styled-type v1.0.2

styled-type

Responsive typography system for styled-components. Leverages styled-system under the hood.

Install

npm install styled-type

Setup

styled-type lets you define type styles in you styled-components theme.

Before anything, make sure you wrap your app or component in <ThemeProvider>.

Next, extend your theme object with a typeStyles prop.

const theme = {
  ...
  typeStyles: {
    heading: {
      fontSize: [32, 48, 64],
      lineHeight: 1.1,
    },
    subhead: {
      fontSize: [21, 24, 32],
      lineHeight: 1.1,
    },
    body: {
      fontSize: [16, 18, 21],
      lineHeight: 1.4,
    }
  }
}

Import the <Text> component from styled-type and use the typeStyle prop to style your typography.

import React from "react";
import { Text } from "styled-type";

export const MyComponent = props => (
  <article>
    <Text as="h1" typeStyle="heading">
      Aliens attack Earth!
    </Text>
    <Text as="h2" typeStyle="subhead">
      All hope is lost
    </Text>
    <Text typeStyle="body">{props.body}</Text>
  </article>
);

Props

The only custom prop is typeStyle. The as polymorphic prop lets you render any tag you want using your defined styles.

All other props are passed through, so you can easily extend the component if you like. Since this leverages styled-components, you can wrap the <Text> component in styled() and use the passed props in a custom component.

<Text as="cite" typeStyle="small">
  Hello World
</Text>

typeStyles

The typeStyles property on the theme object will accept anything as a key. It's up to you how to define your typography styles. Any prop from typography, color, space, and layout in the styled-system API is valid.

const theme = {
  ...
  typeStyles: {
    hero: {
      fontFamily: 'Helvetica, sans-serif',
      fontSize: [55, 73, 81],
      fontWeight: 700,
      lineHeight: 1.1,
      letterSpacing: '-0.02em',
      color: ['black', 'grey', 'white']
    },
    highlight: {
      backgroundColor: 'yellow',
      paddingLeft: '0.5em',
      paddingRight: '0.5em',
    },
    code: {
      fontSize: [16, 18],
      fontFamily: 'monospace',
      lineHeight: 1.25
    }
  }
}

Responsive props

Every prop accepts an array of values that make it responsive.

    fontSize: [16, 24, 32],
    color: ['red', 'green', 'blue']

These are controlled by styled-system's breakpoints and can redefined in your theme object. Learn more about array props.

Why not Variants?

Variants in styled-system only accept CSS style objects, limiting the ability to use the responsive features. But, this is a super useful tool, and textStyles and colorStyles are passed to <Text> so they can be used in conjuction.

// theme.js
const theme = {
  textStyles: {
    caps: {
      textTransform: 'uppercase',
    }
  },
  typeStyles: {
    heading: {
      fontSize: [32, 48, 64],
      lineHeight: 1.1,
    }
  }
}

// Component.js
<Text typeStyle="heading" textStyle="caps">Hello World</Text>

License

MIT