Typography

Typography Sets

Typography sets in ModulateCSS provide a unified approach to managing font styles across your web projects, ensuring that typography is consistent, responsive, and accessible.

This guide will walk you through the fundamentals of setting up typography sets, using CSS custom properties for dynamic theming, and best practices for maintaining scalable typography.

Defining Typography Sets

ModulateCSS allows you to define a set of typographic styles that can be reused throughout your application. These sets typically include font size, line height, font weight, and letter spacing, which are configured to adapt across different devices and viewing environments.

@layer typography {
    :root {
        --font-family-default: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
        --font-family-serif: 'Merriweather', serif;
    }
 
    .text-body {
        font-family: var(--font-family-default);
        font-size: var(--font-size-body, 1rem);
        line-height: 1.6;
        color: var(--color-text-primary);
    }
 
    .text-heading {
        font-family: var(--font-family-serif);
        font-size: calc(1.375rem + 1.5vw);
        font-weight: bold;
        line-height: 1.3;
        margin-bottom: 1rem;
    }
}

Usage in HTML

Once your typography sets are defined, you can easily apply them throughout your HTML documents, ensuring that all text elements have a consistent appearance.

<article>
    <h1 className="text-heading">Welcome to ModulateCSS</h1>
    <p className="text-body">
        Discover the power of structured, maintainable CSS with ModulateCSS's advanced features and design principles.
    </p>
</article>

Responsive Typography

To enhance the readability and accessibility of your web application across devices, ModulateCSS encourages the use of responsive typography techniques, such as fluid typography using CSS clamp() function.

.text-body {
    font-size: clamp(0.9rem, 2vw + 1rem, 1.2rem);
}

This approach ensures that your typography scales smoothly between specified minimum and maximum values based on the viewport width, improving user experience on mobile, tablet, and desktop displays.

Best Practices

When working with typography sets, consider the following best practices to maximize the effectiveness and maintainability of your typographic styles:

• Accessibility: Ensure text is legible and accessible by using sufficient contrast ratios and scalable units like rem for font sizes.
• Performance: Use web-safe or system fonts to minimize loading times, or ensure custom fonts are loaded efficiently using modern font loading techniques.
• Maintainability: Leverage CSS custom properties to theme and re-theme typography dynamically, facilitating easy updates and consistency across different themes or modules.

Conclusion

Typography sets in ModulateCSS are designed to provide you with a powerful yet flexible system for managing your site's typography. By following these guidelines, you can ensure that your text is not only visually consistent but also optimized for performance and accessibility across all user devices.