---
name: reference-typography-palace-cli
description: The "typography palace" — masters of type (Bringhurst, Tschichold, Hochuli,
  Lupton, Sousa…) live in a dedicated MemPalace at ~/.mempalace/palace-chamber-typography.
  Query it with CLI tools, NOT the MCP tools (which point at palace-memory).
metadata:
  node_type: memory
  type: reference
  originSessionId: 52219e07-6cc1-48c2-97f6-0513f6f6f20a
permalink: claude-memory/reference-typography-palace-cli
---

When ARC typography work needs the masters' prescription (setting verse, block quotes, hyphenation, measure, etc.), the source-of-truth is a **dedicated MemPalace palace we built for exactly this**: a small curated collection (~20-21 sources — Bringhurst *Elements*, Tschichold *Form of the Book*, Lupton *Thinking with Type*, Sousa *Ortografía y ortotipografía del español*, and more).

**Location:** `~/.mempalace/palace-chamber-typography` (wing `chamber_typography`, room `general`).

**Query method — CLI, not MCP.** The MCP `mempalace_*` tools point at `palace-memory` (our session/working memory), NOT this palace. To search the typographers, use the CLI with `--palace`:

```bash
mempalace --palace ~/.mempalace/palace-chamber-typography search "your keywords here"
mempalace --palace ~/.mempalace/palace-chamber-typography status
```

The binary is `/opt/homebrew/bin/mempalace`. CLI subcommands: init, mine, sweep, sync, search, compress, wake-up, split, hook, instructions, repair, repair-status, mcp, migrate, status. (Search hits show source file + cosine/bm25 — go to the named `*.md` source for the full passage.)

This is NOT the chamber-library (`~/_Dev/chamber-library`, the larger reading corpus) — it is a separate, small, purpose-built typography palace. Don't conflate them. Steward's standing instruction (2026-06-02): for typography queries of this kind, use this palace via CLI — don't ask where it lives again.

Related: [[mempalace-is-unaffiliated-stopgap]]. Answers the 2026-06-01 wrap's open literal question (where does the typography palace live).