typography
Skill0 starsChanged 48 days agoMITView on GitHub
Fonts and typography — a curated open-source font library (Inter, IBM Plex, Source Sans 3, Roboto, Open Sans, JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Noto incl. Arabic/CJK/emoji, Liberation, DejaVu), project fonts, FontForge and fontconfig, all in a reproducible container. Use when the user wants to choose or pair fonts, see what fonts are available, add fonts to a project, compare fonts in a specimen, convert fonts to web formats (WOFF2 + @font-face), or edit/create a font.
16 other projects use a version of this, 1 of them edited.
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Most recently taken up by
- fracazo/design-systemtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- soilmass/motion-design-agenttheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- heydavidf/typographytheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- Above-the-Fold-Studio/designmd-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- ArnavPuri/designskillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- mocchalera/mockup-to-code-skilltheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
Other versions16 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 1
- codeonym-org/codeonym-arch-design★ 033% same
Wrote their own version · 15
- glebis/claude-skills★ 410same name
- danium/practicaltypography★ 29same name
- ArnavPuri/designskills★ 17same name
- soilmass/motion-design-agent★ 7same name
- fracazo/design-system★ 4same name
- AntJanus/skillbox★ 2same name
- dkadts/landing-kit-building★ 2same name
- qyndex/claude-init★ 2same name
- HugoLopes45/design-skills★ 1same name
- VectorLabAU/skills★ 1same name
5 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository11 other files it gives its agents.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- 3d-modelingSkill
- design-doctorSkill
- design-sandboxSkill
- graphic-designSkill
- illustrationSkill
- photo-editingSkill
- print-layoutSkill
- screen-recordingSkill
- ui-designSkill
- video-editingSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 11 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 20
Project fonts: put .ttf/.otf files in ./fonts (or point DS_FONTS at a folder) and every tool in the container sees them — Inkscape exports, …
- Distinctive: line 51
Check the license before shipping a font (SIL OFL / Apache = free to embed and self-host).
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 11 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Typography (fonts · FontForge · fontconfig)
Scripts run inside the design-skills container automatically (bash <skill-dir>/scripts/<name>.sh …, see design-sandbox).
Fonts available to every tool
| Role | Families |
| UI / product sans | Inter, IBM Plex Sans, Roboto, Open Sans, Source Sans 3 |
| Serif | IBM Plex Serif, Noto Serif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Monospace / code | JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, IBM Plex Mono |
| Global coverage | Noto Sans/Serif (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Thai…), Noto Color Emoji; Noto CJK in the full image |
| Metric-compatible | Liberation (Arial/Times/Courier), Carlito (Calibri) |
Project fonts: put .ttf/.otf files in ./fonts (or point DS_FONTS at a folder) and every tool in the
container sees them — Inkscape exports, ImageMagick text, specimens, Scribus. Google Fonts: download the family
from fonts.google.com (or github.com/google/fonts) into ./fonts.
Tools
| Tool | Use it for | CLI (in the container) |
| fontconfig | List and match fonts | fc-list, fc-match "Inter:bold" |
| FontForge | Edit glyphs, create fonts, convert formats | fontforge -lang=py -script … |
| woff2 | Compress to WOFF2 | woff2_compress |
| Desktop font managers | Browse/compare visually | GNOME Fonts / Font Manager (Linux), Font Book (macOS), Settings → Fonts (Windows) |
Scripts
| Script | What it does |
check.sh | Font tools, the key families, counts, and project fonts in ./fonts |
font-inventory.sh [filter] | Families with style counts and location |
font-specimen.sh "Family A" "Family B" … [-t "sample text"] [-o out.png] | Side-by-side specimen PNG to compare/pair fonts; flags families that aren't installed; any script (Arabic, CJK…) via -t |
webfont.sh <font.ttf|otf…> [outdir] | WOFF2 + WOFF + an @font-face CSS file with the real family/weight/style |
Guides
references/pairing-and-hierarchy.md— proven pairings from the bundled set, type scale, readability rules.references/installing-fonts.md— project fonts, installing on Linux/macOS/Windows, licensing.
Rules of thumb
- Two families max per project (one sans + one serif or mono). Use weights for hierarchy.
- Body text 16 px+ on screen, line-height 1.5, 60–75 characters per line.
- Check the license before shipping a font (SIL OFL / Apache = free to embed and self-host).
- For the web, self-host WOFF2 (
webfont.sh) or usenext/font— don't hotlink random font CDNs. - Designing for Arabic, Hebrew, CJK or Indic scripts? Check the specimen with real text (
-t) — Latin-only fonts silently fall back.
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