Typography

Typography helps establish hierarchy and communicate text content clearly. Typography components abstracts over semantic and visuals. Some Typography components can have semantics meaning attached to it.

Typography components control the font property, other applicable styles are inherited by the global or user agent styles. In order to have more control apply the styles in parent container. The purpose of the typography components is to enable adding text content that is themeable.

You can use HTML Text content elements and Content sectioning elements to organize blocks or sections of content.

Use HTML Inline text semantics define the meaning, structure, or style of a word, line, or any arbitrary piece of text.

Usage

import {Heading, Display, Code, Text} from '@asphalt-react/typography'

<Heading>The quick brown fox jumps</Heading>

<Display>The quick brown fox jumps</Display>

<Code>npm install @asphalt-react/typography</Code>

<Text>The quick brown fox jumps</Text>

<Text bold>I have a higher font weight than Text</Text>

Intents

The Heading, Display & Text components have 5 intents to represent different content hierarchy and usages:

• primary: This is the default intent and has the highest hierarchy.
• secondary: This intent signifies copy with a lesser hierarchy than "primary".
• muted: This intent has the lowest hierarchy and is usefult to show copy that should catch least user attention.
• brand: This intent highlights the copy that closely represents the brand.
• onBrand: This intent is useful to render a copy on brand colored surfaces. This intent ensures appropriate contrast ratio with the brand color.

Text additionally supports 4 semantic intents for status and feedback messaging:

• info: a generic informational message.
• success: information with a successful intent.
• warning: information with a warning intent; demands more attention than info.
• danger: critical information that demands the most attention. Used for information leading to destructive actions like removing a user.

Heading

Use Heading to represent the section heading contents, it supports all six levels of section headings from h1 till h6.

Figma Token Mapping

Each heading level maps to a Figma token and its corresponding CSS custom property:

Props

children

React node for heading content.

h1

Render the content as h1 section heading.

h2

Render the content as h2 section heading.

h3

Render the content as h3 section heading.

h4

Render the content as h4 section heading.

h5

Render the content as h5 section heading.

h6

Render the content as h6 section heading.

primary

Renders the text with primary intent. This is the default intent.

secondary

Renders the text with secondary intent.

brand

Renders the text with brand intent.

onBrand

Renders the text with appropriate contrast ration to backgrounds with brand color.

muted

Renders the text with muted intent.

Display

Use Display to put more emphasis on a text. Use it to display a hero or marketing text.

Display by default renders the content in p tag, you can also choose to render in a div or span instead.

Props

children

React node for display content.

size

Controls the size of display.

p

render the display content in a p tag.

span

render the display content in a span tag.

div

render the display content in a div tag.

primary

Renders the text with primary intent. This is the default intent.

secondary

Renders the text with secondary intent.

brand

Renders the text with brand intent.

onBrand

Renders the text with appropriate contrast ratio to backgrounds with brand color.

muted

Renders the text with muted intent.

Code

Code styles text content in a fashion intended to indicate that the text is a short fragment or snippet of computer code.

Props

children

React node for code content.

size

Controls the size of code content.

Text

Use Text to render generic text contents. Text by default renders the text in p tag, you can also choose to render in a div or span instead.

Props

children

React node for text content.

size

Controls the size of text.

bold

Render the bold variant.

Bold variant is only supported for "xs", "s", "m" & "l" sizes.

p

render the content in a p tag.

span

render the content in a span tag.

div

render the content in a div tag.

primary

Renders the text with primary intent. This is the default intent.

secondary

Renders the text with secondary intent.

brand

Renders the text with brand intent.

onBrand

Renders the text with appropriate contrast ratio to backgrounds with brand color.

danger

Renders the text with danger intent.

warning

Renders the text with warning intent.

info

Renders the text with info intent.

success

Renders the text with success intent.

muted

Renders the text with muted intent.

ellipsis

Truncates text with an ellipsis when it overflows its container.