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TextStyle

TextStyle properties

A style describing how to format and paint text.

baseline

The common baseline that should be aligned between this text span and its parent text span, or, for the root text spans, with the line box.

Value is of type TextBaseline.

bgcolor

Text background color.

color

Text foreground color.

decoration

The decorations to paint near the text (e.g., an underline).

Value is of type TextDecoration.

decoration_color

The color in which to paint the text decorations.

decoration_style

The style in which to paint the text decorations (e.g., dashed).

Value is of type TextDecorationStyle and defaults to TextDecorationStyle.SOLID.

decoration_thickness

The thickness of the decoration stroke as a multiplier of the thickness defined by the font.

font_family

See Text.font_family.

foreground

The paint drawn as a foreground for the text.

Value is of type Paint.

height

The height of this text span, as a multiple of the font size.

See detailed explanation here.

italic

True to use italic typeface.

letter_spacing

The amount of space (in logical pixels) to add between each letter. A negative value can be used to bring the letters closer.

overflow

How visual text overflow should be handled.

Value is of type TextOverflow.

shadow

The value of this property is a single instance or a list of BoxShadow class instances.

size

The size of glyphs (in logical pixels) to use when painting the text.

Defaults to 14.

weight

Value is of type FontWeight and defaults to FontWeight.NORMAL.

word_spacing

The amount of space (in logical pixels) to add at each sequence of white-space (i.e. between each word). A negative value can be used to bring the words closer.