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layout: docs
title: Typography
description: Documentation and examples for Bootstrap typography, including global settings, headings, body text, lists, and more.
group: content
Bootstrap sets basic global display, typography, and link styles. When more control is needed, check out the [textual utility classes]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/text/).
font-family
for each OS and device.font-size
(typically 16px) so visitors can customize their browser defaults as needed.$font-family-base
, $font-size-base
, and $line-height-base
attributes as our typographic base applied to the <body>
.$link-color
and apply link underlines only on :hover
.$body-bg
to set a background-color
on the <body>
(#fff
by default).These styles can be found within _reboot.scss
, and the global variables are defined in _variables.scss
. Make sure to set $font-size-base
in rem
.
All HTML headings, <h1>
through <h6>
, are available.
Heading | Example |
---|---|
{{ "``" | markdownify }} | h1. Bootstrap heading |
{{ "``" | markdownify }} | h2. Bootstrap heading |
{{ "``" | markdownify }} | h3. Bootstrap heading |
{{ "``" | markdownify }} | h4. Bootstrap heading |
{{ "``" | markdownify }} | h5. Bootstrap heading |
{{ "``" | markdownify }} | h6. Bootstrap heading |
{% highlight html %}
.h1
through .h6
classes are also available, for when you want to match the font styling of a heading but cannot use the associated HTML element.
{% capture example %}
h1. Bootstrap heading
h2. Bootstrap heading
h3. Bootstrap heading
h4. Bootstrap heading
h5. Bootstrap heading
h6. Bootstrap heading
Use the included utility classes to recreate the small secondary heading text from Bootstrap 3.
{% highlight html %}
Traditional heading elements are designed to work best in the meat of your page content. When you need a heading to stand out, consider using a display heading—a larger, slightly more opinionated heading style.
Display 1 |
Display 2 |
Display 3 |
Display 4 |
{% highlight html %}
Make a paragraph stand out by adding .lead
.
{% capture example %}
Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus.
Styling for common inline HTML5 elements.
{% capture example %}
You can use the mark tag to highlight text.
This line of text is meant to be treated as deleted text.
This line of text is meant to be treated as no longer accurate.
This line of text is meant to be treated as an addition to the document.
This line of text will render as underlined
This line of text is meant to be treated as fine print.
This line rendered as bold text.
This line rendered as italicized text.
.mark
and .small
classes are also available to apply the same styles as <mark>
and <small>
while avoiding any unwanted semantic implications that the tags would bring.
While not shown above, feel free to use <b>
and <i>
in HTML5. <b>
is meant to highlight words or phrases without conveying additional importance while <i>
is mostly for voice, technical terms, etc.
Change text alignment, transform, style, weight, and color with our [text utilities]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/text/) and [color utilities]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/utilities/colors/).
Stylized implementation of HTML's <abbr>
element for abbreviations and acronyms to show the expanded version on hover. Abbreviations have a default underline and gain a help cursor to provide additional context on hover and to users of assistive technologies.
Add .initialism
to an abbreviation for a slightly smaller font-size.
{% capture example %}
attr
HTML
For quoting blocks of content from another source within your document. Wrap <blockquote class="blockquote">
around any HTML as the quote.
{% capture example %}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.
Add a <footer class="blockquote-footer">
for identifying the source. Wrap the name of the source work in <cite>
.
{% capture example %}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.
Someone famous in Source Title
Use text utilities as needed to change the alignment of your blockquote.
{% capture example %}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.
Someone famous in Source Title
{% capture example %}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.
Someone famous in Source Title
Remove the default list-style
and left margin on list items (immediate children only). This only applies to immediate children list items, meaning you will need to add the class for any nested lists as well.
{% capture example %}
Remove a list's bullets and apply some light margin
with a combination of two classes, .list-inline
and .list-inline-item
.
{% capture example %}
Align terms and descriptions horizontally by using our grid system's predefined classes (or semantic mixins). For longer terms, you can optionally add a .text-truncate
class to truncate the text with an ellipsis.
{% capture example %}
Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper eget lacinia odio sem nec elit.
Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus.
Responsive typography refers to scaling text and components by simply adjusting the root element's font-size
within a series of media queries. Bootstrap doesn't do this for you, but it's fairly easy to add if you need it.
Here's an example of it in practice. Choose whatever font-size
s and media queries you wish.
{% highlight scss %}
html {
font-size: 1rem;
}
@include media-breakpoint-up(sm) {
html {
font-size: 1.2rem;
}
}
@include media-breakpoint-up(md) {
html {
font-size: 1.4rem;
}
}
@include media-breakpoint-up(lg) {
html {
font-size: 1.6rem;
}
}
{% endhighlight %}