# Typography Theming
Material Design typography theming can be used to create typographic styles that
reflect your brand or style by defining a set of type scales which will be used
throughout your app. Material components use these type scales to style their
individual text appearance.
## Design & API Documentation
- [Material Design guidelines:
Typography](https://material.io/go/design-typography/)
## Usage
Attribute name | Default style
------------------------- | ---------------------
`textAppearanceHeadline1` | Light 96sp
`textAppearanceHeadline2` | Light 60sp
`textAppearanceHeadline3` | Regular 48sp
`textAppearanceHeadline4` | Regular 34sp
`textAppearanceHeadline5` | Regular 24sp
`textAppearanceHeadline6` | Medium 20sp
`textAppearanceSubtitle1` | Regular 16sp
`textAppearanceSubtitle2` | Medium 14sp
`textAppearanceBody1` | Regular 16sp
`textAppearanceBody2` | Regular 14sp
`textAppearanceCaption` | Regular 12sp
`textAppearanceButton` | Medium all caps 14sp
`textAppearanceOverline` | Regular all caps 10sp
## Style values
Style values are a combination of the following:
* Font face name and weight
* Font size
* Letter spacing
* Text transformation (e.g., all caps)
## Customization
The components included in the Material Design Library reference these themeable
text attributes, enabling you to easily change text appearance across your whole
application. If you display text in `TextView`s or create custom components,
consider referencing one of these text attributes where it makes sense.
You can change the look of any text style by creating a new style and setting it
in your theme:
```xml
```
```xml
```
Note: `AppCompat` must be used to handle backwards compatibility for sdk < 16.
If you don't need to support devices < 16 and aren't using AppCompat, you
should set `android:fontFamily` instead of `fontFamily` or `app:fontFamily`.
## Downloadable Fonts
Android O and Android Support Library 26 add support for [Downloadable
Fonts](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/downloadable-fonts.html).
This allows you to easily use the entire Google Fonts Open Source collection
without bundling a font with your apk. Find more information at
https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/android.
Note: If you want to use a Downloadable Font before Android O, make sure you are
using `AppCompatTextView` or that you are loading the font yourself with
`ResourcesCompat.getFont()`.