Styling text using Tailwind utility classes

Tailwind is a CSS framework that comes with a number of valuable classes by default. It enables us to compose and add classes as necessary.

Tailwind makes it easy to build our own design, unlike other CSS frameworks. It doesn’t dictate a certain appearance or design.

What are Tailwind utility classes?

Tailwind utility classes are varieties of ready-made UI. It provides a wide array of needs that allows you to build responsive web pages. It makes work easier as we only need to write a few codes to make a responsive website.

Text utility classes

With Tailwind, we can create personalized designs without coding CSS. This is done by applying pre-existing classes directly to our HTML.

Tailwind has many texts or typographical utility classes, which include:

• Font-size classes
• Font-family classes
• Font-style classes
• Letter spacing
• Text align
• Vertical align
• World break
• White space and many more

Note: if you don’t know how to set up a Tailwind development environment, Check here.

Code example

Let’s say we want a paragraph on the website to have the following styles:

1. font-size of 14px
2. font-style of italic
3. font-weight of 500

Our p element will look like the following: