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Stats Advanced Font Settings Advanced Font Settings Google Font Previewer for Chrome Google Font Previewer for Chrome
User count 600,000+ 40,000+
Average rating 3.75 4.20
Rating count 1,323 265
Last updated 2023-12-01 2022-07-04
Size 40.70K 46.98K
Version 0.71 3.0.0
Short description
Demonstrates the chrome.fontSettings API by allowing users to modify the style of displayed fonts on web pages. Choose a font from the Google Font directory with a few text styling options and preview the font styles on the current tab.
Full summary

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:

  1. The web page has declared the language of the content (e.g., by using the HTML lang attribute); and
  2. 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.

Lets you choose a font from the Google Font API directory, and apply that font to the entire page or a specified CSS selector to see how it looks. Useful when you're designing a website and want to quickly find a font that will look good. If you always use the same fonts, you can star them for quick access.