Styleguide vs wp-Typography
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| Feature | Styleguide v1.8.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 5.0/5 Visit Details | wp-Typography v5.11.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 2,000+ | 10,000+ |
| Last updated | January 30, 2024 | February 23, 2025 |
| Editions | Styleguide - Custom Fonts and Colors | wp-Typography |
| Pros | Live preview in the Customizer before saving; Curated Google Fonts with character-set filters; No code needed for font and colour changes | Hyphenation and widow prevention; Smart quotes, dashes and ellipses; Ignore rules for tags, classes and IDs |
| Cons | Colour changes only work for supported themes; Font loading depends on Google Fonts; Last tested on WordPress 6.5 | Many options to set up before the output looks right; Hyphenation needs the right language set per site; Adds processing to rendered text |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Font and colour controls in the Customizer, Curated list of Google Fonts, Filter fonts by character set, Replace theme font declarations at page output, Replace theme colours at page output, Per-theme style maps for supported themes, Settings registered with the WordPress settings API | Automatic hyphenation with language settings, Smart quotes, dashes, ellipses and marks, Widow prevention, Forced wrapping of long URLs, emails and hyphens, Typography block for the block editor, Settings page under the Settings menu |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | — | Advanced Custom Fields |
| Other | Google Fonts | — |
| Requires WordPress | 4.5 | 6.6 |
| Requires PHP | — | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 6.5.0 | 6.7 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | fonts.googleapis.com | — |
| Blocks | — | 1 |