7 Best Typography Plugins for WordPress
Typography plays a crucial role in your website design, which is why you need to be extra thorough when choosing the right font for your online presence. Aside from being able to improve the user experience and your website’s readability as a whole, fonts can also add an artistic stamp to everything you put up online and help shape up the way people see your brand.
Considering everything we mentioned above, the process of choosing the right typography can be tricky, regardless if you are set on adding some custom WordPress fonts to your site or if you want to use some of the best Google font combinations. Luckily, there are many WordPress typography plugins that can help you out, which is why we decided to share some of the best ones in this category.
Many of the premium WordPress themes already come packed with Google fonts and allow you to easily change the typography of your website. However, if you want a wider range of options that allow you to not only add beautiful fonts but also make specific stylistic changes that will further enhance your typography, we do recommend that you try out some of the plugins from our list:
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Easily one of the most widely used WordPress typography plugins around, Use Any Font comes with the option to upload self-hosted custom fonts you want provided you have the desired font format (ttf, otf, or woff) and you can use them without any limitations. With Use Any Font, you don’t have to deal with multiple font formats or manually set them up. The interface is streamlined and simple, with predefined and custom elements that allow you to assign fonts to any element. Font upload is quick and the plugin supports all browsers and devices. What’s also great about this plugin is that it is compatible with most major WordPress page builders as well as with a huge number of themes.
Here is another popular typography plugin with over 100,000 downloads at WordPress.org. Google Fonts Typography allows you to use any of the 900+ fonts that are available in the Google font library. If you want, you can use more than one font from the list – for example, you can choose one font for your headings, and another one for the rest of your content.
Additionally, the Google Fonts Typography plugin comes with features such as live customizer preview (which allows you to choose and preview your fonts in real time), and you also have access to typography settings such as font size, color, weight, and line height.
Styleguide is a useful plugin that lets you edit fonts and colors in the WordPress Customizer, which gives you the ability to preview the way your typography will look before you save your settings. The plugin contains a carefully picked selection of some of the best Google fonts (45 in total) and allows you to filter fonts based on the character set, which can be particularly convenient for non-Latin languages. You also get support for all default WordPress themes and character sets like Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, and so on.
Previously known as TinyMCE Advanced, the Advanced Editor Tools plugin lets you set some smaller, but no less important font traits, like font size, font family, background colors, etc. Also, you get to add, remove, and/or arrange the buttons shown on the Visual Editor toolbar (in the Classic Paragraph and Classic blocks in the Gutenberg block editor). The plugin is also compatible with the Classic editor and allows you to add the CSS classes from the theme’s editor-style.css.
WP-Typography is a rather practical plugin that can enrich your typography with hyphenation, based on pattern libraries for over 70 languages. It comes with some useful features like space control, intelligent character replacement, and smart handling of quote marks, ellipses, trademarks, dashes, and so on. Moreover, it will let you use CSS hooks for some additional styling of elements like uppercase words and numbers.
Regardless if you prefer to have lots of large typography present in your web design or you’d rather use smaller-sized fonts instead, this plugin can prove to be quite useful both for you and your visitors. Namely, Zeno Font Resizer is a simple and lightweight plugin that lets the visitors determine the font size of your web page according to their own preferences in their web browser (the settings will be saved in a cookie). They can either increase or decrease the font size and then see the same size every time they visit your website. In other words, you get to keep the desired font aesthetic on your site while still giving the chance to your visitors to have a personalized experience when viewing your web page. The plugin allows you to determine the content which can be resized, and you can add it to your page either with a code or using a widget.
Aligning quotes with the rest of your content can be tricky, which is why the Perfect Pullquotes plugin may come in handy if you wish to use quotes in this way on your site. You can add left-aligned, right-aligned, or full-width pull quotes. Also, you can use a shortcode that you can add manually or by selecting text in the text editor and then choosing your preferred option with the help of the Pullquote dropdown.
Wrapping Up
Your choice of typography can largely affect the way people perceive your brand, which is why you should be extra careful with this aspect during the design process of your WordPress website. Still, no matter if you decide to go with an elegant font aesthetic, or if you want to try out a somewhat adventurous approach and incorporate more experimental typefaces into your design, you won’t go wrong with using any of the WordPress typography plugins on this list. From tools that give you full access to Google Fonts library and styling editors to those that will help you resize your fonts, all these plugins will help you enhance the beauty, practicality, and user-friendliness of your website’s typography.
