Viget Inspire

Once a month, two designers at Viget put together a presentation for the rest of the design team. Sometimes it's on finding inspiration, sometimes it's on new ideas or initiatives, and sometimes it's just a fun little knowledge-sharing presentation.

The following is one of the latter: A simple presentation I put together with some jQuery plugins to demonstrate the various ways jQuery can interact with type on the web.

You can view it here (click the headers to advance slides).

Topics Covered

• Keeping a vertical rhythm
• Removing "widows"
• Ampersands, ligatures & special characters
• Typographic animations
• Font detection

Plugins & Links

• Filipe Fortes - Lineheight Fix
• Dave Cardwell - Widon't
• Justin Hileman - Regular Expression Replacement
• Karl Swedberg (my hero) - Fancy Letter plugin
• jQuery UI
• Remy Sharp - Font Detection