Chrome-Stats extension
Glyphs
Quick access to common special characters through the floating window.
What is Glyphs?
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Summary
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.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Easy to use
- Fast
- Does not require special permissions to run
Cons
- Possible malware
- May redirect Google searches to Bing
- May have some bugs
Most mentioned
- Ease of use
- Possible security issues
- Insertion of symbols
Recent reviews
Kelley van Evert, 2023-12-08
bert deslagmulder, 2023-05-23
Seminole Community Library at SPC, 2022-03-09Safety
Risk impact
Glyphs is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Glyphs has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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