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Contribute expressive type styles usage on "Typography" page

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With new the expressive type styles added to Carbon, we still need to provide guidance on when they should be used.
New guidance should resolve “When to use expressive vs productive?” question.
Content could live between Carbon “Typography” page & Dotcom Type pairing

Draft PR: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon-website/pull/2410

Issue in Carbon repo for dev work to create type set table: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon/issues/8934

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

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oliviaflorycommented, Jun 28, 2021

Update to all images on G20 background, and adjustments to mega menu & filter panel outline

Also just remembered the live Products page is still using Expressive type styles for the filter panel 🙈 I will update with a mock UI I have

3:2_928_ui_full productive-moment-2

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janchildcommented, Jul 21, 2021

The guidance has been completed and the tables updated by the Carbon dev, Scott Strubberg. Guidance is ready for publishing and can be previewed here: https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon-website/pull/2410

The project is moving into the implementation phase now, covered by #6696.

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