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Font family

The font family class sets the font-family property. It controls the typeface of a text element.

In most cases you do not need to use this class. Body text and heading elements are styled to match GCDS by default. Use semantic HTML tags , like h1, h2 whenever possible.

Overview

CSS Shortcut class Applied style 
font-family-heading
 
font-family: var(--gcds-font-families-heading);
 
font-family-body
 
font-family: var(--gcds-font-families-body);
 
font-family-monospace
 
font-family: var(--gcds-font-families-monospace);

Examples

Heading
font-family-heading

This element uses the heading font family.

<h4 class="font-family-heading">
  This element uses the heading font family.
</h4>

Body
font-family-body

This element uses the body font family.

<p class="font-family-body">
  This element uses the body font family.
</p>

Monospace
font-family-monospace

This element uses the monospace font family.
<code class="font-family-monospace">
  This element uses the  monospace font family.
</code>

Conditional styling Apply this style to specific screen sizes Use a responsive layout prefix to apply this class only to a specified screen size. The available breakpoints are:

  • xs: > 480px
  • sm: > 640px
  • md: > 768px
  • lg: > 1024px
  • xl: > 1280px
  
<div class="xs:font-family-body ...">
  ...
</div>

Learn more about the responsive layout prefix.

2026-02-12