# jschr/textillate

A jquery plugin for CSS3 text animations.

Repository: https://github.com/jschr/textillate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/textillate
Homepage: http://textillate.js.org
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: css-animations, javascript, jquery, text, textillate
Last push: 2021-08-04T07:49:57+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": 4968, "days_push": 1855, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3656, forks 742 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:13.173274+00:00)

## What it is
Textillate.js is a jQuery plugin that applies CSS3 animations to text, built on top of animate.css and Lettering.js. It supports per-character animation effects with configurable in/out sequences, delays, shuffling, and looping.

## Use cases
- animate text on a webpage with css3 effects
- create animated headlines for a landing page
- cycle through rotating text messages with fade effects
- add per-character entrance animations to titles
- build animated text sliders with jquery

## When to choose
- you already use jQuery and want quick text animation effects
- you want configurable per-character animations without writing CSS keyframes
- you need rotating animated text lists with in/out effects

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern framework app (React/Vue) without jQuery
- you need complex timeline-based animations rather than simple text effects
- you want a dependency-free lightweight animation solution

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, css3-animations, text-effects, animate-css, lettering-js, javascript

## Member repositories
- jschr/textillate (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.173274+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 2026-08-29T18:31:38.099224+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jschr/textillate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.173274+00:00, sha ca2e32193646)
  - homepage: http://textillate.js.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:26:02.424384+00:00, sha 49496d8cfc3f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.