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Typography

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

Variant

subtitle2
body1
body2
<Box sx={{ typography: 'subtitle2' }}>… // theme.typography.subtitle2
<Box sx={{ typography: 'body1' }}>…
<Box sx={{ typography: 'body2' }}>…

Text alignment

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Left aligned text.
Center aligned text.
Right aligned text.
<Box sx={{ textAlign: 'left' }}>…
<Box sx={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>…
<Box sx={{ textAlign: 'right' }}>…

Text transformation

capitalized text.
Lowercase Text.
Uppercase Text.
<Box sx={{ textTransform: 'capitalize' }}>…
<Box sx={{ textTransform: 'lowercase' }}>…
<Box sx={{ textTransform: 'uppercase' }}>…

Font weight

Light
Regular
Medium
500
Bold
<Box sx={{ fontWeight: 'light' }}>… // theme.typography.fontWeightLight
<Box sx={{ fontWeight: 'regular' }}>…
<Box sx={{ fontWeight: 'medium' }}>…
<Box sx={{ fontWeight: 500 }}>…
<Box sx={{ fontWeight: 'bold' }}>…

Font size

Default
h6.fontSize
16px
<Box sx={{ fontSize: 'default' }}>…  // theme.typography.fontSize
<Box sx={{ fontSize: 'h6.fontSize' }}>…
<Box sx={{ fontSize: 16 }}>…

Font style

Normal font style.
Italic font Style.
Oblique font style.
<Box sx={{ fontStyle: 'normal' }}>…
<Box sx={{ fontStyle: 'italic' }}>…
<Box sx={{ fontStyle: 'oblique' }}>…

Font family

Default
Monospace
<Box sx={{ fontFamily: 'default' }}>…
<Box sx={{ fontFamily: 'Monospace' }}>…

Letter spacing

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

Line height

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

API

import { typography } from '@mui/system';
Import name Prop CSS property Theme key
typography typography font-family, font-weight, font-size, line-height, letter-spacing, text-transform typography
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
textTransform textTransform text-transform none