davidmerfield/Typeset

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Typeset is an HTML pre-processor for web typography that applies fine-printing features like hanging punctuation, optical margin alignment, small caps, ligatures, and soft hyphen insertion. It runs at build time via a Node.js API or CLI, producing static HTML and minimal CSS with no client-side JavaScript required.

Use cases

• apply hanging punctuation to my blog html
• add small caps and ligatures to web pages at build time
• improve web typography without client-side javascript
• insert soft hyphens for better line breaking
• optically align margins around quotes and punctuation
• preprocess html for fine printing typography
• typeset static html files from the command line

When to choose

• you want traditional print-quality typography on static or server-rendered HTML
• you need a build-time solution with zero client-side JavaScript
• you use Grunt or gulp and want a typography plugin
• you need output that works even in very old browsers without CSS

When to avoid

• you need dynamic client-side typography on user-generated content rendered in the browser
• your site relies on a modern JS framework and you prefer CSS-only typographic features
• you need features beyond the fixed set of typographic transformations it provides

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

templating formatter developer-tools web-development frontend web-design cli typography html-preprocessor hanging-punctuation small-caps hyphenation ligatures static-html nodejs web-server

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