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Font Families

There are several pre-defined classes for setting the typeface of a page or element. It is suggested that you customize or extend this module to suit your own needs. As tachyons is a toolkit for designing performant webpages it comes with a variety of font stacks that utilize system fonts with appropriate fallbacks.

The classes serif and sans-serif default to garamond and avenir next respectively. These can be mapped to whatever your preference is.

Examples

Sans Serif (Avenir Next)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Helvetica

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Serif (Garamond)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Code (Consolas)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Bodoni

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Calisto

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Garamond

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Times

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

src/_font-families.css

/*

   FONT FAMILY GROUPS

*/

.sans-serif {
  font-family: 'avenir next', avenir,
                helvetica, 'helvetica neue',
                arial,
                sans-serif;
}

.serif {
  font-family: times, TimesNewRoman, "Times New Roman",
               georgia,
               serif;
}

/* From http://cssfontstack.com */

code, .code {
  font-family: Consolas,
               monaco,
               monospace;
}

.bodini {
  font-family: "Bodini MT",
                Didot,
               "Didot LT STD",
               "Hoefler Text",
                Garamond,
                Times,
               "Times New Roman",
                serif;
}

.calisto {
  font-family: "Calisto MT",
               "Bookman Old Style", Bookman,
               "Goudy Old Style",
                Garamond,
               "Hoefler Text",
               "Bitstream Charter",
                Georgia,
                serif;
}

.garamond {
  font-family: Garamond,
               Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face",
              "Hoefler Text",
              "Times New Roman",
               serif;
}

.times {
  font-family: Times, TimesNewRoman, "Times New Roman",
               Baskerville,
               Georgia,
               serif;
}