Fokal

Select text by habit when reading? Add background dimming or use softer selection shapes for better readability.

What is Fokal?

Fokal is a Chrome extension that replaces the text selection highlight with a visual upgrade, making it easier on the eyes. It allows you to customize highlighting shapes, apply background dimming, and blur. Fokal aims to improve readability and enhance the text selection experience while browsing the web.

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By: Nexii Malthus

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Users: 4

Rating: 2.00 (2)

Version: 8 (Last updated: 2014-03-04)

Creation date: 2014-03-04

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

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Size: 31.51K

Ranking

# 140308 ▼ 500

Other rankings

#8494 in Accessibility ▼ 31 #80 in shape keyword 7 ▼ 1 #146 in algorithm keyword 2 ▼ 6

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Extension summary

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Fokal replaces your browsers text selection highlight with a visual upgrade that is easier on the eyes.

Most prominent feature is the ability to dim the background to emphasise your selection.

You can customize the shapes and visual appearance of your highlighting. The background dimmer can be changed individually from the sharp text highlight.

The extension uses a fullscreen HTML5 Canvas and will attempt to emulate the shape of your browsers selection as efficiently and accurately as possible, so that it works in a way that is very familiar to you already.

Nexii (the developer) has been using this for more than half a year and swears by it. By no means perfect, but once you use it you won't go back :)

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Version 8

Updated shape algorithms (Rounding works somewhat better)

User reviews

It's definitely what Im looking for in idea point of view. But it's unusable for now:( Old selection is does kill all the benefits from that plugin. On some sites, like duckduckgo search page selection is randomly. Also it would be greate to have multi-selection. (Don't forget add custom shortcut, cause ctrl+click does appears as right click on mac:))