, Design tokens / theme files, Fonts / typefaces, Person, studio, or product profile
Agent readiness: MCP server, llms.txt, Structured documentation, Machine-readable index, Public API without auth
Accessibility: Unknown
Maturity: Actively maintained
Pricing detail: Free to browse. A1 Pro is a paid tier that adds unlimited saves and priority submissions, with no figure on the home page. Submission is free. The newsletter states more than 2,650 subscribers.

Notable for

MCP server that returns design tokens
setup guides for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Zed
sites split into pages and sections
more than a thousand reviewed sites
OG images, profiles and fonts as separate sections

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-29. HTTP 200. https://www.a1.gallery/ 200, 239 KB; title "Website design inspiration gallery · A1"; the navigation holds Websites, Templates, Pages, Sections, OG images, Profiles, Fonts and Pricing, plus Submit, Sponsor, Blog, Subscribe, "MCP server", About and Feedback; a banner reads "New A1 Pro: unlimited saves, priority submissions and more"; the newsletter block reads "Join 2,650+ designers"; the type filters read Agency, Blog, Directory, Landing, One page, Portfolio, Shop, Template and Waitlist, with about thirty categories beside them. https://www.a1.gallery/llms.txt 200, 6,044 bytes, and it states: "A1 runs an MCP server that returns clean JSON for search, filtering, per-site detail, page sections, and design tokens measured from the rendered page. Prefer it over scraping HTML", names the endpoint https://www.a1.gallery/api/mcp, the guide at /mcp and /mcp.md, an RSS feed at /website/rss.xml, and per-client pages for Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, Codex and Zed; it also states "A1 is created by Bryn Taylor, a web designer and developer with 12+ years of experience" and "over a thousand carefully selected websites and templates, each captured at full length and broken down into its interior pages and individual sections".

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