10 Best JavaScript Plugins For Responsive Text (2023 Update)
When you're developing a cross-platform website or web app, you need to manipulate the font size of your text on different screen sizes.
In some cases, your text appears to be the right size on the web but may appear too small on small screens like mobile devices.
In order to ensure the visual consistency of the font size on the mobile and web, you might need a responsive text plugin to adjust the text size according to the screen size.
Here is a list of 10 best jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript solutions that automatically enlarge and reduce the text size to fit their content.
Feel free to download & use them in your next responsive web design project to make the text fully responsive and fluid on any screen size. Have fun with it.
Originally Published Sep 16 2020, updated May 11 2023
Table of contents:
Best jQuery Responsive Text Plugins
SlabText - Responsive Text Plugin For jQuery
A jQuery Plugin that makes it easy to produce Bold, Big, Attractive, and Responsive Text effects.
jQuery Plugin For Auto Resizing Text - textfill
An useful jQuery text plugin that automatically resizes your text within a container to make the font size of the text as big as possible. You can also set the minimal or maximum font size of the text to fit your need.
jQuery Responsive Text Plugin - Responsive Text
Responsive Text is a jQuery plugin that automatically resize & scale the text to fit its' container width.
Responsive Performant jQuery Text Resizing Plugin - FancyTextFill
A responsive and high-performance jQuery text resizing plugin that automatically increases and shrinks the font size of your text to fit its container.
Dynamically Resize Text Size To Fit Container Size - jQuery Bigtext Plugin
A jQuery text plugin that automatically enlarge the font size of your text to fill its parent container, without overflowing the container Div..
Best vanilla JS Responsive Text Plugins
Minimal Text Resizing JavaScript Library – fitty
A small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that dynamically scales the text to fill its parent container.
Flexible & Responsive Curving Text - CircleType.js
A smart and lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to arrange each letter of your text along a curved path based on Lettering.js.
Resize Text Fonts Based On The Screen Width – font-master
Just another text resize library written in pure JavaScript that dynamically scales font sizes of your text to fit the parent container.
Responsive & Flexible Text with FluidFont.js
A standalone JS library which makes the font size of your text as large as possible to fit within the container’s width. Great for responsive web layout.
Small JavaScript Library For Text Auto Resizing – textFit
A standalone JavaScript library that automatically and dynamically scales text to fit inside a fixed width container. Supports both single or multi-line text.
More Resources:
Looking for more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create responsive text on the web & mobile? See jQuery Responsive Text and JavaScript Responsive Text sections for more details.
