Glyphs

Quick access to common special characters through the floating window.

What is Glyphs?

"Glyphs" is a Chrome extension designed to facilitate access to special typography that are not easily found on the standard keyboard. It includes 605 characters, primarily sourced from AGLFN, supplemented with Unicode dashes and spaces designed for editors. It has categories including Basic Latin, Extended Latin A and B, punctuation, dashes, quotes, whitespace, currency, numbers, math symbols, symbols, Greek and Coptic.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-05-22

By: https://www.bartoszlorek.pl

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.00 (12)

Version: 1.2.1 (Last updated: 2019-03-05)

Creation date: 2019-03-05

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab

Size: 108.54K

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URLs: Website

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Many of the special typographic features within fonts — from bullets and em dashes to fractions — cannot be found on the keyboard. Glyphs extension provides quick access to common special characters through the floating window displayed on the page.

The extension glyph set includes 605 characters, mostly from AGLFN (Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts) a list of base glyphs that are recommended for new fonts, extended with all Unicode dashes and whitespace that are especially useful to editors.

Each character is assigned to one or more categories: Basic Latin and Latin 1, Extended Latin A and B, Punctuation, Dashes & Quotes, Whitespace, Currency, Numbers, Math Symbols, Symbols, Greek and Coptic.

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