Change default font in vuetify

Question

I can't figure out how to change the default font in vuetify. I've been looking for the right variable within ./node_modules/vuetify, but I can't locate it.

I'd ideally not make any changes in the module, but would rather override such variables from outside the module.

Answer 1

Best way

Define (if you use google fonts)

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css? family=Oxygen:300,400,700&display=swap');
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css? family=Comfortaa&display=swap');

$body-font-family: 'Oxygen';
$title-font: 'Comfortaa';

For vuetify 2+

.v-application {
   font-family: $body-font-family, sans-serif !important;
    .title { // To pin point specific classes of some components
       font-family: $title-font, sans-serif !important;
    }
 }

In app.vue or a separate scss/css file imported directly into app.vue

For vuetify 1.5.x In your app.vue script add

.application {
  font-family: "Font Family Name";
}
.headline,
.title,
.subheading{
     font-family: $body-font-family !important;
}

For example, if you are using a google font, your script tag should look like

<style lang="scss">
@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Questrial");

.application {
  font-family: "Questrial";
}
</style>

Update 2021

In your main.scss file,

$font-family:'Ubuntu'

.v-application {
  [class*='text-'] {
    color: #36405a;
    font-family: $font-family, sans-serif !important;
  }
  font-family: $font-family, sans-serif !important;
}

Answer 2

The easiest way would be to simply set the font-family on body. If you are using webpack and importing the Vuetify stylus entry, main.styl, you can simply overwrite the $font-family variable with whatever font you want.

Answer 3

What worked for me using Nuxt.js with Vuetify Module was simply setting the body font in variables.scss, like this:

$body-font-family: SofiaPro, Roboto;

All other fonts are derived from this one.

Default variables file ('~vuetify/src/styles/styles.sass') is imported automatically afterwards and ignores a variable if it was already set (thanks to !default). Therefore there's no need to change $heading-font-family and individual $headings anymore.

For this to work with Nuxt module, do not forget to set treeShake: true in nuxt.config.js file. If you are not using Nuxt.js, then probably you need to import the variables file after setting the body font.

Here's an example of my nuxt.config.js file fragment:

buildModules: [
  '@nuxtjs/vuetify'
],

vuetify: {
  treeShake: true,
  customVariables: ['~/assets/variables.scss'],
  ... other Vuetify options
}

Where viariables.scss contains the above font definition.

I wrote a short article explaining this subject, containing a complete code example: https://medium.com/@jareklipski/changing-default-font-in-vuetify-js-and-nuxt-js-3894e726ff10

Answer 4

I have noticed that, at least in recent versions of Vuetify, you need to specify both $body-font-family and $heading-font-family to change the fonts of everything from Roboto to something else in your overrides (following these instructions). The redefinition of $headings seems to be necessary since it is defined in _variables.styl and depends on $heading-font-family. Note that Vuetify will be moving to SCSS in 2.0 so there will be a new process at that point.

$body-font-family = 'Barlow Condensed', sans-serif
$heading-font-family = 'Barlow Condensed', sans-serif
$headings = {
  h1: { size: 112px, weight: 300, line-height: 1, letter-spacing: -.04em, font-family: $heading-font-family },
  h2: { size: 56px, weight: 400, line-height: 1.35, letter-spacing: -.02em, font-family: $heading-font-family },
  h3: { size: 45px, weight: 400, line-height: 48px, letter-spacing: normal, font-family: $heading-font-family },
  h4: { size: 34px, weight: 400, line-height: 40px, letter-spacing: normal, font-family: $heading-font-family },
  h5: { size: 24px, weight: 400, line-height: 32px, letter-spacing: normal, font-family: $heading-font-family },
  h6: { size: 20px, weight: 500, line-height: 1, letter-spacing: .02em, font-family: $heading-font-family },
  subheading: { size: 16px, weight: 400 },
  body-2: { size: 14px, weight: 500 },
  body-1: { size: 14px, weight: 400 },
  caption: { size: 12px, weight: 400 },
  button: { size: 14px, weight: 500 }
}

Answer 5

So vuetify provides a very simple solution.

In your src directory create a sass, scss, or styles directory and then create a file named variables.scss or variables.sass in it.

When you run yarn serve or npm run serve, vuetify will automatically hoist the global Vuetify variables to all of your sass/scss files.

Example - src/scss/variables.scss

Below code will change the default body font

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2family=Poppins:wght@400;700&display=swap');
$body-font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;

You can change a lot more stuff in there and can change webpack settings if above doesn't work for you directly - check this link

Hope it helps!

Answer 6

I cannot guarantee that this is "best practice". But considering that there is no documentation on how to do this properly I am going to tell you how I accomplished this.

I am using the Nuxt webpack template so my file structure may be a bit different than yours but the concept is the same.

I have a static assets folder. Within that folder I have a global css file. I downloaded the font I was using as a file and added it to my static directory as well. But you could put it pretty much anywhere.

Here is the code that I added to my global CSS file:

@font-face{
            font-family: **any name you want to give the font**;
            src: url(**location in directory**) format("opentype");
            }

Then you just add it to you styling rules as you normally would

    *{
    font-family: **the same name you gave it above**;
 }
   h1{
    font-family: **the same name you gave it above**;
 }

ect...

Remember to enter the correct format. If your file downloads as a .otf it is opentype. If it is .ttf it is truetype.

I have not yet figured out how to include a font from CDN. If I do figure that out I will let you know.

Answer 7

For Laravel Vuetify users, this all you need: Update your webpack.min.js file to look like:

const mix = require('laravel-mix');

mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')
   .sass('resources/sass/main.scss', 'public/css')
   .stylus('resources/stylus/main.styl', 'public/css');

Your main.styl should be located in the path: resources\stylus\main.styl Your main.styl file should look like this:

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Literata:400,500,600,700&display=swap");

$body-font-family = 'Literata', serif
$alert-font-size = 18px

@import '~vuetify/src/stylus/main'
// For a-la-carte
@import '~vuetify/src/stylus/app'

To prevent Vuetify from writing inline styles that could override your main.css, do:

 mix.options({
      extractVueStyles: true, // Extract .vue component styling to file, rather than inline.
      });

And finally, ensure stylus-loader is setup already, if not run in command line:

$ yarn add stylus stylus-loader style-loader css-loader -D
// OR
$ npm i stylus stylus-loader style-loader css-loader --save-dev

You can also npm install material-design-icons-iconfont.

npm install material-design-icons-iconfont --save

Answer 8

This solution work on Vue-CLI>=3

First of all you must install sass-loader

npm install sass sass-loader fibers deepmerge -D

You should first create "sass" folder in the "src" directory, then create a "variables.scss" file in this directory.

Then write the below code in this file.

$ body-font-family: Your-FontName
@import '~vuetify/src/styles/settings/_variables.scss';

You need to restart your project now.

Answer 9

Install your font via CDN/npm. Then just override this variable by adding this line in ./src/styles/variables.scss

//Change default font to 'Inter'
$body-font-family: "Inter" !important;

A short and simple approach.

Answer 10

If you are using Vuetify 2+, the process will be very similar to jeffbaumes's answer but using Sass instead of Stylus

// src/sass/main.scss
@import '~vuetify/src/styles/styles.sass';

$body-font-family: 'My Custom Font', cursive;

$heading-font-family: $body-font-family, cursive;

@each $heading, $style in $headings {
    $headings: map-merge($headings, ($heading: map-merge($style, ('font-family': $heading-font-family))));
}

Or you can change the fonts of some heading styles and not others like this:

$headings: map-merge($headings, ('h3': ('font-family': 'Custom Font Name')));

Answer 11

Unfortunately, @alice-mx answer didn't work for me (couldn't import from node_modules).

This is how I solved this problem in my code (using Vuetify 2):

---

After downloading the wanted .woff2 file and put it in src/assets/fonts, I added this code to my App.vue file (or whichever main vue file you set in your project):

// App.vue
<style>
$typoOptions: display-4 display-3 display-2 display-1 headline title subtitle-1 subtitle-2 body-1 body-2 caption overline; // all md typography options provided by vuetify

%font-choice {
  font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif !important;
}

@mixin md-typography {
@each $typoOption in $typoOptions {
  .#{$typoOption} {
    @extend %font-choice;
  }
}

.v-application { // This is where we'll add all the md-typography classes
  font-size: 12px;
  @extend %font-choice;
  @include md-typography;
}

// add font-face because in this case Noto-Sans is taken from Google fonts
@font-face {
  font-family: "Noto Sans";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: local("Noto Sans"), local("NotoSans"),
    url("~@/assets/fonts/noto-sans-v9-latin-regular.woff2") format("woff2");
}
</style>

I hope this will help!

This answer helped me to form the .scss code

Answer 12

My solution in (latest) Nuxt:

nuxt.config:

head: {
.......
link: [
  {rel: 'icon', type: 'image/x-icon', href: '/favicon.ico'},
  {
    rel: 'stylesheet',
    href:'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:400|Roboto+Slab:200&display=swap'
  }
]
},

vuetify: {
treeShake: true,
customVariables: ['~/assets/variables.scss'],

theme: {
  .....
  },
}
},

variables.scss

$body-font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;
$heading-font-family: Roboto Slab, serif;

@import '~vuetify/src/styles/styles.sass';

Answer 13

I tried everything nothing was working in my case, but the below solution will definitely work though not the best solution

Add the below scss in your variables.scss

$body-font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif;

.v-application {
  .text-h1,
  .text-h2,
  .text-h3,
  .text-h4,
  .text-h5,
  .text-h6,
  .text-headline,
  .text-title,
  .text-subtitle-1,
  .text-subtitle-2,
  .text-body-1,
  .text-body-2,
  .text-button,
  .text-caption,
  .text-overline {
    font-family: $body-font-family !important;
  }
}

Answer 14

I'm using webpack and the only way I could make it work was:

// webpack.config.js

...
{
  test: /\.sass$/,
  use: [
    {
      loader: 'sass-loader',
      // Vuetify
      // Requires sass-loader@^9.0.0
      options: {
        implementation: sass,
        sassOptions: { fiber: fibers },
        additionalData: "@import '~/src/styles/variables.scss'",
      }
    }
  ]
}
...

// src/styles/variables.scss

@import "~vuetify/src/styles/settings/_variables.scss";

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fredoka+One&display=swap');
$body-font-family: 'Fredoka One', cursive;
$heading-font-family: $body-font-family;
$headings: (
    'h1': (
        'font-family': $heading-font-family,
    ),
    'h2': (
        'font-family': $heading-font-family,
    ),
    'h3': (
        'font-family': $heading-font-family,
    ),
    'h4': (
        'font-family': $heading-font-family,
    ),
    'h5': (
        'font-family': $heading-font-family,
    ),
    'h6': (
        'font-family': $heading-font-family,
    ),
);

Answer 15

Vuetify v2.4.11

Vue v2.6.12

1. To configure a custom font in Vuetify you need to include this CSS in your App.vue component.

<style lang="scss">
  @import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=New+Tegomin&display=swap');
  $font-family: 'New Tegomin', serif;
  .my-application {
    .headline,
    [class*='display-'],
    [class*='text-'] {
      color: #36405a;
      font-family: $font-family, sans-serif !important;
    }
    font-family: $font-family, sans-serif !important;
  }
</style>

2. Put a specific class in your node, something like that:

<v-app class="my-application">

This second point is important because all the font styles from Vuetify have !important and if you want to overwrite, you need to put an extra class...

I hope that this tip helps everyone!

Answer 16

How I achieved it: (Vuetify 2+)

1) Into your index.html, import your fonts.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<%= BASE_URL %>fonts/<MY_CUSTOM_FONT>/fontface.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Literata:100,300,400,500,700,900">

2) Inside /src, create a styles directory and a file named variables.scss inside it

3) In that file, override some variables values:

// Globals
$body-font-family: 'MY_CUSTOM_FONT'; // Used on content
$heading-font-family: 'Literata';    // Used on helpers classes

Hope it helps someone.

References:
https://github.com/vuetifyjs/vuetify/issues/8169
https://vuetifyjs.com/en/customization/sass-variables#example-variable-file

Answer 17

it is a late reply but , You can add in common scss/sass/less file (which is called in App.vue or you main App file) it will implement it all over the application

.body,
.v-application{
    font-family: 'Antic', sans-serif;
}

Answer 18

For vue 3 with vite and vuetify 3.0.6 generated by yarn create vuetify

based on @arora answer and official docs

1. Run npm install -D sass
2. In src/plugins/vuetify.js replace import 'vuetify/styles with import '../assets/main.scss' as stated here
3. Create main.scss file in assets folder as stated

@use 'vuetify' with (
  $utilities: false,
  $color-pack: false,
  $body-font-family: 'Assistant'
 );

4. I had to set utilities: yes to resolve some style issues (Do not use true).

Answer 19

I've run into the same problem in February 2023. This is an answer that works specifically on Vuetify 3 inside Nuxt 3. Here is a very simple way:

1. Go to get the source of your fonts. eg. Google font.
2. Input those fonts link in your nuxt.config:

 head: {
      link: [
        {
          rel: 'stylesheet',
          href: 'https://your-font-source.com'
        },
      ]
 },

3. Apply the font-family to the html selector inside one of the Vue Components as a none scoped style:

<style>
  html {
    font-family: 'Your font name';
  }
</style>

If there's no override font specifically set in the components this font will be used throughout the app.

Answer 20

There is a much easier and proper way than all of the methods above. Add

treeShake: true,
defaultAssets: {
  font: {
    family: 'Poppins'
  }
}

to the vuetify object in nuxt.config.js. This should properly enable your font family throughout the application.(see defaultAssets documentation for more details and note that the treeShake option is required)

Answer 21

Extra helpful thing:

• when changing font from Roboto to any other font, by default vuetify will still import the cdn Roboto fonts file (url) in the "head" tag. To avoid that extra thing use the "defaultAssets: false" option under vuetify settings.

EDITED
That thing only works within NUXTJS, thanks to @nlavr for pointing it out