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Next up on SwiftUI/Compose comparison  :slightly_smiling_face: ....in SwiftUI I can apply a font to all `Text` elements within something like `HStack` as shown below. Is anything similar possible right now with Compose (or planned)?

```HStack {
    Text("some text")
    Text("some more text")
}
.font(.caption)```


Yeah, you can use Ambients (<https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/runtime/Ambient>) for that.

There are a few ambients built into Material, including text style, content color, etc

TextStyles are a little bit of an oddball in that you should use `ProvideTextStyle` instead of the usual `Providers`, so the Compose equivalent would look something like:

```ProvideTextStyle(MaterialTheme.typography.caption) {
  Column {
    Text("some text")
    Text("some more text")
  }
}```

Probably it'd be best to start with reading on what Compose has, and then ask about specific things that are missing

I do try and keep up with what's in Compose but clearly I missed a few things :slightly_smiling_face:

<https://developer.android.com/codelabs/jetpack-compose-theming#5> under "Working with Text"