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@material/typography
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@material/typography
Typography classes, mixins, and variables for Material Components for the web
What is @material/typography?
@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.
What are @material/typography's main functionalities?
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);Other packages similar to @material/typography
typography
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.
styled-components
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.
emotion
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.
mdc-typography
MDC typography is a CSS-only component that implements the Material Design typography guidelines, and makes them available to developers as CSS classes.
Installation
Note: Installation via the npm registry will be available after alpha.
CSS class usage
<head>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body class="mdc-typography">
<h1 class="mdc-typography--display4">Big header</h1>
</body>
Material Design typography uses the Roboto font, which we're loading from Google Fonts in the example above.
Note: You can load more font weights and styles if you wish, but
mdc-typographyonly uses 300, 400 and 500.
The mdc-typography class defines basic properties for text, such as the typeface and antialiasing settings.
Formatting your text
Style
Simply add the corresponding style class to format your text:
<body class="mdc-typography">
<h1 class="mdc-typography--display4">Big header</h1>
<p class="mdc-typography--body1">
A paragraph with <span class="mdc-typography--body2">emphasis</span>.
</p>
</body>
The full list of styles:
mdc-typography--display4mdc-typography--display3mdc-typography--display2mdc-typography--display1mdc-typography--headlinemdc-typography--titlemdc-typography--subheadingmdc-typography--body2mdc-typography--body1mdc-typography--caption
Margins and positioning
In order to minimize unexpected behavior, the style classes only specify font properties, such as size, weight and line height.
This means that while text will be correctly styled, it may not be correctly positioned. If you include the
mdc-typography--adjust-margin class, though, positioning will be adjusted according to the style:
<body class="mdc-typography">
<h1 class="mdc-typography--display4 mdc-typography--adjust-margin">
Big header
</h1>
<p class="mdc-typography--body1 mdc-typography--adjust-margin">
A paragraph with
<span class="mdc-typography--body2 mdc-typography--adjust-margin">
emphasis
</span>.
</p>
</body>
Note: as the name implies,
mdc-typography--adjust-marginwill change the margin properties of the element it's applied to, in order to align text correctly. Because of this, it should only be used in a text context; using this property on UI elements such as buttons may cause them to be positioned incorrectly.
Sass mixin usage
mdc-typography-base
@include mdc-typography-base;
mdc-typography-base defines the basic properties for Material Design typography, namely the font and aliasing
settings, without defining any particular font size or style.
mdc-typography
@include mdc-typography(display4);
Applies one of the typography styles. Note that this includes the font family and aliasing definitions; you don't need
to include mdc-typography-base as well.
The full list of styles:
display4display3display2display1headlinetitlesubheadingbody2body1caption
mdc-typography-adjust-margin
@include mdc-typography(display4);
@include mdc-typography-adjust-margin(display4);
In order to minimize unexpected behavior, the style mixins only specify font properties, such as size, weight and line height.
This means that while text will be correctly styled, it may not be correctly positioned. If you include the
mdc-typography-adjust-margin mixin as well, though, positioning will be adjusted according to the style.
Note: as the name implies,
mdc-typography-adjust-marginwill change the margin properties of the element it's applied to, in order to align text correctly. Because of this, it should only be used in a text context; using this property on UI elements such as buttons may cause them to be positioned incorrectly.
The list of styles is the same as for the mdc-typography mixin:
display4display3display2display1headlinetitlesubheadingbody2body1caption
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Typography classes, mixins, and variables for Material Components for the web
We found that @material/typography demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 15 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 23 Jan 2017
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