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Typography

Documentation and examples for common text utilities to control alignment, wrapping, weight, and more.

Text alignment

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Left aligned text.
Center aligned text.
Right aligned text.
<Box textAlign="left"><Box textAlign="center"><Box textAlign="right">

Font weight

Light
Regular
Medium
500
Bold
<Box fontWeight="fontWeightLight"><Box fontWeight="fontWeightRegular"><Box fontWeight="fontWeightMedium"><Box fontWeight={500}><Box fontWeight="fontWeightBold">

Font size

Default
h6.fontSize
16px
<Box fontSize="fontSize"><Box fontSize="h6.fontSize"><Box fontSize={16}>

Font Style

Normal font style.
Italic font Style.
Oblique font style.
<Box fontStyle="normal"><Box fontStyle="italic"><Box fontStyle="oblique">

Font family

Default
Monospace
<Box fontFamily="fontFamily"><Box fontFamily="Monospace">

Letter Spacing

Letter Spacing 6px.
Letter Spacing 10px.
<Box letterSpacing={6}><Box letterSpacing={10}>

Line Height

Normal height.
line-height: 2
<Box lineHeight="normal"><Box lineHeight={10}>

API

import { typography } from '@material-ui/system';
Import name Prop CSS property Theme key
fontFamily fontFamily font-family typography
fontSize fontSize font-size typography
fontStyle fontStyle font-style typography
fontWeight fontWeight font-weight typography
letterSpacing letterSpacing letter-spacing none
lineHeight lineHeight line-height none
textAlign textAlign text-align none