@material/typography
Advanced tools
Typography classes, mixins, and variables for Material Components for the web
@material/typography is a package from the Material Design library that provides a set of typography styles and utilities to help developers implement consistent and visually appealing text styles in their web applications. It follows the Material Design guidelines for typography, ensuring that text elements are readable, accessible, and aesthetically pleasing.
Applying Typography Styles
This feature allows you to apply predefined typography styles to HTML elements. By importing the CSS file and adding the appropriate class to an element, you can style text according to Material Design guidelines.
import '@material/typography/dist/mdc.typography.css';
const myElement = document.createElement('div');
myElement.className = 'mdc-typography--headline1';
myElement.textContent = 'Hello, World!';
document.body.appendChild(myElement);Customizing Typography
This feature allows you to customize typography styles programmatically. By using the `typography` function, you can define custom styles and apply them to elements.
import { typography } from '@material/typography';
const customTypography = typography({
fontFamily: 'Roboto, sans-serif',
fontSize: '16px',
fontWeight: '400',
lineHeight: '1.5'
});
const myElement = document.createElement('div');
myElement.style.cssText = customTypography;
myElement.textContent = 'Custom Typography';
document.body.appendChild(myElement);The 'typography' package is a powerful toolkit for building beautiful websites with consistent typography. It provides a wide range of customization options and integrates well with various CSS-in-JS libraries. Compared to @material/typography, it offers more flexibility and customization options but does not strictly follow Material Design guidelines.
The 'styled-components' package allows you to write actual CSS code to style your components. It supports theming and dynamic styling, making it a versatile choice for managing typography in React applications. While it is not specifically focused on typography, it provides the tools to create and manage text styles effectively. It offers more flexibility than @material/typography but requires more setup for consistent typography.
The 'emotion' package is a library designed for writing CSS styles with JavaScript. It offers powerful and flexible styling capabilities, including support for theming and dynamic styles. Like styled-components, it is not focused solely on typography but provides the tools to manage text styles effectively. It offers more flexibility and customization compared to @material/typography but requires more effort to adhere to Material Design guidelines.
Material Design's text sizes and styles were developed to balance content density and reading comfort under typical usage conditions.
MDC Typography is a foundational module that applies these styles to MDC Web components. The typographic styles in this module are derived from thirteen styles:
npm install @material/typography
We recommend using Roboto from Google Fonts:
<head>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body class="mdc-typography">
<h1 class="mdc-typography--headline1">Big header</h1>
</body>
@import "@material/typography/mdc-typography";
Some components have a set typographic style. For example, a raised MDC Card uses Body 1, Body 2, and Headline styles.
If you want to set the typographic style of an element, which is not a Material Design component, you can apply the following CSS classes.
| CSS Class | Description |
|---|---|
mdc-typography | Sets the font to Roboto |
mdc-typography--headline1 | Sets font properties as Headline 1 |
mdc-typography--headline2 | Sets font properties as Headline 2 |
mdc-typography--headline3 | Sets font properties as Headline 3 |
mdc-typography--headline4 | Sets font properties as Headline 4 |
mdc-typography--headline5 | Sets font properties as Headline 5 |
mdc-typography--headline6 | Sets font properties as Headline 6 |
mdc-typography--subtitle1 | Sets font properties as Subtitle 1 |
mdc-typography--subtitle2 | Sets font properties as Subtitle 2 |
mdc-typography--body1 | Sets font properties as Body 1 |
mdc-typography--body2 | Sets font properties as Body 2 |
mdc-typography--caption | Sets font properties as Caption |
mdc-typography--button | Sets font properties as Button |
mdc-typography--overline | Sets font properties as Overline |
| Mixin | Description |
|---|---|
mdc-typography-base | Sets the font to Roboto |
mdc-typography($style) | Applies one of the typography styles, including setting the font to Roboto |
mdc-typography-overflow-ellipsis | Truncates overflow text to one line with an ellipsis |
mdc-typography-baseline-top($distance) | Sets the baseline height of a text element from top. |
mdc-typography-baseline-bottom($distance) | Sets the distance from text baseline to bottom. This mixin should be combined with mdc-typography-baseline-top when setting baseline distance to following text element. |
A note about
mdc-typography-overflow-ellipsis,mdc-typography-overflow-ellipsisshould only be used if the element isdisplay: blockordisplay: inline-block.
$style ValuesThese styles can be used as the $style argument for the mdc-typography mixin.
headline1headline2headline3headline4headline5headline6subtitle1subtitle2body1body2captionbuttonoverlineAll styles can be overridden using Sass global variables before the component is imported by setting a global
variable named $mdc-typography-styles-{style}. The variable should be assigned a map that contains all the properties
you want to override for a particular style.
Example: Overriding the button font-size and text-transform properties.
$mdc-typography-styles-button: (
font-size: 16px,
text-transform: none,
);
@import "@material/button/mdc-button";
Example: Overriding the global font-family property.
$mdc-typography-font-family: unquote("Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif");
...
@import ...
Example: Overriding the font-family property for headline1 and font-family and font-size for headline2.
$mdc-typography-styles-headline1: (
font-family: unquote("Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif")
);
$mdc-typography-styles-headline2: (
font-family: unquote("Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"),
font-size: 3.25rem
);
...
@import ...
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Typography classes, mixins, and variables for Material Components for the web
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