At the end of last May, Jeff Croft announced a library of Django tem­plate fil­ters that employ sev­eral rules to auto­mat­i­cally improve web typography:

• Typogrify: easily pro­duce web typog­ra­phy that doesn’t suck

Bless them. Unfor­tu­nately, what I really wanted was some­body to make this into a plugin for Word­Press. Wouldn’t that be nice.

Ladies and gentlemen…now we have it:

• Web typog­ra­phy just got better

Thank good­ness. I’ve already got it up and running.

On a side note, Typogrify includes the plugin widont, cre­ated by Shaun Inman. I had never heard of this plugin before. Basi­cally, it pre­vents widows in your type.

[…] the widont filter replaces the space between the last two words in an HTML ele­ment with   to ensure you never have just one word on it’s own line […]

Very clever.

Via Vit­a­min.