typography-and-layout

typography-and-layout is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jangles-byte/atelier. It costs 129 tokens per session (585 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing fonts, text sizes, spacing, grids, and visual hierarchy for screens or other layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports font pairing, modular size scales, spacing systems, grid composition, and deciding when to break a grid.
Why use it?
It helps prevent interfaces from looking uneven, cramped, or accidentally assembled from default styles.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the atelier plugin — 7 skills 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/jangles-byte/atelier/typography-and-layout
Any agent
npx skills add jangles-byte/atelier --skill typography-and-layout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jangles-byte/atelier

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install atelier, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 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-and-layout

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 585 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 $0.00129 $0.00585
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00059

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1b74c2564157, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

typography-and-layout 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 4d 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-and-layout/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Typography & Layout

Typography is most of design: get type and spacing right and a screen looks designed before it has any color or decoration. The failure mode is timidity — small scale jumps, default tracking, uniform spacing — not bad taste.

Workflow

  1. Read the design philosophy (design-direction); the type voice comes from there.
  2. Choose faces and pairings with references/type-pairing.md — contrast on exactly one axis, two families maximum.
  3. Build a modular scale and spacing system with references/scale-and-space.md — sizes, line heights, measure, and the spacing ladder, as tokens.
  4. Compose with references/composition.md — grid, hierarchy channels, negative space, and the sanctioned ways to break the grid.
  5. Render at real size and run the critique skill. Type that looks right in code is routinely wrong on screen.

Which reference to load

Situation Load
Picking fonts, pairing display + text faces, font features references/type-pairing.md
Setting sizes, line-height, measure, spacing ladder references/scale-and-space.md
Arranging a page/screen/slide, hierarchy problems, grids references/composition.md

Non-negotiables

  • Two font families maximum (a third only for code/data, and it counts if decorative).
  • A real scale ratio, and at least one jump ≥ 3× body size somewhere in display contexts (heroes, slides, posters); interfaces cap lower but still need contrast.
  • Body measure 45–75 characters; line-height inversely proportional to size.
  • Spacing from a ladder (4/8-based), applied asymmetrically: space groups, not elements — more space between sections than inside them, always.
  • Tabular numerals (font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums or a mono) for any column of numbers that can change.
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1b74c2564157

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typography-and-layout is a skill published in the GitHub repository jangles-byte/atelier (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 585 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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