canon-typography

canon-typography is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,185 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing and using fonts, text sizes, spacing, and line lengths in web interfaces. It covers how text should behave across desktop and mobile screens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing or reviewing headings, body text, buttons, captions, line height, font loading, and other typography decisions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent hard-to-read text and inconsistent type choices that make an interface feel generic or difficult to use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Designing or reviewing headings, body text, buttons, captions, line height, font loading, and other typography decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/canon/canon-typography
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Dragoon0x/canon --skill canon-typography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/canon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,185 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.
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 $0.00082 $0.02185
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01092
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00218

Measured 6d ago against content hash ecbfb29dddae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canon-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.

source/skills/canon-typography/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CANON · Typography

Typography is the single highest-leverage design decision in any interface. Most AI-generated UIs converge on the same wrong defaults. This skill prevents that.

Quantified Rules

Font Size

Context Range Default Source
Body text (desktop) 16–18px 16px Material 3, Apple HIG
Body text (mobile) 16–17px 16px iOS HIG (16px prevents zoom-on-focus)
Long-form reading 18–20px 18px Refactoring UI, Practical Typography
Caption / metadata 12–14px 13px Material 3
Legal / footnote 11–12px 12px Never below 11px
H1 (marketing) 48–96px 64px Modular scale 1.25–1.333
H1 (app) 28–36px 32px Modular scale 1.2
Button label 14–16px 15px 44px touch target dictates min

Hard floor: never use font-size below 12px on any visible text. Never below 14px on any tappable target on mobile.

Line Height

Context Ratio Source
Display / large headings (>40px) 1.0–1.1 Tighter as size grows
Subheadings (24–40px) 1.15–1.25 Material 3
Body text 1.5–1.7 WCAG 1.4.12 requires ≥1.5
Dense UI (tables, lists) 1.3–1.4 Acceptable for short strings
Long-form prose 1.6–1.75 Practical Typography

Rule: line-height decreases as font-size increases. Inverse relationship is non-negotiable.

Line Length (measure)

  • Optimal: 50–75 characters per line
  • Maximum: 90 characters
  • Minimum: 45 characters
  • Source: Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style

Use max-width: 65ch on prose containers. Use max-width: 75ch for marketing copy. Anything wider hurts comprehension.

Letter Spacing (tracking)

Context Value
Body text 0 (default)
Large headings (>40px) -0.01em to -0.03em
Small caps / all-caps labels +0.05em to +0.1em
Buttons / nav (uppercase) +0.025em to +0.05em

Rule: tracking decreases as size increases. Tighten large type, loosen all-caps and small text.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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 · 190 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A ecbfb29dddae

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canon-typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,185 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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