better-typography

better-typography is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from memi-design/design-skills. It costs 159 tokens per session (3,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-typography guide covering font choice, spacing, text wrapping, accessibility, variable fonts, and text styling. It also explains how to apply these decisions within the project's existing styling system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose and pair fonts, set type scales and line heights, configure font features, style headings and controls, and review truncation, placeholders, underlines, and carets.
Why use it?
It helps avoid uncomfortable spacing, weak contrast, poor heading structure, awkward wrapping, and inconsistent styling approaches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose and pair fonts, set type scales and line heights, configure font features, style headings and controls, and review truncation, placeholders, underlines, and carets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/memi-design/design-skills/better-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 memi-design/design-skills --skill better-typography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/memi-design/design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,205 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 $0.00159 $0.03205
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01603
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00320

Measured 11d ago against content hash a17408922649, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

better-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 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/better-typography/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Great typography

Good typography is mostly restraint. A sensible scale, comfortable spacing and enough contrast beat any clever effect. A label, a table cell, a marketing headline and an article paragraph should not share one set of rules. Apply these principles when building or reviewing anything with text in it.

Match the project's styling system. Before suggesting or writing any fix, check how the codebase styles things and express every change in that system: Tailwind utilities in a Tailwind project, plain declarations in CSS, CSS Modules, styled-components or StyleX. The cheat sheet maps each declaration to its Tailwind equivalent. Never introduce a second styling approach just to apply a typography fix.

Quick Reference

Category When to use Reference
Choosing fonts Font categories, pairing, formats, typeface anatomy choosing-fonts.md
Variable fonts & OpenType Axes, weights, tabular numbers, stylistic sets variable-fonts-and-opentype.md
Spacing & sizing Type scale, heading hierarchy, line-height, letter-spacing, text trimming spacing-and-sizing.md
Wrapping & punctuation Measure, wrapping, truncation, smart punctuation, RTL wrapping-and-punctuation.md
Details & accessibility Underlines, selection, forms, decorative text, contrast details-and-accessibility.md
CSS cheat sheet Quick lookup of every property covered, with Tailwind equivalents css-cheat-sheet.md

Core Principles

1. Serve the Right Format

Use .woff2 (Brotli compression, broadly supported) on the web. .woff is a fallback only for very old browsers; .ttf and .otf are raw desktop formats with no web compression. How the files are loaded is the project's own concern, this skill does not prescribe it.

2. Properties Over Raw Tags

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 11d ago First seen · 167 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A a17408922649

Subscribe to this mod's changes

better-typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository memi-design/design-skills (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 3,205 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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