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: 810

-16

Rating: 4.15

(27)

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

Creation date: 2019-10-04

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus

Size: 33.69K

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

Ranking

# 32,196 ▲ 134

Other rankings

#1206 in Accessibility ▲ 7 #7 in custom font keyword 33 #25 in font keyword 54 ▲ 3

Other platforms

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3.44

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Font blocker (v1.19)

4.20

(5) 39

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Extension summary

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Right click on an annoying custom web font and click "Block custom font" to add it to the local database. The font will be blocked immediately.

1.19 Removed broken Bold and Italic support.

1.18 Fixed unused message port, no more vague "Unchecked runtime.lastError" errors.

1.17 Better Bold and Italic support. WebExtensions compatibility for Firefox.

1.16 Fewer console messages.

1.15

User reviews

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Pros

Effective at blocking unreadable or ugly fonts
Simple and easy to use interface
Provides an immediate fix for problematic fonts on websites
Allows users to choose specific fonts to block
Helps reduce eyestrain from thin or difficult-to-read fonts

Cons

Replaces blocked fonts with a limited selection (mainly Arial)
May break font metrics, causing issues with text caret positioning in editors
No option to set a user-defined default font
Some users experience functionality issues or bugs (e.g., not working in certain Chrome versions)
Lacks a global blocking feature for persistent font blocking across sites

Most mentioned

Eyes are bleeding from replaced fonts
Thankful for a solution to undesirable fonts on the web
Requests for a default font setting
Comments on the extension not functioning correctly
Praises for reducing eyestrain

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.