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.
<!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> <h5>Heading 5</h5> <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>
Verify the result.