Advanced Font Settings

Name: Advanced Font Settings
Rating: 3.7526395173454 (1326 reviews)
Author: Patrick Kettner

Demonstrates the chrome.fontSettings API by allowing users to modify the style of displayed fonts on web pages.

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Advanced Font Settings Chrome extension lets you personalize font styles displayed on web pages based on language scripts. By utilizing the chrome.fontSettings API, it enables users to set default fonts for various scripts such as Simplified Chinese or Cyrillic independently. This ensures web content appears exactly as you prefer, provided the web page declares its language and doesn't specify its own font.

Users can seamlessly configure these settings by installing the extension and accessing its options via chrome://extensions. This tool is ideal for multilingual users who want precise control over typography to improve readability and aesthetic appeal across different languages.

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Version:

0.71 Last updated: 2023-12-01

Creation date:

2014-04-16

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Permissions:

fontSettings

Size:

39.75KB

Email:

pa*****@google.com

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-11

Ranking

# 559 ▲ 7

Other rankings

#3947 in Accessibility ▼ 8

#2 in custom font keyword 33

#2 in settings keyword 37

#3 in font keyword 56 ▼ 1

#51 in customize keyword 38 ▼ 5

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User reviews

Advanced Font Settings offers useful font customization per script, enhancing multilingual webpage readability and solving font consistency problems, particularly for Chinese and Japanese. However, it sometimes applies font changes globally rather than per script and lacks support for several languages like Korean and Persian. Users also report difficulties in configuration, limited ability to override website presets, and no updates in years. Overall, it's valuable for users seeking font control but has notable limitations and usability challenges.

Pros

Allows customization of fonts per script, helping improve font display for multilingual webpages.
Works well with fonts installed on the user's system, improving webpage readability.
The configuration menu is well designed, enabling customization of various scripts.
Solves certain font consistency issues, especially for Chinese and other complex scripts.
Useful for setting default fonts for specific languages or scripts, e.g., Japanese.

Cons

Does not always work as intended; sometimes applying font changes affects all scripts instead of just the selected one.
Lacks support or proper handling for some languages and scripts such as Korean, Bengali, Urdu, and Persian.
Does not override preset font settings on many websites, limiting customization.
Some users find it difficult or confusing to configure and get it working properly.
Has not been updated in many years, which may impact compatibility and feature improvements.

Recent reviews

Does not work for customizing font sizes per script. If you pick a script and change any of its font size settings, this changes the sizes for *all* scripts.

Ko*****, 2025-04-06

Generally good, but it's hard to make multilingual webpages look good. For example certain Latin words with diacritics look bad on a webpage labelled as Chinese because the Chinese font doesn't have full Latin coverage, but using the Latin font for the whole webpage doesn't work either.

Sa*****, 2024-12-19

doesn't seem to work. setting Latin script to inter and 新ゴ for Japanese seems to just use inter for everything

BP*****, 2024-10-12

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Advanced Font Settings does not require any sensitive permissions.

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Advanced Font Settings has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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