type-as-signal

type-as-signal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/taste-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (356 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A typography-focused method for judging a designer's taste and design maturity from choices such as typefaces, sizes, spacing, weights, and line lengths.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate typography in a product, review a portfolio, or assess whether type choices suit the product and remain readable.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether a design has a coherent visual voice before color, layout, or images distract from the text itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to evaluate typography in a product, review a portfolio, or assess whether type choices suit the product and remain readable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/taste-skills/type-as-signal
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/taste-skills --skill type-as-signal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 356 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 $0.00045 $0.00356
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00036

Measured 11d ago against content hash ef193c1e5719, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

type-as-signal 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 11d 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/typography/type-as-signal/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Type as Signal

You can read a designer's taste in their type before you notice anything else.

How to use

  • /type-as-signal Apply type-as-signal analysis to evaluate typography quality in this conversation.

Constraints

What Typography Reveals

  • MUST evaluate type as the primary taste signal before analyzing color, layout, or imagery
  • A well-set page with no images demonstrates more taste than a poorly-set page covered in beautiful photography
  • MUST check: does the type feel like it belongs to this product, or could it be swapped out without anyone noticing?

Signals of Strong Type Taste

  • Consistent scale with a clear mathematical ratio
  • Weight used purposefully (not randomly bold)
  • Line height that varies appropriately between headlines, body, and UI
  • Letter spacing adjusted for all-caps and display sizes
  • Text measure (line length) controlled for readability
  • The typeface choice reflects the product's voice, not the designer's portfolio aesthetic

Signals of Weak Type Taste

  • Too many sizes with no governing system
  • Random bold usage across the interface
  • Same line height everywhere regardless of text size
  • Decorative typefaces used for body text
  • Ignoring the relationship between type size and container width

Anti-Patterns

  • Evaluating typography only by the typeface name, ignoring how it's used
  • Treating all sans-serifs as interchangeable
  • Ignoring type in favor of more visually dramatic elements (color, imagery)
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. 11d ago First seen · 40 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ef193c1e5719

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type-as-signal is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/taste-skills (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 356 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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