diff --git a/src/platformBridges/NodeMacOSBridge.ts b/src/platformBridges/NodeMacOSBridge.ts
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+++ b/src/platformBridges/NodeMacOSBridge.ts
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+import { PlatformBridge } from '../types';
+import weakRequire from '../utils/weakRequire';
+
+const { createStringMeasurer, findFontName } = weakRequire(module, 'node-sketch-bridge');
+const fetch = weakRequire(module, 'node-fetch');
+const { readFile: nodeReadFile } = weakRequire(module, 'fs');
+
+const NodeMacOSBridge: PlatformBridge = {
+  createStringMeasurer,
+  findFontName,
+  fetch,
+  async readFile(path: string): Promise<Buffer> {
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      nodeReadFile(path, (err, data) => (err ? reject(err) : resolve(data)));
+    });
+  },
+};
+
+export default NodeMacOSBridge;
diff --git a/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/createStringMeasurer.ts b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/createStringMeasurer.ts
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+++ b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/createStringMeasurer.ts
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+import { Size, TextNode, TextStyle } from '../../types';
+import {
+  TEXT_DECORATION_UNDERLINE,
+  TEXT_DECORATION_LINETHROUGH,
+  TEXT_ALIGN,
+  TEXT_TRANSFORM,
+} from '../../jsonUtils/textLayers';
+import { findFont } from './findFontName';
+import { makeColorFromCSS } from '../../jsonUtils/models';
+
+// TODO(lmr): do something more sensible here
+const FLOAT_MAX = 999999;
+
+function makeParagraphStyle(textStyle) {
+  const pStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle.alloc().init();
+  if (textStyle.lineHeight !== undefined) {
+    pStyle.minimumLineHeight = textStyle.lineHeight;
+    pStyle.lineHeightMultiple = 1.0;
+    pStyle.maximumLineHeight = textStyle.lineHeight;
+  }
+
+  if (textStyle.textAlign) {
+    pStyle.alignment = TEXT_ALIGN[textStyle.textAlign];
+  }
+
+  // TODO: check against only positive spacing values?
+  if (textStyle.paragraphSpacing !== undefined) {
+    pStyle.paragraphSpacing = textStyle.paragraphSpacing;
+  }
+
+  return pStyle;
+}
+
+// This shouldn't need to call into Sketch, but it does currently, which is bad for perf :(
+function createStringAttributes(textStyles: TextStyle): Object {
+  const font = findFont(textStyles);
+  const { textDecoration } = textStyles;
+
+  const underline = textDecoration && TEXT_DECORATION_UNDERLINE[textDecoration];
+  const strikethrough = textDecoration && TEXT_DECORATION_LINETHROUGH[textDecoration];
+
+  const attribs: any = {
+    MSAttributedStringFontAttribute: font.fontDescriptor(),
+    NSFont: font,
+    NSParagraphStyle: makeParagraphStyle(textStyles),
+    NSUnderline: underline || 0,
+    NSStrikethrough: strikethrough || 0,
+  };
+
+  const color = makeColorFromCSS(textStyles.color || 'black');
+  attribs.MSAttributedStringColorAttribute = color;
+
+  if (textStyles.letterSpacing !== undefined) {
+    attribs.NSKern = textStyles.letterSpacing;
+  }
+
+  if (textStyles.textTransform !== undefined) {
+    attribs.MSAttributedStringTextTransformAttribute = TEXT_TRANSFORM[textStyles.textTransform] * 1;
+  }
+
+  return attribs;
+}
+
+type NSAttributedString = any;
+
+function createAttributedString(textNode: TextNode): NSAttributedString {
+  const { content, textStyles } = textNode;
+
+  const attribs = createStringAttributes(textStyles);
+
+  return NSAttributedString.attributedStringWithString_attributes_(content, attribs);
+}
+
+export default function createStringMeasurer(textNodes: TextNode[], width: number): Size {
+  const fullStr = NSMutableAttributedString.alloc().init();
+  textNodes.forEach(textNode => {
+    const newString = createAttributedString(textNode);
+    fullStr.appendAttributedString(newString);
+  });
+  const {
+    height: measureHeight,
+    width: measureWidth,
+  } = fullStr.boundingRectWithSize_options_context(
+    CGSizeMake(width, FLOAT_MAX),
+    NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin,
+    null,
+  ).size;
+  return { width: measureWidth, height: measureHeight };
+}
diff --git a/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/findFontName.ts b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/findFontName.ts
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+++ b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/findFontName.ts
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+/* eslint-disable no-bitwise */
+
+import hashStyle from '../../utils/hashStyle';
+import { TextStyle } from '../../types';
+import { FONT_STYLES } from '../../jsonUtils/textLayers';
+
+// this borrows heavily from react-native's RCTFont class
+// thanks y'all
+// https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/React/Views/RCTFont.mm
+
+const FONT_WEIGHTS = {
+  ultralight: -0.8,
+  '100': -0.8,
+  thin: -0.6,
+  '200': -0.6,
+  light: -0.4,
+  '300': -0.4,
+  normal: 0,
+  regular: 0,
+  '400': 0,
+  semibold: 0.23,
+  demibold: 0.23,
+  '500': 0.23,
+  '600': 0.3,
+  bold: 0.4,
+  '700': 0.4,
+  extrabold: 0.56,
+  ultrabold: 0.56,
+  heavy: 0.56,
+  '800': 0.56,
+  black: 0.62,
+  '900': 0.62,
+};
+
+type NSFont = any;
+
+const isItalicFont = (font: NSFont): boolean => {
+  const traits = font.fontDescriptor().objectForKey(NSFontTraitsAttribute);
+  const symbolicTraits = traits[NSFontSymbolicTrait].unsignedIntValue();
+
+  return (symbolicTraits & NSFontItalicTrait) !== 0;
+};
+
+const isCondensedFont = (font: NSFont): boolean => {
+  const traits = font.fontDescriptor().objectForKey(NSFontTraitsAttribute);
+  const symbolicTraits = traits[NSFontSymbolicTrait].unsignedIntValue();
+
+  return (symbolicTraits & NSFontCondensedTrait) !== 0;
+};
+
+const weightOfFont = (font: NSFont): number => {
+  const traits = font.fontDescriptor().objectForKey(NSFontTraitsAttribute);
+
+  const weight = traits[NSFontWeightTrait].doubleValue();
+  if (weight === 0.0) {
+    const weights = Object.keys(FONT_WEIGHTS);
+    const fontName = String(font.fontName()).toLowerCase();
+    const matchingWeight = weights.find(w => fontName.endsWith(w));
+    if (matchingWeight) {
+      return FONT_WEIGHTS[matchingWeight];
+    }
+  }
+
+  return weight;
+};
+
+const fontNamesForFamilyName = (familyName: string): Array<string> => {
+  const manager = NSFontManager.sharedFontManager();
+  const members = NSArray.arrayWithArray(manager.availableMembersOfFontFamily(familyName));
+
+  const results = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < members.length; i += 1) {
+    results.push(members[i][0]);
+  }
+
+  return results;
+};
+
+const useCache = true;
+const _cache: Map<string, NSFont> = new Map();
+
+const getCached = (key: string): NSFont => {
+  if (!useCache) return undefined;
+  return _cache.get(key);
+};
+
+export const findFont = (style: TextStyle): NSFont => {
+  const cacheKey = hashStyle(style);
+
+  let font = getCached(cacheKey);
+  if (font) {
+    return font;
+  }
+  const defaultFontFamily = NSFont.systemFontOfSize(14).familyName();
+  const defaultFontWeight = NSFontWeightRegular;
+  const defaultFontSize = 14;
+
+  const fontSize = style.fontSize ? style.fontSize : defaultFontSize;
+  let fontWeight = style.fontWeight
+    ? FONT_WEIGHTS[style.fontWeight.toLowerCase()]
+    : defaultFontWeight;
+
+  let familyName = defaultFontFamily;
+  let isItalic = false;
+  let isCondensed = false;
+
+  if (style.fontFamily) {
+    familyName = style.fontFamily;
+  }
+
+  if (style.fontStyle) {
+    isItalic = FONT_STYLES[style.fontStyle] || false;
+  }
+
+  let didFindFont = false;
+
+  // Handle system font as special case. This ensures that we preserve
+  // the specific metrics of the standard system font as closely as possible.
+  if (familyName === defaultFontFamily || familyName === 'System') {
+    font = NSFont.systemFontOfSize_weight(fontSize, fontWeight);
+
+    if (font) {
+      didFindFont = true;
+
+      if (isItalic || isCondensed) {
+        let fontDescriptor = font.fontDescriptor();
+        let symbolicTraits = fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits();
+        if (isItalic) {
+          symbolicTraits |= NSFontItalicTrait;
+        }
+
+        if (isCondensed) {
+          symbolicTraits |= NSFontCondensedTrait;
+        }
+
+        fontDescriptor = fontDescriptor.fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits(symbolicTraits);
+        font = NSFont.fontWithDescriptor_size(fontDescriptor, fontSize);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  const fontNames = fontNamesForFamilyName(familyName);
+
+  // Gracefully handle being given a font name rather than font family, for
+  // example: "Helvetica Light Oblique" rather than just "Helvetica".
+  if (!didFindFont && fontNames.length === 0) {
+    font = NSFont.fontWithName_size(familyName, fontSize);
+    if (font) {
+      // It's actually a font name, not a font family name,
+      // but we'll do what was meant, not what was said.
+      familyName = font.familyName();
+      fontWeight = style.fontWeight ? fontWeight : weightOfFont(font);
+      isItalic = style.fontStyle ? isItalic : isItalicFont(font);
+      isCondensed = isCondensedFont(font);
+    } else {
+      font = NSFont.systemFontOfSize_weight(fontSize, fontWeight);
+    }
+
+    didFindFont = true;
+  }
+
+  if (!didFindFont) {
+    // Get the closest font that matches the given weight for the fontFamily
+    let closestWeight = Infinity;
+    for (let i = 0; i < fontNames.length; i += 1) {
+      const match = NSFont.fontWithName_size(fontNames[i], fontSize);
+
+      if (isItalic === isItalicFont(match) && isCondensed === isCondensedFont(match)) {
+        const testWeight = weightOfFont(match);
+
+        if (Math.abs(testWeight - fontWeight) < Math.abs(closestWeight - fontWeight)) {
+          font = match;
+
+          closestWeight = testWeight;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // If we still don't have a match at least return the first font in the fontFamily
+  // This is to support built-in font Zapfino and other custom single font families like Impact
+  if (!font) {
+    if (fontNames.length > 0) {
+      font = NSFont.fontWithName_size(fontNames[0], fontSize);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // TODO(gold): support opentype features: small-caps & number types
+
+  if (font) {
+    _cache.set(cacheKey, font);
+  }
+
+  return font;
+};
+
+export default function findFontName(style: TextStyle): string {
+  const font = findFont(style);
+  return font.fontDescriptor().postscriptName();
+}
diff --git a/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/index.ts b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/index.ts
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+++ b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/index.ts
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+import { PlatformBridge } from '../../types';
+import createStringMeasurer from './createStringMeasurer';
+import findFontName from './findFontName';
+import readFile from './readFile';
+
+const SketchBridge: PlatformBridge = {
+  createStringMeasurer,
+  findFontName,
+  fetch,
+  readFile,
+};
+
+export default SketchBridge;
diff --git a/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/readFile.ts b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/readFile.ts
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+++ b/src/platformBridges/SketchBridge/readFile.ts
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+import { readFileSync } from '@skpm/fs';
+
+export default async function readFile(path: string): Promise<Buffer> {
+  return Promise.resolve(readFileSync(path));
+}