Update the default fonts of your SaaS

Learn how to update the fonts of your Makerkit application

By default, Makerkit uses two fonts:

  1. font-sans: using Apple's default font on Apple devices, or Inter on others
  2. font-heading: uses Urbanist from Google Fonts

The fonts are defined at apps/web/lib/fonts.ts:

import { Urbanist as HeadingFont, Inter as SansFont } from 'next/font/google';
/**
* @sans
* @description Define here the sans font.
* By default, it uses the Inter font from Google Fonts.
*/
const sans = SansFont({
subsets: ['latin'],
variable: '--font-sans',
fallback: ['system-ui', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Helvetica', 'Arial'],
preload: true,
weight: ['300', '400', '500', '600', '700'],
});
/**
* @heading
* @description Define here the heading font.
* By default, it uses the Urbanist font from Google Fonts.
*/
const heading = HeadingFont({
subsets: ['latin'],
variable: '--font-heading',
fallback: ['system-ui', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Helvetica', 'Arial'],
preload: true,
weight: ['500', '700'],
});
// we export these fonts into the root layout
export { sans, heading };

To display a different font, please replace the imports from next/font/google if the font is there.

Removing Apple's system as default font on Apple Devices

To set another font instead of Apple's system font, update the Tailwind configuration.

Open tooling/tailwind/index.ts and replace the line:

sans: ['-apple-system', 'var(--font-sans)', ...fontFamily.sans],

to

sans: ['var(--font-sans)', ...fontFamily.sans],