Advanced Font Settings

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

Advanced Font Settings - Customize Your Web Fonts

'Advanced Font Settings' is a Chrome extension enabling users to alter the style of displayed fonts on websites per language scripts. The extension provides a unique formula to customize fonts which comes into effect when the web page declares the content language and does not specify a font. Ideal for users who interact with multi-language websites.

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By: Patrick Kettner

Users: 500,000+

Rating: 3.75

(1,330)

Version: 0.71 (Last updated: 2023-12-01)

Creation date: 2014-04-16

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

fontSettings

Size: 40.70K

Email: pa*****@google.com

Ranking

# 917 ▼ 6

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#4017 in Accessibility ▼ 6

#2 in custom font keyword 33

#2 in settings keyword 37 ▲ 1

#6 in font keyword 54 ▼ 1

#150 in example keyword 2 ▲ 13

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Extension summary

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This extension allows you to customize font settings for different language scripts. For example, you can set the default font for Simplified Chinese content to be different than the font for Japanese content. The settings are per-script (as specified in ISO 15924) rather than per-language. For example, there is a single setting for Cyrillic script rather than separate ones for Russian, Ukrainian, etc.

Chrome will use the font settings controlled by this extension when BOTH of the following are true:

The web page has declared the language of the content (e.g., by using the HTML lang attribute); and
The web page has not specified a font to use.

To use this extension, add it to Chrome and then go to chrome://extensions and click on the "Options" link for this extension.

User reviews

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Pros

Works as advertised
Allows customization of fonts based on script
Configuration menu is well done

Cons

Many users reported that it doesn't work or has limited functionality
Some specific scripts or languages (like Korean, Bengali, Cyrillic) have issues with font replacement
Users experienced confusion on how to navigate the settings

Most mentioned

Doesn't work for multiple users
Font replacement issues for certain scripts
Configuration and user interface can be confusing

User reviews

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.