Darken text

This extension darkens text in <p> tags to make blog text more readable.

What is Darken text?

"Darken Text" is a Chrome extension that helps users enhance their reading experience on the web. It darkens the color of text within paragraph, list, article, and div tags, turning light, hard-to-read text to black. It features a simple interface with a single click operation and a handy keyboard shortcut. Ideal for anyone dealing with light-colored text that's hard on the eye.

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By: [email protected]

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Users: 2,000+

Rating: 3.53 (38)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2015-09-03)

Creation date: 2015-09-02

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://*/*

Size: 18.67K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 18547 ▲ 25

Other rankings

#4806 in Social Networking ▲ 17 #275 in article keyword 12 ▲ 9 #292 in shift keyword 36 ▲ 1

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Summary

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To improve readability, you can darken text (DT) on blog and news articles with one click. Don't you hate it when bloggers or designers think that light grey text on a grey background is artistic? Dude, hello? It's practically invisible! I'm trying to read your article here.... This Chrome extension installs a button labelled "DT" that you can click on to darken text inside

tags so that the text becomes more readable. No instruction manuals. Just a simple single click and it turns

tagged text to black.

I found that I'm using it all the time, so version 1.1 adds a keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+K (or COMMAND+SHIFT+K on Mac). As of version 1.1 the text color of the following tags are turned to black:

. Hope this helps you guys. Email me if you have any features requests. I'll make the DT Chrome Extension do anything you want except wipe your butt. You'll have to ask your mommy to do that for you.

BTW, feel free to email me if you need a programmer. I'm a freelance web developer.

Cheers! David :) [email protected] http://www.davidbeckwith.com

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Useful for providing clearer and visible text.
Works on a variety of websites.
Enhances reader's comfort by darkening low contrast text.

Cons

Doesn't work on all websites.
No indication or verification that text has been darkened.
Does not work automatically on every new page.

Most mentioned

Varies in effectiveness depending on website's HTML coding.
Converts light gray text to dark gray.
Users would prefer it to work automatically on all pages.

Recent reviews

Works like a charm.

Yvan Ganza, 2023-11-02

Not bad, but "Chrome Font Super Enhancer" extension gives better results

Erminio Balliani, 2022-08-03

How to know it's darkened the text? Why no indicator to indicate that it did it? E.g. like highlight the icon in some way. Cuz I saw no change in text at a few sites tried. Google chrome has GREY text, not pure black like in Slim Browser etc.. So does this make the grey text black? Plus, the totally off-topic vulgarity in his description in the Chrome Web Store creates a bitter association/memory etc. It totally put me off this thing. Good riddance.

R S, 2021-10-09

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Safety

Risk impact

Darken text may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.