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Typography preset

Provides a set of prose classes you can use to add typographic defaults to vanilla HTML.

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Installation

bash
pnpm add -D @unocss/preset-typography
pnpm add -D @unocss/preset-typography
bash
yarn add -D @unocss/preset-typography
yarn add -D @unocss/preset-typography
bash
npm install -D @unocss/preset-typography
npm install -D @unocss/preset-typography

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This preset is included in the unocss package, you can also import it from there:

ts
import { presetTypography } from 'unocss'
import { presetTypography } from 'unocss'

Usage

js
// uno.config.ts
import {
  defineConfig,
  presetAttributify, presetTypography, presetUno
} from 'unocss'

export default defineConfig({
  presets: [
    presetAttributify(), // required when using attributify mode
    presetUno(), // required
    presetTypography(),
  ],
})
// uno.config.ts
import {
  defineConfig,
  presetAttributify, presetTypography, presetUno
} from 'unocss'

export default defineConfig({
  presets: [
    presetAttributify(), // required when using attributify mode
    presetUno(), // required
    presetTypography(),
  ],
})
html
<article class="text-base prose prose-truegray xl:text-xl">
  {{ markdown }}
  <p class="not-prose">
    Some text
  </p>
</article>
<article class="text-base prose prose-truegray xl:text-xl">
  {{ markdown }}
  <p class="not-prose">
    Some text
  </p>
</article>
html
<article text-base prose prose-truegray xl="text-xl">
  {{ markdown }}
  <p class="not-prose">
    Some text
  </p>
</article>
<article text-base prose prose-truegray xl="text-xl">
  {{ markdown }}
  <p class="not-prose">
    Some text
  </p>
</article>

WARNING

Notice: not-prose can only be used as a class, not as an attribute.

Highlights

Any font size

Apply any font size for body you like and prose will scale the styles for the respective HTML elements. For instance, prose text-lg has body font size 1.125rem and h1 will with scale with that size 2.25 times. See all the supported HTML elements.

Any color

Apply any color with prose-${colorName} by UnoCSS (e.g. prose-coolgray, prose-sky) since prose does not have any color by default. See all available colors. For instance, prose prose-truegray will use the respective colors for the respective HTML elements.

Dark mode with a single utility

Apply typographic dark mode with prose-invert (background color needs to be handled by users). For instance, prose dark:prose-invert will use the inverted colors in the dark mode.

Your very own style

Styles of elements not within prose will stay the same. No style resetting just like UnoCSS.

Undo with not utility

Apply not-prose to the elements to undo the typographic styles. For instance, <table class="not-prose"> will skip the styles by this preset for the table element (NOTE: not utility is only usable in class since it is only used in CSS selector & not scanned by UnoCSS).

Compatibility options

This preset uses some pseudo-classes which are not widely supported, but you can disable them. (#2064)

  • If you enable noColonNot or noColonWhere, not-prose will be unavailable.
  • If you enable noColonIs, attributify mode will have a wrong behavior.

Utilities

RuleStyles by this rule
proseSee on GitHub.

Colors

Rules (color)
prose-rose
prose-pink
prose-fuchsia
prose-purple
prose-violet
prose-indigo
prose-blue
prose-sky
prose-cyan
prose-teal
prose-emerald
prose-green
prose-lime
prose-yellow
prose-amber
prose-orange
prose-red
prose-gray
prose-slate
prose-zinc
prose-neutral
prose-stone

Options

This preset has selectorName and cssExtend configurations for users who like to override or extend.

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The CSS declarations passed to cssExtend will

  • override the built-in styles if the values are conflicting, else
  • be merged deeply with built-in styles.

selectorName

  • Type: string
  • Default: prose

The class name to use the typographic utilities. To undo the styles to the elements, use it like not-${selectorName} which is by default not-prose.

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not utility is only available in class.

cssExtend

  • Type: Record<string, CSSObject>
  • Default: undefined

Extend or override CSS selectors with CSS declaration block.

compatibility

  • Type: TypographyCompatibilityOptions
  • Default: undefined

See Compatibility options.

WARNING

Notice that it will affect some features.

ts
interface TypographyCompatibilityOptions {
  noColonWhere?: boolean
  noColonIs?: boolean
  noColonNot?: boolean
}
interface TypographyCompatibilityOptions {
  noColonWhere?: boolean
  noColonIs?: boolean
  noColonNot?: boolean
}

Example

ts
// uno.config.ts
import { defineConfig, presetAttributify, presetUno } from 'unocss'
import { presetTypography } from '@unocss/preset-typography'

export default defineConfig({
  presets: [
    presetAttributify(), // required if using attributify mode
    presetUno(), // required
    presetTypography({
      selectorName: 'markdown', // now use like `markdown markdown-gray`, `not-markdown`
      // cssExtend is an object with CSS selector as key and
      // CSS declaration block as value like writing normal CSS.
      cssExtend: {
        'code': {
          color: '#8b5cf6',
        },
        'a:hover': {
          color: '#f43f5e',
        },
        'a:visited': {
          color: '#14b8a6',
        },
      },
    }),
  ],
})
// uno.config.ts
import { defineConfig, presetAttributify, presetUno } from 'unocss'
import { presetTypography } from '@unocss/preset-typography'

export default defineConfig({
  presets: [
    presetAttributify(), // required if using attributify mode
    presetUno(), // required
    presetTypography({
      selectorName: 'markdown', // now use like `markdown markdown-gray`, `not-markdown`
      // cssExtend is an object with CSS selector as key and
      // CSS declaration block as value like writing normal CSS.
      cssExtend: {
        'code': {
          color: '#8b5cf6',
        },
        'a:hover': {
          color: '#f43f5e',
        },
        'a:visited': {
          color: '#14b8a6',
        },
      },
    }),
  ],
})

Acknowledgement

Released under the MIT License.