Learner worksheet

Typography Audit Board

A typography audit board for mapping type roles, reading order, readability, accessibility risks, AI critique, and one type-system decision.

Output standard

A screen-level typography audit with reusable type roles and one evidence-backed typography decision.

Use when

Use in the typography lesson before approving fonts, hierarchy, or AI-generated UI.

Related sessions

Session 05Typography: Type Roles, Hierarchy, Readability, and ToneTypography audit board with type roles, hierarchy, readability, accessibility, AI critique, and one typography decision

Worksheet fields

Use this when typography needs to be taught as craft, not font selection. The learner should identify what each text element does before changing how it looks.

Fields to complete

Screen or UI sample
Title, heading, body, label, helper, action, caption, and data roles
First, second, and third reading order
Scale and weight issues
Line height, line length, and spacing issues
Tone notes
Accessibility and resizing risks
AI critique to accept/adapt/reject
Proposed type roles
Typography decision sentence

Quality check

The audit should make text easier to read, scan, trust, and reuse.

Check before accepting

Every important text element has a role.
Hierarchy supports the intended reading order.
Readable size, spacing, and contrast are checked.
Type choices are reusable, not one-off decoration.
The final decision includes product reason.

Starter prompt

Use this prompt after the learner has inventoried visible text.

Starter prompt

I am learning typography for product interfaces.

Screen or rough UI:
[describe the screen or paste a screenshot description]

Please review the typography in simple but professional language.
Return:
1. Type roles: title, heading, body, label, helper text, action text, caption, and data text.
2. Hierarchy: what should be read first, second, and third?
3. Scale and weight: which text is too loud, too quiet, too similar, or too small?
4. Readability: line length, line height, paragraph spacing, and scanning issues.
5. Voice: what the typography makes the product feel like before the words are read.
6. Accessibility risk: resizing, contrast, small text, dense text, and label clarity.
7. System recommendation: a small type scale with 4 to 6 reusable roles.
8. AI risk: where a generated UI may look polished but use weak type hierarchy.
9. One improvement: the first typography change I should make and why.

Rules:
- Do not choose fonts for decoration first.
- Start with type roles and reading order.
- Avoid vague advice like "make it modern."
- Mark assumptions clearly.
- Finish with one typography decision sentence.