⛔️ DEPRECATED

Tailwind CSS has an official typography plugin that you should use instead of this one. It may not support all the features that this one has (its main use case is styling “vanilla HTML”), but it works with the latest versions of Tailwind, which also support a lot more typography utilities (indent, font-variant-numeric, text decoration color, style, and thickness, etc.).

Typography Plugin for Tailwind CSS

Requirements

This plugin requires Tailwind CSS 1.2 or later. If your project uses an older version of Tailwind, you should install the latest 2.x version of this plugin (npm install [email protected]).

Installation

npm install tailwindcss-typography

Usage

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    textIndent: { // defaults to {}
      '1': '0.25rem',
      '2': '0.5rem',
    },
    textShadow: { // defaults to {}
      'default': '0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)',
      'lg': '0 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)',
    },
    textDecorationStyle: { // defaults to these values
      'solid': 'solid',
      'double': 'double',
      'dotted': 'dotted',
      'dashed': 'dashed',
      'wavy': 'wavy',
    },
    textDecorationColor: { // defaults to theme => theme('colors')
      'red': '#f00',
      'green': '#0f0',
      'blue': '#00f',
    },
    fontVariantCaps: { // defaults to these values
      'normal': 'normal',
      'small': 'small-caps',
      'all-small': 'all-small-caps',
      'petite': 'petite-caps',
      'unicase': 'unicase',
      'titling': 'titling-caps',
    },
    fontVariantNumeric: { // defaults to these values
      'normal': 'normal',
      'ordinal': 'ordinal',
      'slashed-zero': 'slashed-zero',
      'lining': 'lining-nums',
      'oldstyle': 'oldstyle-nums',
      'proportional': 'proportional-nums',
      'tabular': 'tabular-nums',
      'diagonal-fractions': 'diagonal-fractions',
      'stacked-fractions': 'stacked-fractions',
    },
    fontVariantLigatures: { // defaults to these values
      'normal': 'normal',
      'none': 'none',
      'common': 'common-ligatures',
      'no-common': 'no-common-ligatures',
      'discretionary': 'discretionary-ligatures',
      'no-discretionary': 'no-discretionary-ligatures',
      'historical': 'historical-ligatures',
      'no-historical': 'no-historical-ligatures',
      'contextual': 'contextual',
      'no-contextual': 'no-contextual',
    },
    textRendering: { // defaults to these values
      'rendering-auto': 'auto',
      'optimize-legibility': 'optimizeLegibility',
      'optimize-speed': 'optimizeSpeed',
      'geometric-precision': 'geometricPrecision'
    },
    textStyles: theme => ({ // defaults to {}
      heading: {
        output: false, // this means there won't be a "heading" component in the CSS, but it can be extended
        fontWeight: theme('fontWeight.bold'),
        lineHeight: theme('lineHeight.tight'),
      },
      h1: {
        extends: 'heading', // this means all the styles in "heading" will be copied here; "extends" can also be an array to extend multiple text styles
        fontSize: theme('fontSize.5xl'),
        '@screen sm': {
          fontSize: theme('fontSize.6xl'),
        },
      },
      h2: {
        extends: 'heading',
        fontSize: theme('fontSize.4xl'),
        '@screen sm': {
          fontSize: theme('fontSize.5xl'),
        },
      },
      h3: {
        extends: 'heading',
        fontSize: theme('fontSize.4xl'),
      },
      h4: {
        extends: 'heading',
        fontSize: theme('fontSize.3xl'),
      },
      h5: {
        extends: 'heading',
        fontSize: theme('fontSize.2xl'),
      },
      h6: {
        extends: 'heading',
        fontSize: theme('fontSize.xl'),
      },
      link: {
        fontWeight: theme('fontWeight.bold'),
        color: theme('colors.blue.400'),
        '&:hover': {
          color: theme('colors.blue.600'),
          textDecoration: 'underline',
        },
      },
      richText: {
        fontWeight: theme('fontWeight.normal'),
        fontSize: theme('fontSize.base'),
        lineHeight: theme('lineHeight.relaxed'),
        '> * + *': {
          marginTop: '1em',
        },
        'h1': {
          extends: 'h1',
        },
        'h2': {
          extends: 'h2',
        },
        'h3': {
          extends: 'h3',
        },
        'h4': {
          extends: 'h4',
        },
        'h5': {
          extends: 'h5',
        },
        'h6': {
          extends: 'h6',
        },
        'ul': {
          listStyleType: 'disc',
        },
        'ol': {
          listStyleType: 'decimal',
        },
        'a': {
          extends: 'link',
        },
        'b, strong': {
          fontWeight: theme('fontWeight.bold'),
        },
        'i, em': {
          fontStyle: 'italic',
        },
      },
    }),
  },
  variants: { // all the following default to ['responsive']
    textIndent: ['responsive'],
    textShadow: ['responsive'],
    textDecorationStyle: ['responsive'],
    textDecorationColor: ['responsive'],
    ellipsis: ['responsive'],
    hyphens: ['responsive'],
    kerning: ['responsive'],
    textUnset: ['responsive'],
    fontVariantCaps: ['responsive'],
    fontVariantNumeric: ['responsive'],
    fontVariantLigatures: ['responsive'],
    textRendering: ['responsive'],
  },
  plugins: [
    require('tailwindcss-typography')({
      // all these options default to the values specified here
      ellipsis: true,         // whether to generate ellipsis utilities
      hyphens: true,          // whether to generate hyphenation utilities
      kerning: true,          // whether to generate kerning utilities
      textUnset: true,        // whether to generate utilities to unset text properties
      componentPrefix: 'c-',  // the prefix to use for text style classes
    }),
  ],
};

This plugin generates the following utilities:

/* configurable with the "textIndent" theme object */
.indent-[key] {
  text-indent: [value];
}

/* configurable with the "textShadow" theme object */
/* note: the "default" key generates a simple "text-shadow" class (instead of "text-shadow-default") */
.text-shadow-[key] {
  text-shadow: [value];
}

/* configurable with the "textDecorationStyle" theme object */
.line-[key] {
  text-decoration-style: [value];
}

/* configurable with the "textDecorationColor" theme object */
.line-[key] {
  text-decoration-color: [value];
}

/* generated when the "ellipsis" option is set to true */
.ellipsis {
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
.no-ellipsis {
  text-overflow: clip;
}

/* generated when the "hyphens" option is set to true */
.hyphens-none {
  hyphens: none;
}
.hyphens-manual {
  hyphens: manual;
}
.hyphens-auto {
  hyphens: auto;
}

/* generated when the "kerning" option is set to true */
.kerning {
  font-kerning: normal;
}
.kerning-none {
  font-kerning: none;
}
.kerning-auto {
  font-kerning: auto;
}

/* generated when the "textUnset" option is set to true */
.font-family-unset {
  font-family: inherit;
}
.font-weight-unset {
  font-weight: inherit;
}
.font-style-unset {
  font-style: inherit;
}
.text-size-unset {
  font-size: inherit;
}
.text-align-unset {
  text-align: inherit;
}
.leading-unset {
  line-height: inherit;
}
.tracking-unset {
  letter-spacing: inherit;
}
.text-color-unset {
  color: inherit;
}
.text-transform-unset {
  text-transform: inherit;
}

/* configurable with the "fontVariantCaps" theme object */
.caps-normal {
  font-variant-caps: normal;
}
.caps-small {
  font-variant-caps: small-caps;
}
.caps-all-small {
  font-variant-caps: all-small-caps;
}
.caps-petite {
  font-variant-caps: petite-caps;
}
.caps-unicase {
  font-variant-caps: unicase;
}
.caps-titling {
  font-variant-caps: titling-caps;
}

/* configurable with the "fontVariantNumeric" theme object */
.nums-normal {
  font-variant-numeric: normal;
}
.nums-ordinal {
  font-variant-numeric: ordinal;
}
.nums-slashed-zero {
  font-variant-numeric: slashed-zero;
}
.nums-lining {
  font-variant-numeric: lining-nums;
}
.nums-oldstyle {
  font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums;
}
.nums-proportional {
  font-variant-numeric: proportional-nums;
}
.nums-tabular {
  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
.nums-diagonal-fractions {
  font-variant-numeric: diagonal-fractions;
}
.nums-stacked-fractions {
  font-variant-numeric: stacked-fractions;
}

/* configurable with the "fontVariantLigatures" theme object */
.ligatures-normal {
  font-variant-ligatures: normal;
}
.ligatures-none {
  font-variant-ligatures: none;
}
.ligatures-common {
  font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
}
.ligatures-no-common {
  font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;
}
.ligatures-discretionary {
  font-variant-ligatures: discretionary-ligatures;
}
.ligatures-no-discretionary {
  font-variant-ligatures: no-discretionary-ligatures;
}
.ligatures-historical {
  font-variant-ligatures: historical-ligatures;
}
.ligatures-no-historical {
  font-variant-ligatures: no-historical-ligatures;
}
.ligatures-contextual {
  font-variant-ligatures: contextual;
}
.ligatures-no-contextual {
  font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;
}

/* configurable with the "textRendering" theme object */
.text-rendering-auto {
  text-rendering: auto;
}
.text-optimize-legibility {
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
}
.text-optimize-speed {
  text-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
}
.text-geometric-precision {
  text-rendering: geometricPrecision;
}

The plugin also generates components for text styles. The above config example would generate something like this:

.c-h1 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 3rem;
}
@media (min-width: 640px) {
  .c-h1 {
    font-size: 4rem;
  }
}
.c-h2 {
  font-weight: 800;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 2.25rem;
}
@media (min-width: 640px) {
  .c-h2 {
    font-size: 3rem;
  }
}
.c-h3 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 2.25rem;
}
.c-h4 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 1.875rem;
}
.c-h5 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 1.5rem;
}
.c-h6 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 1.25rem;
}

.c-link {
  font-weight: 700;
  color: #63b3ed;
}
.c-link:hover {
  color: #3182ce;
  text-decoration: underline;
}

.c-rich-text {
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 1rem;
  line-height: 1.625;
}
.c-rich-text > * + * {
  margin-top: 1em;
}
.c-rich-text h1 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 3rem;
}
@media (min-width: 640px) {
  .c-rich-text h1 {
    font-size: 4rem;
  }
}
.c-rich-text h2 {
  font-weight: 800;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 2.25rem;
}
@media (min-width: 640px) {
  .c-rich-text h2 {
    font-size: 3rem;
  }
}
.c-rich-text h3 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 2.25rem;
}
.c-rich-text h4 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 1.875rem;
}
.c-rich-text h5 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 1.5rem;
}
.c-rich-text h6 {
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 1.25;
  font-size: 1.25rem;
}
.c-rich-text ul {
  list-style-type: disc;
}
.c-rich-text ol {
  list-style-type: decimal;
}
.c-rich-text a {
  font-weight: 700;
  color: #63b3ed;
}
.c-rich-text a:hover {
  color: #3182ce;
  text-decoration: underline;
}
.c-rich-text b, .c-rich-text strong {
  font-weight: 700;
}
.c-rich-text i, .c-rich-text em {
  font-style: italic;
}