Google Font Previewer for Chrome

WHAT THE HECK this has no stupid Dam FONTS! it has some knock off stuff what a rip off

It doesn't show me any of my system-installed fonts! ??!! I specifically want to use one of my own custom-created fonts, but it just shows me tons of generic knock-off fonts. Bleah!

very slow.

Very unstable.

Good idea but useless without being able to choose from each fonts available weights

Doesn't load when done installing...

doesn't open when done installing and the extension button doesn't do anything

The font filters are just inadequate for the amount of fonts google now offers (i. e. can't filter by serif/sans/mono/...). Also it sometimes just doesn't work.

Nothing happens when I pressed a button...

this app was totally useless to me!

Only "*" seems to work as selector, which changes the font on all elements, but not e.g. "body". Useless.

Good work Pamela, Here is better way to do it:- 1. don't load all fonts that I never want to use it myself. 2. search for font that I am searching for. Much better if you show me related font in same style or type. Now then apply so I can better scroll font (plugin windows). Make it better and don't load all fonts in list and I will gave 5 star rating. :) Good work! :)

doesnt work

doesn't work

The extension is awesome...when it works. It freezes, but dot know if its due to other extensions or what.

Doesn't change any fonts (Chrome Canary v27, ubuntu). At least for local files. Also, loading fonts and/or typing in the selector box freezes the extension.

It just doesn't work for me, nothing clickable, no reaction to anything. That's sad :-( And yes I tried also with no other extensions activated...

SLOW, VERY SLOW. Takes forever to load all the fonts, and if you click out of the window you have to do it all over. Also, no easy way to quickly navigate through fonts.

Doesnt work. Cannot click on any of the options. Tried re-installing. Piece of crap.

not working

Please have a search box.. Extension is laggy trying to load all the fonts.

Ok so I used it a few years ago. While it gets the job done quickly, the main problem is that it doesn't apply proper weights to the on-screen fonts. PS - snapfont does this quite well.

It only worked for awhile,then after closing my gmail and going back later the font is gone and has to be selected again :( Nice idea but it needs to work

Very difficult to read!

Usefull on web sites, but when I design in local files doesn't work...

It's good but needs to be undockable so it doesn't block the view of the page.

Nice concept, but hard to see the fonts and would like the ability to update via multiple selectors. Also, no support for font weights. Check out "Previewer for Google Fonts" for a better solution.

I feel this extension is misnamed. It is called a "previewer" but really it just provides an extension that lets you select fonts/settings from google fonts and generates the stylesheet link for you...you still need to then add that single <link> tag into your html to "preview" that font combo. As soon as you close the extension's window it loses all your settings and so you have to start from scratch each time...which is fairly useless. More useful would be an extension that automatically injected the font stylesheet into the page at the current tab. Let you specify a set of font selectors with different fonts/sizes/weights/letter-spacing/etc and had those dynamically applied to the page. Settings should be saved so you can tweak typography on real webpage over time until you find the font/setting combination you want to use and then export the settings. Something like that.

This would be super helpful, but there is one BIG problem. When you change between Tabs, it forgets all your settings about selectors and font and you have to start over. Also size and weight don't work. A bit halfassed right now, still usable to some extend.

It works, and it's useful, but the performance is absolutely terrible. It loads EVERY SINGLE FONT when you open the menu. There is no option to disable it, and you cannot filter the fonts by name. And it doesn't even cache them. This makes it take several minutes to locate a specific font because EVERY time I scroll the window freezes for several seconds to render the list. If I could just untick the "font preview" option and see a sans-serif list of font names, I would give this 5 stars. Better yet, do generate the font names but save them as a local image. Stop having to reload all of these fonts just because I closed the window... wow. Right now, it's barely usable.

why doesnt work to my chrome ?

Doesn't seem to work on HTTPS sites as it uses the HTTP versions of the fonts (which are then blocked)

It's good but i think it doesn't work with https.

Nice extension, but I think that it would be so much better if it didn't reset every time the dialog box is opened and if there was some filtering/search options for narrowing down the fonts. Cheers!

A very good idea, however, it's not so useful if you don't know the name of the font you need. I would suggest two things: 1. there should be 4 categories to filter through: sans-serif, serif, display, handwriting 2. The font size of the preview should be much bigger, even if it meant we will be able to only see the letters "Ab"