---
title: How to Alter the Typography of Text
description: To alter the telegraphy of text, set the telegraphy attribute. You can set the typographic property of text programmatically. You can see how altered and default telegraphy properties of text render on screen each with an example.
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
dev_langs: 
  - "csharp"
  - "vb"
helpviewer_keywords: 
  - "setting Typography attributes [WPF]"
  - "Typography attribute [WPF], setting"
ms.assetid: 19a3b49b-60a2-4c11-a786-e26b4c965588
---
# How-to: Alter the Typography of Text

The following example shows how to set the <xref:System.Windows.Documents.TextElement.Typography%2A> attribute, using <xref:System.Windows.Documents.Paragraph> as the example element.
  
## Example 1: To show how altered and default typographic properties of text render on screen

 [!code-xaml[TextElementSnippets#_TextElement_TypogXAML](~/samples/snippets/csharp/VS_Snippets_Wpf/TextElementSnippets/CSharp/Window1.xaml#_textelement_typogxaml)]
  
 The following figure shows how this example renders.
  
 ![Screenshot: Text element with altered typography](./media/textelement-typog.png "TextElement_Typog")
  
 In contrast, the following figure shows how a similar example with default typographic properties renders.
  
 ![Screenshot: Text element with default typography](./media/textelement-typog-default.png "TextElement_Typog_Default")
  
## Example 2: To show how to set typographic property of text programmatically

 The following example shows how to set the <xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBox.Typography%2A> property programmatically.
  
 [!code-csharp[TextElementSnippets#_TextElement_Typog](~/samples/snippets/csharp/VS_Snippets_Wpf/TextElementSnippets/CSharp/Window1.xaml.cs#_textelement_typog)]
 [!code-vb[TextElementSnippets#_TextElement_Typog](~/samples/snippets/visualbasic/VS_Snippets_Wpf/TextElementSnippets/visualbasic/window1.xaml.vb#_textelement_typog)]
  
## See also

- [Flow Document Overview](flow-document-overview.md)