typography

Styled System Typography

Add typographic styles to child elements using styled-system theme primitives – intended for MDX or markdown content https://styled-system.com/typography

EXPERIMENTAL/WIP

npm i @styled-system/typography

import React from 'react'
import { Global } from '@emotion/core'
import { ThemeProvider } from 'emotion-theming'
import typography from '@styled-system/typography'
import theme from './theme'

export default props =>
  <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
    <>
      <Global styles={typography} />
      {props.children}
    </>
  </ThemeProvider>

// example theme.js
export default {
  space: [
    0, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256
  ],
  fontSizes: [
    12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, 128
  ],
  // the typography object defines global typography styles
  // based on the base theme scales
  typography {
    body: {
      fontFamily: 'system-ui, sans-serif',
      lineHeight: 1.5,
    },
    h1: {
      fontSize: [5, 6],
      lineHeight: 1.25,
      mt: [3, 4],
      mb: 3,
    },
    h2: {
      fontSize: [4, 5],
      lineHeight: 1.25,
    },
    h3: {
      fontSize: 3,
      lineHeight: 1.25,
    },
    pre: {
      p: [2, 3],
    },
  }
}

Getting Started

Styled System Typography is intended for use with Emotion or Styled Components, be sure your build setup includes support for one of these libraries. To configure the theme, add a ThemeProvider to your application's root.

import React from 'react'
import { ThemeProvider } from 'emotion-theming'
import theme from './theme'

export default props =>
  <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
    {props.children}
  </ThemeProvider>

Theming

The typography object in the theme defines the global styles applied by this module. Each key in the object corresponds to an HTML element selector, where many common typographic elements can also use styled-system typographic props to define responsive, theme-based styles.

Props

Styled System props can pick up values from a theme context when using a ThemeProvider component. This means that the value passed to the prop can be a key from the correlating theme object. For example, setting fontSize: 5 picks up the theme.fontSizes[5] value, which defaults to 32px. All styled-system props also accept arrays as values to create responsive props. Read more about how Styles System works in the docs.

The core typographic elements accept styles using the following styled-system typography props in addition to all CSS properties:

• fontFamily
• fontSize
• fontWeight
• lineHeight
• space props:
  • m: margin
  • mt: margin-top
  • mr: margin-right
  • mb: margin-bottom
  • ml: margin-left
  • mx: (x-axis) margin-left and margin-right
  • my: (y-axis) margin-top and margin-bottom
  • p: padding
  • pt: padding-top
  • pr: padding-right
  • pb: padding-bottom
  • pl: padding-left
  • px: (x-axis) padding-left and padding-right
  • py: (y-axis) padding-top and padding-bottom
• color
• bg (or backgroundColor)

The following elements use thes typographic style props: body, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, a, p, ol, ul, dl, dd, li, blockquote, hr, img, pre, code, samp, kbd, table, tr, th, td, b, strong, em, i, abbr

Built-In Themes

This library includes several themes that can be used out-of-the-box or as the basis for a custom typography theme.

// example theme
import { themes } from '@styled-system/typography'

export default {
  typography: themes.future,
}

Scoped Styles

Styled System Typography can be "scoped" to a wrapping <div> or other element instead of adding global styles. This approach will increase CSS specificity due to the class selector required, which will make overriding styles within the component more difficult. Use with caution.

import styled from '@emotion/styled'
import typography from '@styled-system/typography'

const Typography = styled.div(typography)

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Related

The typography-system module attempts to solve a similar problem with a different implementation. It takes a Typography.js theme and converts it into a theme object that works with Styled System. The component in this package starts with primitive values from a Styled System theme, and creates typographic styles based on those primitives.

Prior Art

This component is inspired by many other similar projects, especially Typography.js

MIT License