---
template: overrides/main.html
---

# Changing the fonts

Material for MkDocs makes it easy to change the typeface of your project
documentation, as it directly integrates with [Google Fonts]. Alternatively,
fonts can be custom-loaded if self-hosting is preferred for data privacy reasons
or another destination should be used.

  [Google Fonts]: https://fonts.google.com

## Configuration

### Regular font

[:octicons-tag-24: 0.1.2][font support] ·
:octicons-milestone-24: Default: [`Roboto`][Roboto]

The regular font is used for all body copy, headlines, and essentially
everything that does not need to be monospaced. It can be set to any
valid [Google Font][Google Fonts] via `mkdocs.yml`:

``` yaml
theme:
  font:
    text: Roboto
```

The typeface will be loaded in 300, 400, _400i_ and __700__.

  [Roboto]: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto
  [font support]: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/releases/tag/0.1.2

### Monospaced font

[:octicons-tag-24: 0.1.2][font support] ·
:octicons-milestone-24: Default: [`Roboto Mono`][Roboto Mono]

The _monospaced font_ is used for code blocks and can be configured separately.
Just like the regular font, it can be set to any valid [Google Font]
[Google Fonts] via `mkdocs.yml`:

``` yaml
theme:
  font:
    code: Roboto Mono
```

The typeface will be loaded in 400.

  [Roboto Mono]: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono

### Autoloading

[:octicons-tag-24: 1.0.0][font=false support] ·
:octicons-milestone-24: Default: _none_

If you want to prevent typefaces from being loaded from [Google Fonts], e.g.
to adhere to [data privacy] regulations, and fall back to system fonts, add the
following lines to `mkdocs.yml`:

``` yaml
theme:
  font: false
```

!!! tip "Automatically bundle Google Fonts"

    The brand-new [built-in privacy] plugin makes it easy to use Google Fonts
    while complying with the __General Data Protection Regulation__ (GDPR),
    by automatically downloading and self-hosting the web font files.

  [data privacy]: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_google_fonts_api_mean_for_the_privacy_of_my_users
  [font=false support]: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/releases/tag/1.0.0
  [built-in privacy]: ensuring-data-privacy.md#built-in-privacy

## Customization

### Additional fonts

If you want to load an (additional) font from another destination or override
the system font, you can use an [additional style sheet] to add the
corresponding `@font-face` definition:

=== ":octicons-file-code-16: docs/stylesheets/extra.css"

    ``` css
    @font-face {
      font-family: "<font>";
      src: "...";
    }
    ```

=== ":octicons-file-code-16: mkdocs.yml"

    ``` yaml
    extra_css:
      - stylesheets/extra.css
    ```

The font can then be applied to specific elements, e.g. only headlines, or 
globally to be used as the site-wide regular or monospaced font:

=== "Regular font"

    ``` css
    :root {
      --md-text-font: "<font>"; /* (1)! */
    }
    ```

    1.  Always define fonts through CSS variables and not `font-family`, as
        this would disable the system font fallback.

=== "Monospaced font"

    ``` css
    :root {
      --md-code-font: "<font>";
    }
    ```

  [additional style sheet]: ../customization.md#additional-css