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Georgify
Alternate CSS for Hacker News with a focus on typography and readability.
What is Georgify?
"Georgify" is a Chrome extension specifically designed to improve the readability of Hacker News. It does so by introducing an alternate CSS that utilizes the Georgia font and delicately applied typographic techniques to enhance legibility, presenting an optimized reading experience for users. It securely works over Https, and it's also compatible with secure Hacker News connections. The visually appealing layout significantly reduces whitespace, while also realigning comment points and source aligned to the left.
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By:
Tuhin Kumar
Rating:
4.36
(75)
Creation date:
2013-10-20
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Size:
14.32K
URLs:
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Stats date:
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Summary
Alternate CSS for Hacker News with a focus on typography and readability. Uses Georgia as the font and some typographic sugar to improve legibility.
Update _v1.2.1: Works over Https and secure connection for Hacker News. Updated for Manifest v2 which makes it searchable in chrome store.
Update _v1.2: Works over Https and secure connection for Hacker News
Update _v1: Less whitespace, Comment points and Source flushed to left
Feedback: @tuhin on Twitter
User reviews
The typography is nice and clear but there is a bit too much white space between the entries for my taste.
Additionally, this app does not work when viewing HN through a secure connection. This is a deal breaker for me unfortunately.
by
A Google user, 2012-03-11
A Google user, 2012-03-11It looks lovely, but there has been a longstanding bug (a year? two?) where *short comments* look like they are indented much more than they ought to be, which makes following threads really hard in many cases.
I uninstalled the extension because this eventually annoyed me to death. :-/
by
A Google user, 2012-05-11
A Google user, 2012-05-11The typography is nice and clear but there is a bit too much white space between the entries for my taste.
Additionally, this app does not work when viewing HN through a secure connection. This is a deal breaker for me unfortunately.
by
A Google user, 2012-03-11
A Google user, 2012-03-11Safety
Risk impact
Georgify is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Georgify has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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