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Advanced Font Settings

Demonstrates the chrome.fontSettings API by allowing users to modify the style of displayed fonts on web pages.

Users400KCurrent public install base

Rating3.8Store average score

Reviews1,325Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

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Version0.71

ManifestV3

Size39.75KiB

Languages1English

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This extension allows you to customize font settings for different language scripts. For example, you can set the default font for Simplified Chinese content to be different than the font for Japanese content. The settings are per-script (as specified in ISO 15924) rather than per-language. For example, there is a single setting for Cyrillic script rather than separate ones for Russian, Ukrainian, etc.

Chrome will use the font settings controlled by this extension when BOTH of the following are true:

1) The web page has declared the language of the content (e.g., by using the HTML lang attribute); and

2) The web page has not specified a font to use.

To use this extension, add it to Chrome and then go to chrome://extensions and click on the "Options" link for this extension.

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Store average score3.8Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average3.2Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text267Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews1,325Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Welton Gonçalves2013年8月22日

I've always thought Chrome wasn't great at displaying CJK text. 6 years in the waiting and I've finally come across the solution!

Anoir Ben Tanfous2013年8月10日

work as expected... it will need to sync maybe the settings so it keep them saved...

Steve Capell2013年7月28日

For a long time I thought that this extension didn't work at all. Eventually I figured out that unlike the other browsers, which detect language automatically, this extension uses the "lang" html attribute to make the decision. So it works on web pages that use that attribute, but not on other pages. The automatic approach makes a lot more sense because often languages are mixed. This plugin falls back on some arbitrary font for any other characters that show up outside of the stated language, which is unfortunate.

Anonymous user2013年5月26日

Does everything it's supposed to do, even though Chrome is a bit limiting in this regard compared to e.g. Firefox.

Jay Bentley2013年4月6日

Seems to only work with the default script and not any of the per-language ones, which obviously makes the extension do nothing more than the default UI. Hopefully it gets fixed and this 5 year oversight in Chrome will finally be solved.

Virgil Ming2013年3月13日

Just why can't I change the script? If I cannot change the script then what's the meaning of this? Tested on Chrome 25.0.1364.152.

AI product read

Chrome font settings customization UI per writing script

Allows users to set different default fonts for different language scripts (e.g., different fonts for Simplified Chinese vs Japanese vs Cyrillic), which Chrome's built-in settings don't expose granularly

Install extension → Navigate to chrome://extensions → Click 'Options' link for the extension → Select a script from the dropdown → Configure font family and size settings for that script → Click Apply to save settings

Target users: Multilingual users who need different fonts for different scripts / Users who want granular font control beyond Chrome's default settings / Web developers testing font rendering across scripts

Extension is a Google sample/demo, so behavior is well-understood from store description and manifest alone
No external network calls to verify - purely local Chrome API usage

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Free extension with no payment processing, subscription logic, or premium feature gating. All keyword hits for 'pro' and 'license' are false positives from source code comments (Apache License headers, 'property' references in JS).

Confidence: 98
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Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: Extension only uses Chrome's built-in fontSettings API with no authentication, user accounts, or external service access. The only permission is 'fontSettings' which operates locally on the user's browser.

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Patrick Kettner

Google Ireland, Ltd.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +16502530000
Address: Gordon House Barrow Street Dublin 4 D04 E5W5 IE

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