Compare Chrome extensions: Advanced Font Settings vs Force Custom Fonts

Stats Advanced Font Settings Advanced Font Settings Force Custom Fonts Force Custom Fonts
User count 600,000+ 30,000+
Average rating 3.75 4.63
Rating count 1,324 325
Last updated 2023-12-01 2016-11-17
Size 40.70K 14.77K
Version 0.71 2.4.0
Short description
Demonstrates the chrome.fontSettings API by allowing users to modify the style of displayed fonts on web pages. Force the use of custom fonts for web pages. If you are professional in using CSS, the extension "Stylish" is suggested.
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.

This extension has a limit:

You can not chain two substitution rules, .e.g: Font-A --> Font-B Font-B --> Font-C does not conclude Font-A --> Font-C

If I have time I'll make a similar extension about fonts. Thanks for your support.

Change Logs: v2.4.0 fix translations and add a local switch for who wants to disable this extension (on macbook pro?) v2.3.1 remove redundant files v2.3.0 now reset will auto-remove the effect added to the webpages v2.2.1 small improvement about the CSS about element <var> and font-face v2.2.0 the problem about no replacement happening was fixed