Custom Highlight

A chrome extension for customizing highlight color.

Custom Highlight: Customize Your Highlight Colors

Custom Highlight is a unique Chrome extension offering the ability to change the color of your highlights. It allows users to easily customize both the background and the text color of highlights, using a built-in color picker or by pasting hex codes. It functions with most websites and is fully compatible with Google Docs. Additionally, it also works with Dark Reader and ensures absolute user privacy as it neither reads nor handles any user data.

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Extension stats

By: Andreto

Users: 8,000+

1,000

Rating: 4.00

(23)

Version: 1.5.0 (Last updated: 2021-05-24)

Creation date: 2020-02-19

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
scripting

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 58.30K

Email: an*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 10,595 ▲ 664

Other rankings

#120 in Accessibility #37 in change color keyword 16 #141 in color keyword 76 ▼ 5 #248 in google docs keyword 30 ▲ 15

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Change Highlight background and text-color. It's easy to set the color with the built-in color picker or by copy and pasting color hex codes.

Works on pretty much all websites, including Google Docs.

Compatible with Dark Reader.

This extension does not read or handle any user data. https://andreto.github.io/Custom-Highlight/

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works well on most websites after a refresh
Offers options for different highlight colors
Helps improve focus by allowing users to highlight text
User-friendly once the extension is reloaded
Provides an alternative to the default highlight colors which some find harsh on the eyes

Cons

Doesn't work with Google Docs consistently
Requires Chrome to be restarted or pages to be refreshed for changes to take effect
Highlights can disappear when refreshing a page or highlighting new text
May not function properly on the Chrome Web Store
Some users reported it simply doesn't work

Most mentioned

Requires refreshing or restarting Chrome to activate
Doesn't work well with Google Docs
Works on most sites but not all
Highlighted text disappears on page refresh
Versatility in highlight colors is appreciated

User reviews

Doesn't work with Google Docs while it clearly states that it does.

Yigit, 2025-01-10

i like to highlight things so i can focus on them easier but the bright blue hurt my eyes so this was very helpful ^_^ you will need to reopen chrome for it to show up though!!