apple-hig-typography

apple-hig-typography is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aka-kika/akakika-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for choosing readable text styles and font hierarchy in Apple-platform apps. It covers SwiftUI and Mac interfaces, labels, captions, metadata, code-like text, custom fonts, and accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or implement typography in dashboards, settings, inspectors, popovers, and other iOS, iPadOS, or macOS screens.
Why use it?
It helps people scan and read the interface without unnecessary font variation or decorative styling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review or implement typography in dashboards, settings, inspectors, popovers, and other iOS, iPadOS, or macOS screens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aka-kika/akakika-skills/apple-hig-typography
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aka-kika/akakika-skills --skill apple-hig-typography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aka-kika/akakika-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,026 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00046 $0.02026
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01013
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00203

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1a9dd98ae191, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-hig-typography scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/apple-hig/apple-hig-typography/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple HIG Typography

Apply system text styles, a small hierarchy, and accessible sizing to typography in Apple-platform apps. Reach for it when cleaning up fonts, building readable dashboards or popovers, or reviewing custom-font and accessibility decisions.

Purpose

Use this skill when designing, reviewing, or implementing typography in Apple-platform apps.

Use for SwiftUI text styles, macOS typography, iOS typography, hierarchy, readable sizes, monospaced data, custom font decisions, labels, captions, metadata, and accessibility.

Core rule

Use system text styles first. Customize only when the product needs it.

Typography should make the interface easier to scan, not more decorative.

When to use this skill

Use this skill for:

  • Typography cleanup
  • Font hierarchy
  • Dashboard readability
  • Menu bar popover text
  • Settings text
  • Inspector labels
  • Metadata text
  • Code/terminal-style UI
  • Custom font review
  • Accessibility text review

When not to use this skill

Do not use this skill for:

  • Icon choice; use apple-hig-sf-symbols
  • Spacing/layout only; use apple-hig-layout
  • Sidebar structure; use apple-hig-sidebars
  • Marketing landing pages unless they are inside an Apple app

Apple typography principles

1. Prefer system text styles

Use SwiftUI styles instead of hardcoded sizes where possible.

Text("Title")
    .font(.title2)

Text("Body text")
    .font(.body)

Text("Metadata")
    .font(.caption)
    .foregroundStyle(.secondary)

2. Use a small hierarchy

Most screens need only three levels:

Primary:   title / headline
Secondary: body / callout
Tertiary:  caption / metadata

Avoid using too many sizes on one screen.

3. Use weight carefully

Good UI weights:

Regular
Medium
Semibold
Bold

Avoid very thin weights for functional UI.

4. Use color less than hierarchy

Prefer hierarchy from size, weight, spacing, and grouping before color.

Good:

Text("Last updated 2 min ago")
    .font(.caption)
    .foregroundStyle(.secondary)

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 407 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 1a9dd98ae191

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apple-hig-typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository aka-kika/akakika-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,026 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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