type-specimen

type-specimen is a skill for Claude Code from glebis/humane-agentic-design. It costs 185 tokens per session (2,098 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A standalone web page for comparing typefaces using the product's real text, such as headings, prices, tables and empty states. It also shows font weights, glyph coverage and variable settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shortlist Google Fonts families, compare them in realistic interface content, and inspect readability-related details such as weight and character coverage.
Why use it?
A font can look good in a foundry's sample but work poorly with your actual copy, numbers or languages. This comparison reveals those problems before you choose a typeface.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the humane plugin — 17 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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/glebis/humane-agentic-design/type-specimen
Any agent
npx skills add glebis/humane-agentic-design --skill type-specimen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glebis/humane-agentic-design

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install humane, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 agent.

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 type-specimen

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/type-specimen.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/type-specimen)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/type-specimen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/type-specimen.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,098 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 5.1 $0.00185 $0.02098
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.01049
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00210

Measured 6d ago against content hash cd1283a20d49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

type-specimen 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (conftest.py, scripts/tspec/__init__.py, scripts/tspec/build.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

humane/skills/type-specimen/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

type-specimen

Announce at start: "I'm using the humane:type-specimen skill to pick a typeface against the product's own copy."

Choosing a typeface from a foundry's own specimen tells you the font can be made to look good. It does not tell you whether your numbers align in your table at your size. This skill builds a single self-contained HTML page that sets every shortlisted family in the copy the product actually ships — the same headline, the same price column, the same empty-state sentence — so the comparison is between candidates doing the real job.

The page is standalone: one HTML file, no build step, no dependencies. Families load from the Google Fonts CSS API at view time.

Where output goes

The built specimen page and its specimen.json go in .design/specimen-<name> — the setup setting, defaulting to corpus_root. Pass -o to put them elsewhere; never let them default to the current working directory, which writes into whatever tree the agent happens to be standing in. setup/references/paths.md owns the full table.

Quick reference

You want to Run
Start a specimen scripts/specimen init -o spec.json --locale ru --context "..."
Feed it the brief scripts/specimen texts spec.json --from-file README.md
See what still needs writing scripts/specimen texts spec.json
Write a slot scripts/specimen texts spec.json --set headline="..."
Validate without building scripts/specimen check spec.json
Build and open it scripts/specimen build spec.json

Config field reference: references/config.md.

The flow

1. Take the brief

Ask what the type is for, in one or two sentences: the product, the surface (dashboard, receipt, marketing page), the reading distance, and the scripts it must cover. Store it — --context for a sentence, --from-file for a README, a spec, or a page of real product copy.

The brief is stored in the config and never shipped to the built page. It is for whoever writes the copy, and a specimen often gets shared before the product is announced.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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 · 170 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A cd1283a20d49

Subscribe to this mod's changes

type-specimen is a skill published in the GitHub repository glebis/humane-agentic-design (27 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 2,098 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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