typography

typography is a skill for Claude Code from fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-AI-life. It costs 119 tokens per session (6,135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-typography guide for choosing, combining, and implementing typefaces, including sizing, spacing, and font loading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting fonts, building a type hierarchy, setting responsive sizes and line heights, or deciding between system and web fonts.
Why use it?
It helps avoid text that feels unclear, inconsistent, or mismatched with a site's purpose. It also provides a way to assess typography and identify improvements.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ui-excellence plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when selecting fonts, building a type hierarchy, setting responsive sizes and line heights, or deciding between system and web fonts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-ai-life/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 fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-AI-life --skill typography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-AI-life

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ui-excellence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-ai-life/typography/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-ai-life/typography)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-ai-life/typography"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-ai-life/typography/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for typography

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-ai-life/typography"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-ai-life/typography.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,135 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 $0.00119 $0.06135
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.02454
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.01227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00613

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bacea7492469, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

plugins/ui-excellence/skills/systems/typography/SKILL.md · 403 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 403 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Typography

A practical guide to choosing, pairing, and implementing typefaces for the web. Typography serves communication — the best typography is invisible, immersing readers in content rather than calling attention to itself.

Core Principle

Typography is the voice of your content. The typeface you choose sets tone before a single word is read. A legal site shouldn't feel playful; a children's app shouldn't feel corporate.

The "clear goblet" principle: Typography should be like a crystal-clear wine glass — the focus is on the wine (content), not the glass (type). Readers should absorb meaning, not notice letterforms.

Readers don't read, they scan. Eyes jump 7-9 characters at a time (saccades), pausing briefly (fixations). Good typography supports this natural pattern.

Scoring

Goal: 10/10. When reviewing or creating typography implementations, rate them 0-10 based on adherence to the principles below. A 10/10 means full alignment with all guidelines; lower scores indicate gaps to address. Always provide the current score and specific improvements needed to reach 10/10.

Two Contexts for Type

All typography falls into two categories:

Context Purpose Priorities
Type for a moment Headlines, buttons, navigation, logos Personality, impact, distinctiveness
Type to live with Body text, articles, documentation Readability, comfort, endurance

Workhorse typefaces excel at "type to live with" — they're versatile across sizes, weights, and contexts without drawing attention to themselves. Examples: Georgia, Source Sans, Freight Text, FF Meta.

Typography Framework

1. How We Read

Core concept: Understanding reading mechanics is the foundation for every typography decision. Eyes don't scan smoothly — they jump in bursts, and good typography supports this natural pattern.

Why it works: When typography aligns with how the brain processes text — through word shape recognition, consistent rhythm, and clear letterform distinction — readers absorb content faster with less fatigue. Fighting these mechanics creates friction that drives readers away.

Read the full file on GitHub · 403 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 1mo ago First seen · 403 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A bacea7492469

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository fernando-bertholdo/4-successful-AI-life (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 6,135 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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