Font Palettes

Define typographic roles for your project and apply them consistently across every text component.

What is a Font Palette?

A Font Palette is a ScriptableObject that defines a set of named typographic roles—think of them as CSS classes for fonts. Instead of setting font size, spacing, and color on every text object individually, you assign a role like Header, Body, or Caption and let the palette control the details.

Each role specifies:

• Font asset (TMP and/or legacy)
• Font style (Normal, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Size, letter spacing, line spacing, word spacing, and paragraph spacing
• Color

Role Properties

Property	Type	Description
Role Name	string	Unique identifier for the role (e.g. "Header", "Body").
TMP Font Asset	TMP_FontAsset	The TextMeshPro font asset used for this role.
Legacy Font	Font (optional)	Optional Unity legacy font, for UI Text components.
Font Style	FontStyles	Normal, Bold, Italic, or Bold Italic.
Font Size	float (px)	Base font size in pixels.
Character Spacing	float	Extra spacing between individual characters.
Line Spacing	float	Vertical spacing between lines of text.
Word Spacing	float	Extra spacing between words.
Paragraph Spacing	float	Extra spacing between paragraphs.
Color	Color	Default text color for this role.

Creating a Palette

There are two ways to create a new palette:

From the Assets menu

1. In Unity, go to Assets → Create → FontOps → Font Palette.
2. Name the asset and save it anywhere in your project.

From the FontOps window

1. Open FontOps and navigate to the My Fonts tab.
2. Select the Palettes sub-tab.
3. Click the NEW button in the toolbar.

Editing Roles

Select a palette to open the role editor. The left panel lists every role defined in the palette; the right panel shows the editable properties of the selected role.

1

Toolbar — select the active palette, create new palettes, or import/export/duplicate/delete

2

Preview list — click any role to select it. Each card shows a live text preview with the role's font, size, and style

3

Role editor — edit all properties of the selected role. Changes can be saved manually or with autosave enabled

Import / Export

Palettes can be shared across projects or with teammates using JSON files.

• Export: Select a palette and click Export as JSON in the toolbar. The file contains all role definitions and can be version-controlled.
• Import: Click Import JSON and select a previously exported file. A new FontPalette ScriptableObject is created in your project with all the roles from the file.

Multiple Palettes

You can create as many palettes as you need. Common use cases include:

• Default — your primary typographic system.
• Accessibility — larger sizes and higher-contrast colors for accessibility compliance.
• CJK — different font families optimized for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text.

Switch the active palette at any time using the palette dropdown in the My Fonts → Palettes toolbar. Only one palette is active at a time; the active palette is used by the compliance checker and the Apply to Scene tools.

API Reference

You can query palette data at runtime or in editor scripts through the FontPalette API.

Get a role by name

// Returns the FontRoleEntry matching the given name, or null if not found.
FontRoleEntry role = palette.GetRole("Header");

Get all TMP font assets

// Returns a list of every TMP_FontAsset referenced by the palette's roles.
List<TMP_FontAsset> fonts = palette.GetAllTmpFonts();

Get all legacy fonts

// Returns a list of every legacy Font referenced by the palette's roles.
List<Font> fonts = palette.GetAllLegacyFonts();