Typography

Typeface

The sans-serif font stack is used to display all typography within Chi except code. For code, Chi defers to a monospace font stack.

Sans-serif font stack

font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;

Monospace font stack

font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Courier, monospace;

Headings

Headings are used to illustrate the typographic hierarchy of a page. h1 defines the most important heading and h6 the least.

Heading
Example
<h1>

h1 Chi heading

<h2>

h2 Chi heading

<h3>

h3 Chi heading

<h4>

h4 Chi heading

<h5>
h5 Chi heading
<h6>
h6 Chi heading

Body text

Chi's default font size is 14px (0.875rem) and is intended to maximize screen real estate in dense, app oriented interfaces.

Font size
Example

14px (0.875rem)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum lacus lacus, dictum quis mauris vel, commodo condimentum odio. Praesent lacus metus, vehicula at orci ac, fringilla mollis mauris.

Inline text

Styles for common inline text elements. Styles can be defined as tags <code> or classes .chi-code.

Tag
Example
<abbr>Abbreviated
<b>Bold
<code>Code
<del>Delete
<em>Emphasis
<i>Italic
<mark>Mark
<small>Small
<strong>Strong

Code

Inline code

Code tags are used to wrap inline snippets of code.

This <code> will render as inline code.

This <code>&lt;code&gt;</code> will render as inline code.

Code blocks

Pre tags are used to wrap multiple lines of code.

<p>This code will render as a code block.</p>
<pre>
  <code>&lt;p&gt;This code will render as a code block.&lt;/p&gt;</code>
</pre>

Lists

Base

Use <ul> tags for unordered lists and <ol> tags for ordered lists.

  • List item 1
  • List item 2
    • List item 2.1
    • List item 2.2
  • List item 3
  • List item 4
<ul class="-text">
  <li></li>
</ul>
  1. List item 1
  2. List item 2
    • List item 2.1
    • List item 2.2
  3. List item 3
  4. List item 4
<ol class="-text">
  <li></li>
</ol>

No style

To remove default list styling, apply the class .-no-style

  • List item 1
  • List item 2
    • List item 2.1
    • List item 2.2
  • List item 3
  • List item 4
<ul class="-text -no-style">
  <li></li>
</ul>

Inline

To display list items inline, apply the class -inline

  • List item 1
  • List item 2
    • List item 2.1
    • List item 2.2
  • List item 3
  • List item 4
<ul class="-text -inline">
  <li></li>
</ul>

Blockquotes

Blockquotes are used to quote content from another source.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum lacus lacus, dictum quis mauris vel, commodo condimentum odio. Praesent lacus metus, vehicula at orci ac, fringilla mollis mauris.

<blockquote>
  <p class="-text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum lacus lacus, dictum quis mauris vel, commodo condimentum odio. Praesent lacus metus, vehicula at orci ac, fringilla mollis mauris.</p>
</blockquote>