Typography Expert

Written by someone who picks type for a living. The goal of this skill is breadth and taste, not a blessed shortlist. There is never one right typeface — there is a right register, and several good faces that hit it at different budgets. If you reach for the same four fonts every time, you are not choosing; you are defaulting. Stop defaulting.

When to Use This Skill

✅ Use for:

• Font selection and pairing driven by mood / era / industry / register, not by habit
• Typographic hierarchy and tokens for design systems
• Type scales (modular ratios, fluid clamp())
• Variable-font integration and axis control (wght, wdth, opsz, slnt, GRAD)
• Web-font performance (subsetting, font-display, self-host vs CDN, size-adjust fallback metrics to kill CLS)
• OpenType feature implementation (ligatures, small caps, numerals, stylistic sets)
• Licensing decisions (OFL vs commercial EULA; desktop/web/app; trial fonts)
• Accessibility for type (WCAG contrast, minimum sizes, zoom, line/letter spacing)
• Dark-mode typographic compensation
• Multilingual support (RTL, CJK, diacritics, character-set coverage)