Typography
Documentation and examples for merit typography, including global settings, headings, body text, lists, and more.
Headings
All HTML headings, <h1> through <h6>, are available.
h1. merit heading
h2. merit heading
h3. merit heading
h4. merit heading
h5. merit heading
h6. merit heading
h1. heading
h2. heading
h3. heading
h4. heading
h5. heading
h6. heading
.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.
h1. merit heading
h2. merit heading
h3. merit heading
h4. merit heading
h5. merit heading
h6. merit heading
h1. heading
h2. heading
h3. heading
h4. heading
h5. heading
h6. heading
Display headings
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
Display 1
Display 2
Display 3
Display 4
Lead
Make a paragraph stand out by adding .lead.
This is a lead paragraph. It stands out from regular paragraphs.
This is a lead paragraph. It stands out from regular paragraphs.
Inline text elements
Styling for common inline HTML5 elements.
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.
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.
Blockquotes
For quoting blocks of content from another source within your document. Wrap
<blockquote class="blockquote"> around any HTML
as the quote.
A well-known quote, contained in a blockquote element.
A well-known quote, contained in a blockquote element with source.
A well-known quote, contained in a blockquote element.
A well-known quote, contained in a blockquote element with source.
Lists
Unstyled
Remove the default list-style and left margin on list items.
This only applies to immediate children list items,
meaning you will need to add the class for any nested lists as well.
- This is a list.
- It appears completely unstyled.
- Structurally, it's still a list.
- However, this style only applies to immediate child elements.
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Nested lists:
- are unaffected by this style
- will still show a bullet
- and have appropriate left margin
- This may still come in handy in some situations.
- This is a list.
- It appears completely unstyled.
- Structurally, it's still a list.
- However, this style only applies to immediate child elements.
-
Nested lists:
- are unaffected by this style
- will still show a bullet
- and have appropriate left margin
- This may still come in handy in some situations.
Inline
Remove a list’s bullets and apply some light margin with a
combination of two classes, .list-inline and .list-inline-item.
- This is a list item.
- And another one.
- But they're displayed inline.
- This is a list item.
- And another one.
- But they're displayed inline.
Description list alignment
Align terms and descriptions horizontally by using bootstrap grid system’s predefined classes.
For longer terms, you can optionally add a .text-truncate class to truncate the text with an ellipsis.
- Description lists
- A description list is perfect for defining terms.
- Term
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Definition for the term.
And some more placeholder definition text.
- Another term
- This definition is short, so no extra paragraphs or anything.
- Truncated term is truncated
- This can be useful when space is tight. Adds an ellipsis at the end.
- Nesting
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- Nested definition list
- I heard you like definition lists. Let me put a definition list inside your definition list.
- Description lists
- A description list is perfect for defining terms.
- Term
-
Definition for the term.
And some more placeholder definition text.
- Another term
- This definition is short, so no extra paragraphs or anything.
- Truncated term is truncated
- This can be useful when space is tight. Adds an ellipsis at the end.
- Nesting
-
- Nested definition list
- I heard you like definition lists. Let me put a definition list inside your definition list.