typography
UI typography on Apple platforms — text styles and Dynamic Type, the San Francisco family (Pro/Rounded/Compact/Mono/New York + width axis), optical sizes, tracking vs kerning, leading adjustments, and custom-font scaling. Use when choosing fonts, building type hierarchy, fixing truncation/legibility, or making custom fonts respect Dynamic Type.
npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill typography --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Typography Type is most of your UI. The system does the hard parts — optical sizes, tracking tables, Dynamic Type — *if* you use its APIs. This skill covers when to trust the system, how to build hierarchy deliberately, and what custom fonts owe you back. ## When This Skill Activates - Choosing fonts or building a type hierarchy for a screen or app - Text truncating, cramping, or breaking under larger Dynamic Type sizes - Adopting a custom/brand font (and keeping accessibility) - Display typesetting: hero numbers, stats, editorial headlines ## Rule 1: text styles first Predefined styles (Large Title → Caption 2) are weight + size + leading combos with Dynamic Type support built in — and different styles scale *differently* (body grows more than footnote), which manual font sizes can't replicate. - Build hierarchy from 2–3 text styles + emphasized variants (bold trait — the actual weight varies per style: some go medium→semibold, others bold→heavy) before reaching for new fonts. - Semantic colors + text styles together give dark mode, contrast, and Dynamic Type for free. - macOS supports text styles (without Dynamic Type); design Mac type at 100% — no iOS-style scaling assumptions
- When This Skill Activates
- Rule 1: text styles first
- Rule 2: let optical sizes and tracking work
- The Dynamic Type ladder (WWDC24 10074)
- The San Francisco family — pick by job
- Custom fonts: what you owe back
- Output Format
- References
What does the typography skill do?
UI typography on Apple platforms — text styles and Dynamic Type, the San Francisco family (Pro/Rounded/Compact/Mono/New York + width axis), optical sizes, tracking vs kerning, leading adjustments, and custom-font scaling. Use when choosing fonts, building type hierarchy, fixing truncation/legibility, or making custom fonts respect Dynamic Type.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill typography --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills, a repository with 589 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.