flexible-typography

flexible-typography is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (852 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A typography guide for text that remains readable when users change font size, spacing, or font preferences, including for dyslexia-related needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when defining font sizes, line heights, letter spacing, word spacing, and text-scaling behaviour.
Why use it?
It helps prevent text from becoming too small, cramped, or broken when users adjust reading settings.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the adaptive-interfaces plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when defining font sizes, line heights, letter spacing, word spacing, and text-scaling behaviour.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/flexible-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 Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill flexible-typography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adaptive-interfaces, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 852 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 $0.00087 $0.00852
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00085

Measured 13d ago against content hash 60ed6308b943, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flexible-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 13d 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.

adaptive-interfaces/skills/flexible-typography/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flexible Typography

Design type systems that flex with the user — scaling smoothly, spacing generously, and never breaking when someone needs text larger, more spaced, or in a different font.

Core Requirements

Relative Units Always

  • Use rem for font sizes (relative to root, user-controllable)
  • Use em for spacing that should scale with text
  • Never use px for font size — it overrides user preferences
  • Base font size: let the browser default (usually 16px) be your starting point, don't override it

Minimum Sizes

  • Body text: 1rem minimum (never smaller)
  • Small text / captions: 0.875rem minimum
  • Labels and UI text: 0.875rem minimum
  • If text is essential, it should be readable without zooming

Line Height

  • Body text: 1.5 minimum (WCAG requirement)
  • Headings: 1.2–1.3 (tighter is acceptable for large text)
  • Line height should scale with font size — use unitless values (1.5 not 24px)

Spacing

  • Paragraph spacing: at least 1.5× the font size
  • Letter spacing: don't compress below browser default
  • Word spacing: don't compress below browser default
  • Users must be able to override spacing without breaking layout (WCAG 2.1 Level AA, Success Criterion 1.4.12)

Design Patterns

Scalable Type Scale

  • Define a type scale using relative ratios (1.25, 1.333, 1.5)
  • Each step should be perceptibly different
  • 4–6 sizes is enough for most interfaces
  • Example: 0.875rem, 1rem, 1.25rem, 1.5rem, 2rem, 2.5rem

User-Override Safe

  • Don't set fixed heights on text containers
  • Use min-height instead of height for elements containing text
  • Let containers grow when text grows
  • Test with: 200% text size, 200% zoom, extra letter and word spacing
  • If layout breaks at any of these, the CSS needs fixing

Font Selection

  • Prioritise readability over aesthetics
  • Sans-serif fonts are generally easier for screen reading (but this is preference, not rule — test with your audience)
  • Ensure the chosen font has:
    • Clear distinction between similar characters (Il1, 0Oo, rn/m)
    • Consistent x-height
    • Adequate character spacing at default settings
  • Provide a font-family stack that degrades gracefully
  • Never prevent users from overriding with their preferred font

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 13d ago First seen · 84 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 60ed6308b943

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flexible-typography is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 852 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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