20 Free jQuery Typography & Text Effect Plugins

This collection includes a diverse range of feature-rich jQuery typography and text effect plugins designed to help you take your web typography to the next level. With these plugins, you can gain greater control over the positioning and resizing of each letter, enabling you to create unique and visually stunning typography.

In addition to typography control, the collection also features several jQuery plugins for animating your text, controlling responsive type, and recreating some fantastic text effects that are typically only achievable using motion editors.

Whether you’re looking to add subtle typography effects or create complex text animations, these plugins provide a wide range of options to help you achieve your design goals. With their intuitive interfaces and robust feature sets, these jQuery plugins are valuable resources for developers and designers looking to enhance the visual appeal of their web typography.

FlowType.JS

FlowType.js lets you configure font-size and line-height ratios of your typography, helping you improve their overall appeal. You can also specify maximum and minimum width thresholds to control FlowType.js.

Squishy

Squishy is a useful plugin that will automatically resize your text to fit precisely into the container (with no extra work on your part). It comes with a series of options so that you can control the “squishiness”: maxSize, minSize, maxWidth, and minWidth.

slabText

slabText is a plugin that will help you create those big, bold, and responsive headlines that are very popular at the moment. The script splits your headlines into rows and then resizes each row to fill the available horizontal space.

FitText

Similar in functionality to Squishy above, FitText will allow you to have scalable headlines on your responsive layout that will fill the width of the parent element.

TypeButter

TypeButter allows you to set optical kerning for any font on your website. It comes packaged with Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Times, and Verdana, but if you need another font, you can add your own.

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Animated Typography Plugins

Textillate.js

Textillate.js is a fantastic plugin for applying amazing CSS3 animations to any block of text. You will also need lettering.js and animate.css to use this plugin.

funnyText.js

funnyText.js is a plugin that will allow you to create “funny and crazy moving” typography very quickly.

Lettering.js

Lettering.js, similar in functionality to funnyText.js above, is a jQuery plugin that gives you complete down-to-the-letter control of your web type.

Jumble

Jumble is a plugin that will animate and “jumble” up the colors of your text headers. Choose a color range and set parameters for whether the shuffle is based on brightness or saturation hue.

Wrapping Text Plugins

CircleType.js

CircleType.js is a plugin for setting type around a circle.

jQSlickWrap

jQSlickWrap is a plugin that allows you to quickly and accurately wrap your text around the content of floated images.

Text Effects Plugins

No Vacancy

The simple novacancy.js plugin will give your text a fantastic text neon golden effect.

Flipping Text

Antiquify.js

This unique plugin will ‘antiquify’ your text. Randomly applied aberrations make text look like it came straight off an old, antique printing press.

…and finally…

jQuery Typography Troll

Typography Troll offers an easy way to confuse readers who try to distinguish which of several similar fonts you’re using (like Helvetica and Arial) by randomly assigning a font family to each character in the selected text.