materialize uses roboto 2.0 as a standard font. it can be overridden using the following css style.
html { font-family: gillsans, calibri, trebuchet, sans-serif; }
following are the examples of headings, blockquotes and free-flow but responsive text.
example
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>the materialize typography example</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=material+icons"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.3/css/materialize.min.css"> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.3/js/materialize.min.js"></script> </head> <body class="container"> <h2>typography demo</h2> <hr/> <h3>headings</h3> <div class="card-panel"> <h1>heading 1</h1> <h2>heading 2</h2> <h3>heading 3</h3> <h4>heading 4</h4> <h6>heading 6</h6> </div> <h3>block quotes</h3> <div class="card-panel"> <blockquote> the latest versions of apple safari, google chrome, mozilla firefox, and opera all support many html5 features and internet explorer 9.0 will also have support for some html5 functionality. </blockquote> </div> <h3>responsive free-flow text</h3> <div class="card-panel"> <p class="flow-text"> the latest versions of apple safari, google chrome, mozilla firefox, and opera all support many html5 features and internet explorer 9.0 will also have support for some html5 functionality. </p> </div> </body> </html>
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