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.
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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI
Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.
Skill stats
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About this skill
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.
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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.
About this listing
Category
Science & research
Reported license
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI