Display text

Mapping to the Text component

Small

Example
- <DisplayText size="small">Sales this year</DisplayText>
+ <Text variant="headingLg" as="p">Sales this year</Text>

Medium

Example
- <DisplayText size="medium">Sales this year</DisplayText>
+ <Text variant="headingXl" as="p">Sales this year</Text>

Large

Example
- <DisplayText size="large">Sales this year</DisplayText>
+ <Text variant="heading2xl" as="p">Sales this year</Text>

Extra large

Example
- <DisplayText size="extraLarge">Sales this year</DisplayText>
+ <Text variant="heading4xl" as="p">Sales this year</Text>

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Best practices

• Use when the primary goal of the page is communication rather than interaction.
• Use larger display text sizes when a page is focused around a single message. In these cases it may be paired with an illustration.
• Use smaller display text to pair with larger text, or alone as part of more complex data displays such as dashboards.

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Content guidelines

Display text

Display text should be:

• Benefits-driven and focused on information that is most important to merchants
• Concise and scannable:
  • Use simple, clear language that can be read at a glance
  • Keep display text content to a short sentence that’s just a few words in length
  • Avoid using punctuation such as periods, commas, or semicolons
  • Avoid using exclamation marks—display text already makes enough of a statement without an exclamation mark
  • Write in sentence case

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Accessibility

Although display text creates an interesting visual experience, it doesn’t replace the semantic structure provided by HTML headings.

By default, the display text component outputs text in an HTML paragraph (<p>). If a heading tag is needed for display text, use the element prop to set the heading level.