Fonts

There are a number of styling choices for text elements. You can use them to apply font faces, increase or decrease text size, make your text bold, etc.

All font classes start with the fragment font-.

Font Families
Font Sizes
Line Heights
Font Weights
Font Styles
Text Colors
Cutting Off Text

Font Families

These classes will change the font face of the element.

There are two font family definitions available: font-global, which corresponds to the global standard font, and font-headline, which has a font face better suited to larger font sizes.

Text with different font faces

<p class="font-global">
    Text in the global font face.
</p>

Text in the global font face.

<p class="font-headline">
    Text in the font face for headlines.
</p>

Text in the font face for headlines.

Font Sizes

You can use these classes to make your font smaller or larger. All values are based on the document's root font size, which differs between the three states (14px on palm-sized devices and 12px on tablet-/desktop-sized devices).

Text with different font sizes

<p class="font-xs">
    Tiny text you don't want anybody to read
</p>

Tiny text you don't want anybody to read

<p class="font-s">
    Small text
</p>

Small text

<p class="font-standard">
    Standard-sized text
</p>

Standard-sized text

<p class="font-m">
    Slightly larger-than-usual text
</p>

Slightly larger-than-usual text

<p class="font-l">
    Pretty large text (h3)
</p>

Pretty large text (h3)

<p class="font-xl">
    Text that's so large it's basically
    in your face (h2)
</p>

Text that's so large it's basically in your face (h2)

<p class="font-xxl">
    Humongous Text that no-one could
    possibly miss
    (h1 headline)
</p>

Humongous Text that no-one could possibly miss (h1 headline)

Since all classes are root-size based, you can nest as many size declaration as you want without risking unwanted multiplications, as would be the case with parent-relative sizes.

Nested font sizes

<h1 class="font-xxl">
    Outer layer
    <span class="font-standard">
        Middle layer
        <span class="font-l">
            Inner layer
        </span>
    </span>
</h1>

Outer layer Middle layer Inner layer

Line Heights

These classes will change the line height of the element. The line height determines how much whitespace there is above and below the text within each line.

Text with different line heights

<p class="font-line-s">
    Text with a small line height.
    It has no additional whitespace
    above or below the text.
</p>

Text with a small line height. It has no additional whitespace above or below the text.

<p class="font-line-standard">
    Text with the standard line height,
    suitable for block texts. Oh, and
    some additional text so we have a
    line break.
</p>

Text with the standard line height, suitable for block texts. Oh, and some additional text so we have a line break.

<p class="font-line-l">
    Now, this is the story all about how my
    life got flipped, turned upside down.
    And I'd like to take a minute, Just sit
    right there, I'll tell you…
</p>

Now, this is the story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you…

Font Weights

You can make the text of an element bold by appending the class font-bold, or semi-bold by applying the font-semibold class (whether there is any difference between the two depends on the typeface). If you want a previously bolded text to be displayed with normal font weight, use font-normal.

Text with different font weights

<p class="font-bold">
    Bold text
</p>

Bold text

<p class="font-semibold">
    Semi-bold text
</p>

Semi-bold text

<h4 class="font-normal">
    Non-bold text
</h4>

Non-bold text

Font Styles

You can use these classes to make your text italic, strike it through, make all letters uppercase, or capitalize each word.

Text with different font styles

<p class="font-italic">
    Italic text
</p>

Italic text

<p class="font-strike">
    You shouldn't see this, except you should,
    but not really.
</p>

You shouldn't see this, except you should, but not really.

<p class="font-uppercase">
    I like to shout!
</p>

I like to shout!

<h4 class="font-capitalized">
    For when every word in a text should begin
    with an uppercase letter.
</h4>

For when every word in a text should begin with an uppercase letter.

Text Colors

There are a number of colors you can give your text, including signal colors for status information and others to make the text either more or less visible.

Font with different colors

<p class="font-light">
    I am lighter than usual because I am either
    not important or legal mumbo jumbo.
</p>

I am lighter than usual because I am either not important or legal mumbo jumbo.

<p class="font-confirm">
    I am green so that you see that all's well.
</p>

I am green so that you see that all's well.

Colors

These are the colors you can use.

Plain Colors

Regular: font-regular
Light: font-light
White: font-white

Status Information

Confirmation: font-confirm
Information: font-info
Warning: font-warning
Error: font-error

CI Colors

Brand orange: font-brandorange
Brand blue: font-brandblue

Cutting Off Text

When you need to make sure that a certain text takes up only one line, regardless of its length, you can use the font-ellipsis class.

The text will be cut off at the end of the first line, and instead show an ellipsis (…) to indicate that more follows.

Text with different font styles

<dl class="grid gutter">
  <dt class="grid-item one-third">
    E-Mail:
  </dt>
  <dd class="grid-item two-thirds">
    <span class="font-ellipsis">really-long.user-e-mail@ludicrously-named-provider.example</span>
  </dd>
</dl>

E-Mail:: really-long.user-e-mail@ludicrously-named-provider.example