If you’re looking for a little more control over the typography within your Word Press blog, sometimes a simple plug in can provide the resource that you’re after. There are plug ins for adding drop caps, attractive pull quotes and even for adding just about any font that you can think of. While we recommend making typography changes on your own via CSS and hand-coding, there are times when a plug in just makes life a little easier. In this roundup we have hunted down 10 Word Press Plug ins For Enhancing Typography.
WP-Typography
The WP-Typography plugin gives you a number of different options for changing up the typography within your WordPress blog. You’re given control over hyphenation, spacing, intelligent character replacement, CSS hooks for styling and much more.
wp-typography
Drop Caps
The Drop Caps plugin adds mark-up to your posts and pages allowing you to create and implement attractive drop caps to the beginning of paragraphs. You can choose which pages to put drop caps on and even exclude specific posts and categories.
drop caps
Simple Pull Quote
The Simple Pull Quote WordPress plugin provides an easy way for you to insert pull quotes into your posts. You can stick with the default styling or simply edit the CSS file included with the installation.
simple pull quote
FD Footnotes Plugin
This plugin provides an extremely easy way to add elegant looking footnotes to your posts. The syntax is natural, simple to understand, and degrades gracefully if the plugin is removed. Footnotes are linked unobtrusively and the note itself links back to the original text where the footnote is referenced.
fd footnotes
Font Burner Control Panel
The Font Burner Control Panel plugin allows you to easily add any of the 1000+ free fonts available on the Font Burner website to your WordPress theme. Simply find a font you like and type it’s name into this plugin and your headlines will instantly be transformed. You have control over size and color of the text as well.
font burner control panel
Font-Resizer
This plugin allows you to give the visitors of your site the option to change the font size. The plugin acts over jQuery and saves the settings in a cookie, so the visitor sees the same font size if they revisit your site. Which content is going to be resized, the resize steps and other options can be set on the admin page.
font-resizer
Typekit Plugin
This is a convenient way for WordPress users to use the Typekit font service in WordPress web sites. This will enable users to change the fonts of their sites with the least amount of time using the Typekit service. Further, this plugin will give the ability to control where the typekit will be used within the site (whether in the front page, static pages .etc).
typekit plugin
WP Super Edit
WP Super Edit is designed to get control of the WordPress WYSIWYG visual editor and add some functionality with more buttons and customized TinyMCE plugins. It includes a drag and drop interface for adding features such as tables, layers (div tag), advanced XHTML properties, advanced imaged and link properties, WordPress emoticons, style attributes and much more.
wp super edit
PS Disable Auto Formatting
PS Disable Auto Formatting stops automatic formatting of WordPress (wpautop), and modifies the HTML source generated by the visual editor. It prevents WordPress form stripping out tags such as <br> and <p> in the HTML editor, something that WP has been notoriously known for.
ps disable auto formatting
AnyFont
AnyFont allows you to use any truetype or opentype font for post titles, menu items or anywhere else you want to use a custom font in your theme design. Some features include font manager for easily uploading new fonts, font shadow options with style manager, tinymce button for quick and easy insertion, cache management and image replacements are SEO compatible.
anyfont
