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How to Alter the Typography of Text	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.	03/30/2017	csharp vb	setting Typography attributes [WPF] Typography attribute [WPF], setting	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-xamlTextElementSnippets#_TextElement_TypogXAML]

The following figure shows how this example renders.

In contrast, the following figure shows how a similar example with default typographic properties renders.

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-csharpTextElementSnippets#_TextElement_Typog] [!code-vbTextElementSnippets#_TextElement_Typog]

See also

• Flow Document Overview