# davatron5000/FitText.js

A jQuery plugin for inflating web type

Repository: https://github.com/davatron5000/FitText.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fittextjs
Homepage: http://fittextjs.com
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Last push: 2020-12-02T14:09:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5599, "days_push": 2100, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6713, forks 1346 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:47.983239+00:00)

## What it is
FitText.js is a jQuery plugin that makes font sizes flexible, resizing display headlines proportionally to their container's width for responsive designs. It offers a compressor setting and optional min/max font size bounds.

## Use cases
- make headlines scale fluidly in a responsive layout
- resize display text based on container width
- set min and max font sizes for responsive headlines
- achieve scalable giant display text on fluid layouts
- replace fixed font sizes with ratio-based resizing

## When to choose
- you already use jQuery in a responsive project
- you need ratio-based headline scaling with simple configuration
- you want min/max font size control for typographic hierarchy

## When to avoid
- you can use modern CSS vw units for full-width text
- your project does not use jQuery (consider non-jQuery forks)
- you need pixel-perfect text fitting (try BigText or SlabText)
- you need actively maintained software with a license

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, responsive-typography, fluid-type, headline-scaling, web-server

## Member repositories
- davatron5000/FitText.js (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:47.983239+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:42:56.015238+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/davatron5000/FitText.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:47.983239+00:00, sha 92bdca3e3935)
  - homepage: http://fittextjs.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:56.349733+00:00, sha 5fed4d4a1310)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.