Typography

Examples and documentation for typography, one of the most important design elements of an application.

Inkline provides you with basic elements, typography, and link styles. It uses a native font stack that selects the best font family for each OS and device. The base font size is 1rem, so visitors can customize their font size as needed when zooming.

When more control is needed, you should check out the textual utility classes. Each font size, style and weight also has a corresponding helper class to style other elements the same.

Configuration

When configuring the Sass files, change the $font-family-primary-base, $font-size, and $line-height-base variables as our typographic base applied to the <body>. Set the global link color via $link-color and apply link underlines only on :hover. The defaults for these global variables are defined in config/_typography.scss.

To learn more about style configuration, please make sure you followed the Customization part of your installation.

Headings

All HTML headings, <h1> through <h6>, have their size calculated based on the specified $font-size-base.

You can use helper classes to achieve heading styles. Classes .h1 through .h6 are available, for when you want to match the font styling of a heading but cannot use the associated HTML element.

Displays

If you need something larger than headings, you can use displays, .d1 through .d6 are available.

Lead

Make a paragraph stand out by adding .lead.

Inline Text Elements

Inkline provides basic styling for all common HTML5 inline text elements.

To avoid any unwanted semantic implications that the tags would bring, .mark and .small classes are also available to apply the same styles as <mark> and <small>.

While not shown above, you can also use <b> and <i> in HTML5. <b> is meant to highlight words or phrases without adding additional semantics, while <i> is mostly for voice, technical terms, etc.

Text Utilities

You can change text alignment, transform, style, weight, and color with text utilities and color utilities.

Text Alignment

You can easily realign text to components with text alignment classes.

Text Wrapping

You can easily realign text to components with text alignment classes.

Responsive Utilities

You can align, wrap or truncate text responsively for any given xs, sm, md, lg, or xl breakpoint by adding the breakpoint suffix:

Abbreviations

The HTML <abbr> element for abbreviations and acronyms is styled to show the expanded version on hover. Abbreviations have a default underline and gain a help cursor to provide additional context on hover and to users of assistive technologies.

Blockquotes

To quote blocks of content from another source within your document, wrap <blockquote class="blockquote"> around any HTML as the quote.

Lists

To enumerate a sequence of elements, you can use lists. Inkline provides you with multiple variations to achieve your target design.

Unordered Lists

When enumerating elements in no specific order, use an unordered list.

Ordered Lists

When enumerating elements in a specific order, use an ordered list.

Unstyled Lists

To remove the default list-style and margin on list items, use the -unstyled modifier. This applies to immediate children list items only, meaning you will need to add the class for any nested lists as well.

Inline Lists

Remove a list’s bullets and apply some light margin using the -inline list modifier.

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