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Typography Scale
A typography scale is a predefined ladder of font sizes and weights — display, h1, h2, body, caption — that gives text consistent hierarchy.
A predefined ladder of font sizes and weights — display, h1, h2, body, caption — rather than arbitrary values. The scale creates rhythm and hierarchy in text-heavy pages; naming the steps in an AI prompt (“use a 1.25 modular scale”) yields far better typography.