Basic Font Readability

Make text on any website bigger/smaller or sans-serif/serif without changing the website's layout.
What is Basic Font Readability?
Basic Font Readability is a Chrome extension that allows you to adjust the size and font style of text on any website, making it easier to read. You can make the text bigger or smaller, and switch between sans-serif and serif fonts without affecting the website's layout.

Extension stats

Users: 52 ▲ 3
Rating: 4.00 (4)
Version: 0.4 (Last updated: 2020-03-20)
Creation date: 2020-03-18
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 165.89K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Are you ever on website with really small text in a really hard to read font? But you can zoom in so no problem right? But.. now you've zoomed in you can see the menu or the general website layout BECAUSE you zoomed in?

With this extension you don't have to lose the layout of the website AND you can make it all an easy to read font.

Make all text:

  1. Bigger OR Smaller
  2. Sans Serif or Serif (basically Arial vs Times New Roman).

User reviews

The only one that worked for me. Thanks.
by Licitação Tix, 2024-02-13

It works great, and the UI is intuitive. How ironic that modern sites don't provide/design for such 'basic' need lol but with bold switch will be even better, and MS has planned to improve the text render so who knows who will end this madness lol
by kliop00023, 2021-04-08

It doesn't work for me. I tried highlighting the text, different websites, nothing happens or changes to make it more readable. With the latest updates to Chrome certain fonts are very hard to read properly because they are thin and somewhat pixelated. The font color, usually grey, doesn't help either if they background is white. I was hoping this would help. Nope. My search continues.
by Mamita Xaris, 2020-11-09
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Basic Font Readability requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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