@highlight-ui/typography
The Typography components which manage the usage of typographic design tokens through props.
Features
- Polymorphic component
- Support text color tokens
- Supports truncation
- Supports components that Pre-combines
fontFamily
, fontSize
, fontWeight
, letterSpacing
, lineHeight
, textTransform
, and textDecoration
- Heading: offers variants in choice of
2xlarge
, xlarge
, large
, medium
, small
and xsmall
which are identical with the Figma assets. - Body: Body component offers variants in choice of
large
, base
, small
, strong-large
, strong-base
and strong-small
which are identical with the Figma assets.
Installation
Using npm:
npm install @highlight-ui/typography
Using yarn:
yarn add @highlight-ui/typography
Using pnpm:
pnpm add @highlight-ui/typography
In your (S)CSS file:
@import url('@highlight-ui/typography');
Once the package is installed, you can import the library:
import { Body, Heading } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
Usage
Typography (Deprecated)🗑️
import React from 'react';
import { Typography } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
export default function Example() {
return <Typography>Text</Typography>;
}
Heading component
import React from 'react';
import { Heading } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
export default function Example() {
return (
<Heading as="h2" variant="xlarge" color="text-default">
some large heading
</Heading>
);
}
Body component
import React from 'react';
import { Body } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
export default function Example() {
return (
<Body variant="large" color="text-default">
some large text
</Body>
);
}
Advanced usage
Changing the rendered HTML tag
By default, the <Body />
component renders a span
element, whereas the <Heading />
component has no default (refer to the props table below). To change the HTML tag that will be used for rendering, the as
prop can be used to specify any other HTML tag.
import React from 'react';
import { Body } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
export default function Example() {
return (
<Body as="p" color="text-default">
Text
</Body>
);
}
Change typographic style through design tokens (Deprecated)🗑️
By default, the Typography component applies the body-base
typography token. To override this default style, the token
prop can be used to change the applied typographic style.
import React from 'react';
import { Typography } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
export default function Example() {
return <Typography token="heading-medium">Text</Typography>;
}
Overriding font properties (Deprecated)🗑️
Individual font properties can be overriden through props such as fontFamily
. Other properties that can be overriden are: fontSize
, fontWeight
, letterSpacing
, lineHeight
, textTransform
, and textDecoration
. For more details on these props, check out the component's props table.
import React from 'react';
import { Typography } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
export default function Example() {
return <Typography fontFamily="mono">Text</Typography>;
}
Customizing through a CSS class name (Deprecated)🗑️
Use the className
prop to customize the component through CSS classes.
import React from 'react';
import { Typography } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
import styles from './customStyles.scss';
export default function Example() {
return <Typography className={styles.wrappedText}>Text</Typography>;
}
Props 📜
Heading
Prop | Type | Required | Default | Description |
---|
color | TypographyColorToken | no | | Specifies a text color |
as | h1 ,h2 , h3 , h4 , h5 , h6 , span | yes | | Specifies an HTML tag for rendering the element |
variant | 2xlarge , xlarge , large , medium , small , xsmall | yes | | Specifies a variant for rendering the element |
truncate | boolean | no | false | Whether to truncate the text |
metadata | ComponentMetadata | no | | An object consisting of testId and actionName properties which will be mapped as HTML data attributes onto the root element |
id | string | no | | Specifies a unique id for the element |
title | string | no | | Specifies extra information about the element |
Body
Prop | Type | Required | Default | Description |
---|
color | TypographyColorToken | no | | Specifies a text color |
as | p ,span | no | span | Specifies an HTML tag for rendering the element |
variant | large , base , small , strong-large , strong-base , strong-small | no | base | Specifies a variant for rendering the element |
truncate | boolean | no | false | Whether to truncate the text |
metadata | ComponentMetadata | no | | An object consisting of testId and actionName properties which will be mapped as HTML data attributes onto the root element |
id | string | no | | Specifies a unique id for the element |
title | string | no | | Specifies extra information about the element |
Typography (Deprecated)🗑️
Note: This component has been deprecated. Please migrate to the Heading and Body components.
Prop | Type | Required | Default | Description |
---|
className | string | no | undefined | Allows providing a custom class name |
component | string | no | 'p' | Specifies an HTML tag for rendering the element |
token | TypographyToken | no | 'body-base' | Specifies typography token |
color | TypographyColorToken | no | undefined | Specifies a text color |
fontFamily | TypographyFontFamilyToken | no | undefined | Specifies font family |
fontSize | TypographyFontSizeToken | no | undefined | Specifies font size |
fontWeight | TypographyFontWeightToken | no | undefined | Specifies font weight |
letterSpacing | TypographyLetterSpacingToken | no | undefined | Specifies letter spacing |
lineHeight | TypographyLineHeightToken | no | undefined | Specifies line height |
textTransform | TypographyTextCaseToken | no | undefined | Specifies text case |
textDecoration | TypographyTextDecorationToken | no | undefined | Specifies text decoration |
Also accepts props from the React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLElement> type.
Custom types 🔠
Type | Values | Description |
---|
TypographyToken | Typography token names | Used for the token prop |
TypographyColorToken | "Text" and "Text On" color token names | Used for the color prop |
TypographyFontFamilyToken | 'default' | 'mono' | Used for the fontFamily prop |
TypographyFontSizeToken | 'small' | 'base' | 'large' | 'xsmall' | 'xlarge' | '2xl' | '3xl' | Used for the fontSize prop |
TypographyFontWeightToken | 'bold' | 'regular' | 'semi-bold' | Used for the fontWeight prop |
TypographyLetterSpacingToken | 'base' | Used for the letterSpacing prop |
TypographyLineHeightToken | 'base' | 'large' | 'xlarge' | Used for the lineHeight prop |
TypographyTextCaseToken | 'none' | 'uppercase' | Used for the textTransform prop |
TypographyTextDecorationToken | 'none' | 'underline' | Used for the textDecoration prop |
Testing
import React from 'react';
import { render } from '@testing-library/react';
import { Body } from '@highlight-ui/typography';
describe('TestExample', () => {
it('test description', () => {
render(<Body>Text</Body>);
});
});
Accessibility Considerations
These components should only be used to handle the styling of the text elements themselves. The spacing, alignment and semantics of the text elements should be managed by the parent. While doing this, it is important to consider the correct semantic page regions are being used such as <aside>
, <section>
, and <nav>
.
Accessible usage of the Typography components relies on the following:
- Heading elements (e.g.
<h1>
, <h2>
) are nested and used in a logical sequence. - Only one
<h1>
(as="h1"
) element per page. - Don't skip heading levels.
Place in design system 💻
The Typography component is being used in all of Highlight UI to display any kind of text element.
Contributing 🖌️
If you're interested in contributing, please visit our contribution page.