ClaudSkills / Science & Research / science-misc

Applying Practical Typography

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: science-misc

type:review

Applies and reviews professional typography rules based on Butterick's Practical Typography. Covers characters and symbols (curly quotes, dashes, ellipses, nonbreaking spaces), text formatting (bold/italic, caps, kerning, letterspacing, color), body text settings (point size, line spacing, line length, indents, hyphenation), page layout (margins, headings, tables, lists, columns), font selection (professional vs system fonts, mixing, alternate figures), and document-specific guidance (emails, presentations, résumés, research papers, business cards, letterhead, websites). Use when generating or reviewing text for documents, web pages, presentations, or any formatted output, when the user asks about typography rules, when checking for common typography mistakes (straight quotes, double spaces, bad fonts, improper dashes), or when setting up document styles and layouts.

What this skill does

Applying Practical Typography is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/applying-practical-typography/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when generating or reviewing text for documents, web pages, presentations, or any formatted output, when the user asks about typography rules, when checking for common typography mistakes (straight quotes, double spaces, bad fonts, improper dashes), or when setting up document styles and layouts.

Who uses this skill

The Applying Practical Typography skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/applying-practical-typography
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/applying-practical-typography/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/applying-practical-typography/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/applying-practical-typography/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/applying-practical-typography/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\applying-practical-typography\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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