typography

A guide to choosing and reviewing how text looks in websites, documents, slides, emails, tables, and PDFs. It covers fonts, sizes, spacing, headings, punctuation, page layout, and support for different writing systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select fonts, set readable line lengths and spacing, review headings and emphasis, format numbers and punctuation, check web typography, and prepare text for print or PDF.
Why use it?
It helps make text easier to read and keeps visual choices consistent with the medium, language, accessibility needs, and intended use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,450 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 $0.00065 $0.01450
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00725
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00145

Measured yesterday against content hash 51decacab8d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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/typography/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Typography

Good typography reinforces the meaning of the text and conserves the reader's attention. Start with body text, but never apply body-text rules to every role. Treat Practical Typography as a benchmark, not a compliance standard. Rule IDs point to provenance.md, which distinguishes source guidance (PT), project choices (DEVIATION), and current external requirements (CURRENT).

Load only what the task needs [ROUTE-001]

  • Character substitutions, punctuation, whitespace, emphasis, or literal text: composition.md
  • Paragraphs, headings, lists, quotations, tables, styles, pagination, columns, or grids: layout.md
  • Font selection, pairing, glyphs, features, or licensing: fonts.md
  • Websites, responsive measure, actual font use, fallbacks, or accessibility: web.md
  • Print, slides, email, resumes, tables of numbers, or PDF delivery: media.md
  • Non-English, non-Latin, bidirectional, or mixed-script text: international.md
  • Authority, scope, freshness, and evaluation coverage for a rule: provenance.md

Do not load every reference by default. A PDF containing Arabic code examples, for example, needs media.md, international.md, and the literal-text section of composition.md; a simple English print paragraph does not need web.md.

Precedence

Apply this order whenever recommendations conflict [CORE-002]:

  1. content correctness and semantics;
  2. accessibility, language conventions, and legal or license constraints;
  3. user intent and delivery medium;
  4. Practical Typography benchmarks;
  5. project presets and optional taste.

Preserve the user's requested aesthetic as far as higher-priority constraints allow. If it departs from a benchmark, label the departure once and give the benchmark alternative without repeatedly arguing the point.

Gated audit

1. Classify context [AUDIT-001]

Identify the medium and delivery format, reading environment, intended audience, language and script, user intent, and the roles present: running prose, display heading, navigation, caption, table, code, data, and so on. State a material assumption if it cannot be verified.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 95 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 51decacab8d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository danium/practicaltypography (27 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,450 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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