Individual skill
type-specimen
Build a browsable type specimen that sets candidate typefaces in the product's own words, so a font is chosen against real copy rather than "Hamburgefonstiv". Loads families from Google Fonts, shows a weight ladder, prose, a data table, list rows, small caps, glyph coverage and variable axes per family, measures WCAG and APCA for the chosen background/text pair, and lets any specimen text be edited in place — one edit, every family. Use when picking a typeface, comparing shortlisted fonts, checking a font's Cyrillic or symbol coverage, or proving a font works for a specific interface before it enters the token set. Triggers on choose a font, pick a typeface, compare fonts, type specimen, font shortlist, does this font have Cyrillic, font pairing, which font for this dashboard, шрифтовой стенд, выбрать шрифт.
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# type-specimen
**Announce at start:** "I'm using the humane:type-specimen skill to pick a typeface against the product's own copy."
Choosing a typeface from a foundry's own specimen tells you the font can be
made to look good. It does not tell you whether *your* numbers align in *your*
table at *your* size. This skill builds a single self-contained HTML page that
sets every shortlisted family in the copy the product actually ships — the same
headline, the same price column, the same empty-state sentence — so the
comparison is between candidates doing the real job.
The page is standalone: one HTML file, no build step, no dependencies. Families
load from the Google Fonts CSS API at view time.
