typography

typography is a skill for Claude Code from ariadoss/superskills. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for choosing and applying fonts and other typography in interfaces with visible text. It covers readable sizing and spacing, and favors free fonts that are less generic than common default choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing UI text, selecting fonts for product or marketing pages, setting type scales, and checking typography against the intended visual voice.
Why use it?
It helps prevent interfaces from looking visually interchangeable or poorly typeset. It also ensures font choices can be used commercially without licensing costs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superskills plugin — 197 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariadoss/superskills/typography
Any agent
npx skills add ariadoss/superskills --skill typography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariadoss/superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for typography

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,079 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00095 $0.02079
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01040
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00416
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00208

Measured 6d ago against content hash 95c32d79e260, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

design-skills/typography/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UI Typography

Professional typographic rules for screen-based interfaces. Based on Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography.

Mode

Enforcement — when generating ANY UI with visible text, apply every rule automatically and silently.

Audit — when reviewing existing code, flag violations.


Font Selection

Font choice is the single biggest signal of whether an interface looks designed or auto-generated. Two filters must both pass: the face must be non-generic (escape the AI monoculture) and it must be open-licensed (free for commercial use). These are independent — many open fonts are also the most overused.

Register first

  • Product UI (dashboards, admin panels, tools): system stacks and familiar sans are legitimate. One well-tuned family carries the whole UI. Fixed rem scale, 1.125–1.2 ratio. Don't over-brand a utility.
  • Brand / marketing / content: the design is the product. Generic type here reads as mediocre. Run the selection procedure below.

Selection procedure (brand register — never skip)

  1. Voice words. Write three concrete, physical-object brand-voice words — "warm and mechanical and opinionated", not "modern" or "elegant".
  2. Reject your reflex. List the three fonts you'd reach for first. If any appear on the ban list below, drop them — they're training-data defaults and create monoculture.
  3. Search by physical object. Browse a real open-license catalog with the voice words in mind. Find the face for the brand as a thing: a 1970s terminal manual, a fabric label, a concert poster, a museum caption. Reject the first thing that "looks designy".
  4. Cross-check. "Elegant" is not necessarily serif. "Technical" is not necessarily sans. "Warm" is not Fraunces. If the final pick matches your original reflex, start over.

Ban list — overused faces (do not use as primary)

Two waves of monoculture. Reflex-reject all of these:

  • Older: Inter, Roboto, Open Sans, Lato, Montserrat, Arial, Helvetica
  • Newer (the AI-skill / Vercel / GitHub default wave): Fraunces, Geist, Mona Sans, Plus Jakarta Sans, Space Grotesk / Space Mono, Instrument Sans / Instrument Serif, DM Sans / DM Serif, Outfit, Recoleta, Newsreader, Lora, Crimson, Playfair Display, Cormorant, Syne, IBM Plex (any)

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 6d ago First seen · 199 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 95c32d79e260

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariadoss/superskills (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,079 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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