Typography theming

Material Design typography theming can be used to create typographic styles that reflect your brand or style by defining a set of type scales which will be used throughout your app. You can use type scales to customize the appearance of text in Material components.

Design and API Documentation

Material Design guidelines: Typography

Usage

Baseline scale

Attribute name	Default style
`textAppearanceDisplayLarge`	Regular 57sp
`textAppearanceDisplayMedium`	Regular 45sp
`textAppearanceDisplaySmall`	Regular 36sp
`textAppearanceHeadlineLarge`	Regular 32sp
`textAppearanceHeadlineMedium`	Regular 28sp
`textAppearanceHeadlineSmall`	Regular 24sp
`textAppearanceTitleLarge`	Regular 22sp
`textAppearanceTitleMedium`	Medium 16sp
`textAppearanceTitleSmall`	Medium 14sp
`textAppearanceBodyLarge`	Regular 16sp
`textAppearanceBodyMedium`	Regular 14sp
`textAppearanceBodySmall`	Regular 12sp
`textAppearanceLabelLarge`	Medium 14sp
`textAppearanceLabelMedium`	Medium 12sp
`textAppearanceLabelSmall`	Medium 11sp

Emphasized scale

Emphasized styles are used to create hierarchy and are recommended for showing selection, actions, headlines, or other editorial treatments.

Attribute name	Default style
`textAppearanceDisplayLargeEmphasized`	Medium 57sp
`textAppearanceDisplayMediumEmphasized`	Medium 45sp
`textAppearanceDisplaySmallEmphasized`	Medium 36sp
`textAppearanceHeadlineLargeEmphasized`	Medium 32sp
`textAppearanceHeadlineMediumEmphasized`	Medium 28sp
`textAppearanceHeadlineSmallEmphasized`	Medium 24sp
`textAppearanceTitleLargeEmphasized`	Medium 22sp
`textAppearanceTitleMediumEmphasized`	Bold 16sp
`textAppearanceTitleSmallEmphasized`	Bold 14sp
`textAppearanceBodyLargeEmphasized`	Medium 16sp
`textAppearanceBodyMediumEmphasized`	Medium 14sp
`textAppearanceBodySmallEmphasized`	Medium 12sp
`textAppearanceLabelLargeEmphasized`	Bold 14sp
`textAppearanceLabelMediumEmphasized`	Bold 12sp
`textAppearanceLabelSmallEmphasized`	Bold 11sp

Style values

Style values are a combination of the following:

Font face name and weight
Font size
Letter spacing
Text transformation (e.g., all caps)

Customization

The components included in the Material Design Library reference these themeable text attributes, enabling you to easily change text appearance across your whole application. If you display text in TextViews or create custom components, consider referencing one of these text attributes where it makes sense.

You can change the look of any text style by creating a new style and setting it in your theme:

xml

<style name="TextAppearance.MyApp.DisplaySmall" parent="TextAppearance.Material3.DisplaySmall">
  ...
  <item name="fontFamily">@font/custom_font</item>
  <item name="android:textStyle">normal</item>
  <item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
  <item name="android:textSize">64sp</item>
  <item name="android:letterSpacing">0</item>
  ...
</style>

xml

<style name="Theme.MyApp" parent="Theme.Material3.DayNight.NoActionBar">
  ...
  <item name="textAppearanceDisplaySmall">@style/TextAppearance.MyApp.DisplaySmall</item>
  ...
</style>

Downloadable fonts

Android O and Android Support Library 26 add support for Downloadable Fonts. This allows you to easily use the entire Google Fonts Open Source collection without bundling a font with your apk. Find more information at https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/android.

Note: If you want to use a Downloadable Font before Android O, make sure you are using AppCompatTextView or that you are loading the font yourself with ResourcesCompat.getFont().