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Say precisely what you mean.

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The words designers use when they know what they’re looking at.

Say precisely what you mean. 00 Vocabulary The words designers use when they know what they’re looking at. npx skills add index-how/vocabulary Supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more. 01 Typography How text is set, spaced, and read. Kerning The space between two specific characters, adjusted manually. Different from tracking, which affects all characters equally. Tracking Letter-spacing applied uniformly across a word or block of text. Uppercase labels almost always need more of it. Leading The vertical space between lines of text. Too tight and text suffocates. Too loose and it stops rea

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