---
layout: meetup
title: Lettering.js — A jQuery Plugin for Radical Web Typography
author: jmccann
when: 2011-02-15T19:30:00-06:00
video: https://vimeo.com/20214958
speakers:
  - name: Dave Rupert
    title:
    avatar: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/477460555981025280/JUGkf8zv_400x400.jpeg
    bio: Dave Rupert is lead developer and 1/3rd of [Paravel](http://paravelinc.com). He is also the host of the [ATX Web Show](http://atxwebshow.com), a not-so-weekly podcast all about the local web design and development scene here in Austin, TX.
    email:
    homepage:
    twitter: davatron5000
    github:
    linkedin:
sponsor:
venue: frog
after: gingerman
organizers:
  - jmccann
---

This month's meetup we take a step away from the traditionally hardcore, engineering-focused styles talks and presentations and decide to focus back on the user interface and beautifying the web, specifically typography. Neighborhood superstar, Rails aficionado and iOS contemporary [Dave Rupert][1] will be discussing and showcasing, [Lettering.js][2].

Web type is exploding all over the web but CSS currently doesn't offer complete down-to-the-letter control. While working on the [Lost World's Fairs][3] project for Microsoft and the launch of IE9 Beta, Dave Rupert and team needed that level of control. Thus was born, Lettering.js, a jQuery plugin for radical web typography.

We'll be walking through this simple jQuery plugin line-by-line, talking about the art of releasing a jQuery plugin, and peeking at some real-world use cases.

Of course we will followup his presentation with our wildly crowd-pleasing roundtable of JavaScript-related questions.  This is an open forum to present topics of discussion in a rapid-fire manner or simply heckle [@joemccann][5].

[1]: http://twitter.com/davatron5000
[2]: http://www.letteringjs.com
[3]: http://lostworldsfairs.com
[5]: http://twitter.com/joemccann
