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Typography Audit

The type scale, or the lack of one — sizes, weights, line lengths and heights, font loading, and every place text is asked to do a job at the wrong size.

TYPOGRAPHY.md4 phases8 lenses~3.0k chars

Free & open · no signup · read-only — it ends by asking · nothing leaves your machine

What it does

You are working inside this repo. Mission: inventory every way this product sets type and judge it as a system — scale, rhythm, readability, loading — then find where text works hardest and reads worst.

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

What it looks for

8 lenses it looks through

Phase 2 sweeps the codebase through every one of these, citing file and line for each finding.

1

Scale coherence

do the sizes form a deliberate scale with a ratio and steps, or an accretion of 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17px decisions

2

Measure

line lengths on real content: roughly 45–75 characters, or viewport-wide paragraphs on desktop

3

Rhythm

line-height fit for size and role (tight headings, roomy body); vertical spacing derived from type or improvised per component

4

Weight discipline

how many weights carry the hierarchy; bolding as the only emphasis tool; faux bold or italic where the weight was never loaded

5

Hierarchy through type

can the structure be read from type alone; heading levels that render identically

6

Responsive type

fixed pixels at every viewport, or fluid and stepped; readability at 320px and at 4k

7

Loading and fallbacks

flash behavior, fallback stacks matched to metrics, weights shipped but never used

8

The neglected text

form labels, captions, tables, code, empty states: styled deliberately or inheriting whatever was nearby

The deliverable

What lands in your repo

One structured report at the repo root — or in reports/, if you keep one — the same shape every time, ready for a teammate — or the optional Studio — to act on.

TYPOGRAPHY.md
1
The inventory
current values, clustered, with usage counts and sources
2
The proposed scale
sizes, weights, line-heights, and the mapping from today
3
Findings
ranked, with the file and selector behind each
4
Font economics
what is loaded versus used, and the bytes to reclaim
One file. Evidence-backed. It ends by asking before touching anything. · see a real TYPOGRAPHY.md ↗
How it works

What it makes the agent do

Every Goal Prompt follows the same four steps, so results are consistent and repeatable — no matter which one you run.

1
Phase 1

Inventory the type

Extract every font-size, weight, line-height, letter-spacing, and family in use.

2
Phase 2

Audit through 8 lenses

Scale coherence — do the sizes form a deliberate scale with a ratio and steps, or an accretion of 13, 14, 15, 16, and…

3
Phase 3

Curate

Propose the minimal scale this product needs.

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Phase 4

Report

Create TYPOGRAPHY.md at repo root.

Get started

Three ways to run this Goal Prompt

01 · COPY

Paste it in

Copy it and paste it into your agent inside the repo you want checked.

02 · INSTALL

As a slash command

Install the goal plugin once — two commands — then just type /goal:typography-audit.

1/plugin marketplace add GhostlyGawd/goal-prompts
2/plugin install goal@goal-prompts

Or install only this Goal Prompt as /goal-typography-audit:

curl -fsSL https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/install | BRIEF=55 sh
03 · AGENT

From an agent (MCP)

Let an agent fetch it mid-conversation, or pull the raw Goal Prompt by URL.

https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/raw/55.md
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The exact prompt

Nothing hidden — this is the whole Goal Prompt, verbatim. Read it in a minute, edit it, or copy it as-is.

Read the full brief (2,952 characters)
# Goal: Typography Audit

You are working inside this repo. Mission: inventory every way this product sets type and judge it as a system — scale, rhythm, readability, loading — then find where text works hardest and reads worst.

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

## Phase 1 — Inventory the type
- Extract every font-size, weight, line-height, letter-spacing, and family in use: grep the CSS, tokens, and framework config; check computed styles on a running dev server if one exists.
- Count distinct values. A healthy system has one scale; record how many this one has grown.
- Map the fonts: families loaded, weights shipped versus weights used, subsets, and the loading strategy (swap, block, fallback stacks).

## Phase 2 — Audit through 8 lenses
1. **Scale coherence** — do the sizes form a deliberate scale with a ratio and steps, or an accretion of 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17px decisions
2. **Measure** — line lengths on real content: roughly 45–75 characters, or viewport-wide paragraphs on desktop
3. **Rhythm** — line-height fit for size and role (tight headings, roomy body); vertical spacing derived from type or improvised per component
4. **Weight discipline** — how many weights carry the hierarchy; bolding as the only emphasis tool; faux bold or italic where the weight was never loaded
5. **Hierarchy through type** — can the structure be read from type alone; heading levels that render identically
6. **Responsive type** — fixed pixels at every viewport, or fluid and stepped; readability at 320px and at 4k
7. **Loading and fallbacks** — flash behavior, fallback stacks matched to metrics, weights shipped but never used
8. **The neglected text** — form labels, captions, tables, code, empty states: styled deliberately or inheriting whatever was nearby

## Phase 3 — Curate
- Propose the minimal scale this product needs; map every current value onto it and count the deletions.
- Rank findings by pages of reading improved per change.

## Phase 4 — Report
Create `TYPOGRAPHY.md` at repo root:
1. **The inventory** — current values, clustered, with usage counts and sources
2. **The proposed scale** — sizes, weights, line-heights, and the mapping from today
3. **Findings** — ranked, with the file and selector behind each
4. **Font economics** — what is loaded versus used, and the bytes to reclaim

Start the report with today's date. If `TYPOGRAPHY.md` already exists from a previous run, read it first and lead with what changed since.

## Rules
- Measured values only — cite the file and selector for every number
- The best deliverable is a smaller system, not more rules
- No UI typography in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
- If a `reports/` directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
- Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
- Report only — end by asking which fixes to make

House rules for this Goal Prompt

  • Measured values only — cite the file and selector for every number
  • The best deliverable is a smaller system, not more rules
  • No UI typography in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
  • If a reports/ directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
  • Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
  • Report only — end by asking which fixes to make
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