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Typography

Laying out your content

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Last updated 9 months ago

For demonstrative purposes, this tutorial uses an AbstractCard to make the text examples clearer. A better way to achieve the same results would be to use a .

Headings

Kirigami provides a that can be used for page or section titles.

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts
import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    title: "Kirigami Heading"
    height: 400
    width: 400

    pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.Page {
        Kirigami.AbstractCard {
            anchors.fill: parent
            contentItem: ColumnLayout {
                anchors.fill: parent
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    text: "Heading level 1"
                    level: 1
                }
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    text: "Heading level 2"
                    level: 2
                }
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    text: "Heading level 3"
                    level: 3
                }
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    text: "Heading level 4"
                    level: 4
                }
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    text: "Heading level 5"
                    level: 5
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Labels

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Controls as Controls
import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    title: "Controls Label"
    height: 400
    width: 400

    pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.Page {
        Kirigami.AbstractCard {
            anchors.fill: parent
            contentItem: Controls.Label {
                    text: "My text"
            }
        }
    }
}

Text Alignment

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts
import QtQuick.Controls as Controls
import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    title: "Controls Horizontal Center"
    height: 400
    width: 400

    pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.Page {
        Kirigami.AbstractCard {
            anchors.fill: parent
            contentItem: ColumnLayout {
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
                    text: "Welcome to my application"
                    wrapMode: Text.Wrap
                }
                Controls.Label {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
                    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante."
                    wrapMode: Text.Wrap
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts
import QtQuick.Controls as Controls
import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    title: "Horizontal Align Right"
    height: 400
    width: 400

    pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.Page {
        Kirigami.AbstractCard {
            anchors.fill: parent
            contentItem: ColumnLayout {
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignRight
                    text: "Welcome to my application"
                    wrapMode: Text.Wrap
                }
                Controls.Label {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignRight
                    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante."
                    wrapMode: Text.Wrap
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts
import QtQuick.Controls as Controls
import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    title: "Bottom and Top"
    height: 400
    width: 400

    pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.Page {
        Kirigami.AbstractCard {
            anchors.fill: parent
            contentItem: ColumnLayout {
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    Layout.fillHeight: true
                    verticalAlignment: Text.AlignBottom
                    text: "Welcome to my application"
                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                }
                Controls.Label {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    Layout.fillHeight: true
                    verticalAlignment: Text.AlignTop
                    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante."
                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts
import QtQuick.Controls as Controls
import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    title: "Top and Bottom"
    height: 400
    width: 400

    pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.Page {
        Kirigami.AbstractCard {
            anchors.fill: parent
            contentItem: ColumnLayout {
                Kirigami.Heading {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    Layout.fillHeight: true
                    verticalAlignment: Text.AlignTop
                    text: "Welcome to my application"
                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                }
                Controls.Label {
                    Layout.fillWidth: true
                    Layout.fillHeight: true
                    verticalAlignment: Text.AlignBottom
                    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante."
                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Rich Text

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts
import QtQuick.Controls as Controls
import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    title: "Controls Label with rich text"
    height: 400
    width: 400

    pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.Page {
        Kirigami.AbstractCard {
            anchors.fill: parent
            contentItem: Controls.Label {
                text: "<p><strong>List of fruits to purchase</strong></p>
                <ul>
                <li>Apple</li>
                <li>Cherry</li>
                <li>Orange</li>
                <li><del>Banana</del></li>
                </ul>
                <p>Kris already got some bananas yesterday.</p>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Theme

Text elements should use the component from QtQuick Controls 2.

You can align your text elements using the and properties.

QML allows you to display (and edit) rich text. The behavior can be controlled via the property.

The font size of the is available as Kirigami.Theme.defaultFont.pointSize in your application.

Kirigami Addons FormCard
Heading
Label
horizontalAlignment
verticalAlignment
textFormat
Kirigami.Theme
Five headings with different levels for size comparison
Heading and lorem ipsum text aligned to the horizontal center
Heading and lorem ipsum text aligned to the horizontal center
Heading and lorem ipsum text using right-aligned text
Heading with bottom vertical alignment and lorem ipsum text with top vertical alignment
Heading with top vertical alignment and lorem ipsum text with bottom vertical alignment
A Label containing a list of fruits using HTML tags like paragraph, unordered lists and bold fonts