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better-typography

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Web typography from choosing fonts to spacing, wrapping and accessibility. Use when picking or pairing typefaces, configuring variable fonts or OpenType features, setting up a type scale, checking heading hierarchy, styling text in components, truncating text, styling underlines, selection, placeholders or carets, or reviewing frontend code for typography. Triggers on typography, fonts, font formats, woff2, variable fonts, font-weight, opentype, font-feature-settings, letter-spacing, line-height, type scale, heading hierarchy, heading levels, tabular numbers, text-wrap, truncation, line clamp, underlines, text-decoration, text selection, iOS input zoom, scaled input text, font smoothing, text contrast, measure, line length, text-box, smart punctuation, drop cap.

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# 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.

When reviewing, read the page instead of scanning the code: squint to check the hierarchy holds, read one full paragraph for comfort, and resize the viewport to catch bad wrapping, widows and truncation at real content lengths.

The words themselves (button labels, error messages, empty states) are covered by the `better-writing` skill; semantic heading structure by `better-accessibility`; spatial RTL layout and logical CSS properties by `better-layout`; rendered-pair contrast measurement and color remediation by `better-colors`. This skill owns how text renders, wraps, and behaves in mixed-direction content.

Write every fix in the project's own idiom: the styling system already in use, never a second one alongside it. The [cheat sheet](css-cheat-sheet.md) maps each declaration to its Tailwind equivalent.

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