Font blocker

Blocks the fonts you want to block.

Font Blocker: Control Your Viewing Experience

"Font blocker" is a Chrome extension that empowers users to refine their web browsing experience by blocking custom fonts that they find annoying or disruptive. It does this by adding the identified font to a local database, which is immediately blocked. Features include the ability to block fonts globally, across all websites, and mark fonts for blocking or unblocking. It also provides compatibility for Firefox through WebExtensions. Version updates offer continual improvements for an innovative browsing experience.

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By: Rudie Dirkx

Users: 841

Rating: 4.18

(28)

Version: 1.20 (Last updated: 2024-12-23)

Creation date: 2019-10-04

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus

Size: 33.69K

Email: ch*****@hotblocks.nl

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 31,508 ▲ 165

Other rankings

#1159 in Accessibility ▲ 8 #14 in custom font keyword 36 ▲ 4 #39 in font keyword 23 ▲ 5

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Effectively blocks unwanted web fonts to improve readability
Easy to use with a simple interface for blocking fonts
Helps reduce eyestrain by allowing users to choose more readable fonts
Works for many websites that implement difficult-to-read fonts
Specifically designed for users who dislike modern web fonts like 'Roboto' and 'Open Sans'

Cons

Defaults to Arial without customization options for user-defined fonts
Fails to add blocked fonts to the list in some situations
Breaks font metrics, causing issues with text caret placement in online editors
Limited range of replacement fonts (only includes Arial, Verdana, etc.)
Requires site-by-site blocking instead of a permanent block option

Most mentioned

Blocks unwanted fonts effectively
Users wish for customizable font options instead of default replacements
Some functionalities are not working as expected (e.g., adding blocked fonts)

User reviews

Issues: 1) replaces to Arial!!! My eyes are bleeding. Should better have a user-configured default sans font; 2) replaces monospaced to Arial!!! My eyes are bleeding. Should better have a user-configured default monospace font; 3) replaces serif to Arial!!! My eyes are bleeding. Should better have a user-configured default serif font. 4) Probably breaks font metrics, so on-line editors misplace text caret. For me it's definitely broken. Otherwise extension is working good, it really makes all those mad designers to behaviour nice. But with 1-4 problems, this extension is useless.

Walter Pratt, 2022-08-31

Thank you, this comes in very handy to solve the new Twitter font dilemma.

Hans-Harald Glatt, 2021-08-12

Unfortunately it no longer seems to work. seleting an area of text, right click, select Block Custom Font and nothign is added to the list....

Alex Wood, 2021-03-08

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Font blocker requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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