Design Taste vs Cosmos

Search by intent, not by feed.

Design Taste is 12,427+ hand-tagged design references — branding, editorial, posters, packaging, web — picked and rated by a human. Search by industry, mood, style, or palette from the web, Figma, or Claude Desktop.

Closest in spirit, different in shape

Cosmos is one of the few places left on the web where the visual quality of the feed is deliberately high. The cluster model — members save and group images under a name — makes for genuinely good browsing if you trust the people you follow. It rewards time spent inside the app.

Design Taste is the same impulse pointed at search instead of feed. The library is finite, every reference is tagged for industry, mood, style, and palette, and you reach for it when you already know what you’re looking for — “sage-and-cream wellness brand,” “brutalist editorial,” “minimal SaaS dashboard.” Less to scroll, more to find.

At a glance

 Design TasteCosmos
How references get inHand-picked, then rated and pruned weekly.Members save and post images; clusters group them.
TaggingIndustry, mood, style, and palette — set by a human.Cluster names and member-supplied descriptions.
Search shapeFaceted: combine industry, mood, style, and palette filters.Browse clusters, follow members, scroll the feed.
AI-generated imagesExcluded.Allowed; surfaces depending on the cluster.
Where it runsWeb, Figma plugin, and Claude Desktop via MCP.Web app and browser extension.

Which one you want

If you want to spend time inside a feed of curated clusters and discover things you weren’t looking for, Cosmos is built for that. If you want a hand-tagged catalog you search by intent and leave, that’s Design Taste.