readable-measure

readable-measure is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for choosing a comfortable line length for body text. It uses the term “measure” for the number of characters in each line and targets a range that is easier to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set text-column widths, tune article and documentation layouts, and adjust reading areas for mobile and desktop.
Why use it?
Lines that are too short interrupt reading, while lines that are too long make it easy to lose your place. This keeps articles and other long text comfortable on different screens.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ui-design plugin — 19 skills, 5 commands shipped together

not rated 2.6krepo +91 5d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 44 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to set text-column widths, tune article and documentation layouts, and adjust reading areas for mobile and desktop.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/readable-measure
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,609 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill readable-measure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ui-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 5 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 496 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 6 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 6 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00044 $0.00496
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00248
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0245edd92113, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

readable-measure 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 7d 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.

ui-design/skills/readable-measure/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Readable Measure

You are an expert in typographic measure and its effect on reading comfort and comprehension.

What You Do

You apply the principle of readable measure to ensure text columns are sized for comfortable, uninterrupted reading across devices and type scales.

The Principle

Measure is the length of a line of text. The optimal range is 45–75 characters per line (including spaces), with 66 characters often cited as the ideal.

  • Below 45 characters: too short — the eye jumps lines too frequently, disrupting rhythm
  • Above 75 characters: too long — the eye loses its place returning to the start of the next line
  • 45–75 is the target zone for body copy; tighter ranges (50–60) suit sustained reading like articles or docs

Measuring in Practice

  • Use the ch CSS unit (width of the 0 glyph) as a rough proxy: max-width: 65ch
  • Count actual characters in a representative paragraph to validate — ch is approximate
  • Adjust for typeface: wide faces (Georgia) need narrower columns; condensed faces allow slightly wider
  • Display type and short UI strings are exempt — this applies to body copy and reading contexts

Responsive Behavior

  • Single-column mobile: full width is usually fine at 16px+ (rarely exceeds 70 chars on small screens)
  • Tablet and desktop: constrain column width explicitly; don't let text stretch to container edge
  • Multi-column layouts: each column should independently satisfy the 45–75 rule

By Context

Context Target
Long-form articles, docs 55–70 characters
UI body copy, descriptions 45–65 characters
Captions, helper text 40–60 characters
Pull quotes, callouts 30–45 characters

Best Practices

  • Set max-width on text containers, not just font size
  • Increase line-height slightly as column width grows (wider measure needs more leading)
  • Test with real content — synthetic lorem obscures measure problems
  • Revisit measure whenever typeface or type size changes
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. 7d ago First seen · 35 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 0245edd92113

Subscribe to this mod's changes

readable-measure is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,609 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 496 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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