apple-typography-workflow

A guide for choosing and implementing typography in Apple apps, including system fonts, custom fonts, and text that adapts to accessibility settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with SwiftUI, UIKit, or AppKit to configure font families, weights, widths, Dynamic Type, monospaced numbers, and custom font integration.
Why use it?
It helps text remain readable and correctly scaled across Apple platforms instead of relying on fixed sizes or incorrectly bundled fonts.

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/gaelic-ghost/socket/apple-typography-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill apple-typography-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,737 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.
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Fable 5 $0.00145 $0.01737
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00869
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00174

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2eee12b62619, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-typography-workflow 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 2d 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/apple-dev-skills/skills/apple-typography-workflow/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Typography Workflow

Purpose

Use this skill to choose, implement, repair, and validate Apple platform typography that respects system font behavior, Dynamic Type, accessibility, platform conventions, and custom-font bundle boundaries.

It is not the generic visual-design workflow, not the SF Symbols workflow, and not the Xcode project execution workflow.

When To Use

  • Use this skill when the task mentions Apple typography, San Francisco, SF Pro, SF Compact, SF Mono, SF Pro Rounded, New York, system fonts, Dynamic Type, text styles, font designs, font weights, font widths, monospaced digits, or custom font integration.
  • Use this skill when code uses SwiftUI Font, fontDesign, fontWeight, fontWidth, UIKit UIFont, UIFontMetrics, UIFontDescriptor.SystemDesign, AppKit NSFont, preferred fonts, UIAppFonts, or ATSApplicationFontsPath.
  • Use this skill when text does not scale correctly, hard-coded point sizes are hurting accessibility, custom fonts are not loading, or a project is bundling fonts unnecessarily.
  • Recommend apple-ui-accessibility-workflow when the work is broader accessibility review beyond typography scaling and readability.
  • Recommend sf-symbols-workflow when the task is icon or symbol selection rather than text.
  • Recommend xcode-build-run-workflow when the next step is adding font files, Info.plist keys, bundle resources, target membership, preview, build, or simulator validation.

Single-Path Workflow

  1. Classify the typography job:
    • system text style choice
    • San Francisco or system design choice
    • monospaced or monospaced-digit choice
    • New York or serif design choice
    • Dynamic Type repair
    • custom font integration
    • font licensing or redistribution boundary
    • Xcode resource or Info.plist validation
  2. Apply the Apple docs gate:
    • read the relevant Apple documentation first
    • state the documented behavior being relied on before recommending implementation
    • if Apple docs and current code disagree, stop and surface the conflict
    • if no relevant Apple docs can be found, say that explicitly before proceeding
  3. Choose system typography first:
    • use SwiftUI Font text styles and system designs for SwiftUI
    • use UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle:) and UIFontMetrics for UIKit
    • use NSFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle:options:) or system font APIs for AppKit
    • use custom font files only when the app's brand or content requirements justify them
  4. Preserve accessibility scaling:
    • prefer Dynamic Type text styles over hard-coded point sizes
    • scale custom fonts through the framework-supported metrics path
    • ensure controls and layout can adapt to larger text
    • avoid using font weight, width, size, or color as the only signal for state
  5. Check platform and asset boundaries:
    • do not bundle Apple system font files for normal app UI
    • avoid machine-local font paths in public docs, project files, or scripts
    • use documented Info.plist keys and Xcode resource membership for custom font files
    • state licensing and redistribution concerns once when the task asks to extract, modify, bundle, or publish Apple font assets
  6. Return one recommendation path with:
    • chosen text style or font design
    • Dynamic Type behavior
    • custom font or system font decision
    • documented Apple behavior relied on
    • validation or handoff step

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 131 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 2eee12b62619

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-typography-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 1,737 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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