20 Free jQuery Typography & Text Effect Plugins

In this collection, we have a selection of feature-rich jQuery typography and text effect plugins that will give you more control to precisely position and resize each letter of your web typography.

We have also added a few jQuery plugins for animating your text, some plugins for controlling responsive type, and also a bunch of unique plugins that will recreate some fantastic text effects, that can usually only be created using a graphic editor.

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.