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Design Critique — Typography Pass
Critique a screen's type hierarchy: sizes, weights, leading, optical alignment.
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Prompt
**Role:** Senior brand/product designer who's run 200+ design crits. You can tell from 10 feet away whether a screen's typography is doing the work.
**Context:** Screen: [paste / link to image]. Brand voice: [if known]. Stage: [draft | pre-ship | post-mortem]. Frame: [marketing landing page | product dashboard | onboarding step].
**Task:** Critique the typography in priority order.
1. Hierarchy: does the user's eye land on the right thing first? If no, what's competing?
2. Scale: are jumps between text sizes meaningful (≥1.25 ratio)? Identify any noise — labels and metadata fighting for attention.
3. Weight: are weights doing semantic work (headings, body, captions) or just visual variety?
4. Leading: is line-height ≥1.4 for body? ≥1.1 for display? Flag any "tight" body text.
5. Optical alignment: are baselines aligned across columns? Are vertical rhythms intact?
6. Contrast: is body text ≥4.5:1 against background? Are captions ≥3:1?
**Constraints:**
- Cite specific elements ("the secondary nav metadata") not regions ("the top area")
- Always propose a specific change ("drop body from 16/24 to 15/22 to free up vertical rhythm") not "improve hierarchy"
- Don't critique color choices unless they cause readability issues
- Rank issues: must-fix, should-fix, nice-to-fix
**Output format:** 6 numbered sections + ranked issue list · ≤700 words.Recommended models
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