Reviews for Text Legibility
Text Legibility by Clear Solutions Software
45 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13808075, 7 years agoI installed this on my windows 10 computer, and my android tablet.
It works great on both, and now I can read everything, without screwing my eyes up!
Thank you! - Rated 4 out of 5by nakivagyok, 7 years ago1. Please increase the line spacing because the lines are too crowded for larger font sizes. Let me change the line spacing as I like.
2. I would like the addon to remember its site's settings. - Rated 4 out of 5by Sean Ryan, 7 years agoI find this extension extremely useful, but it always hangs on site https://msdn.microsoft.com/vba/office-vba-reference. For most pages in the site, I regularly get the message "A script in the extension "Legibility" is causing Firefox to slow down". The interruptions continue even after I uncheck "Enable" in the Legibility pop-up, and the only way to browse without disturbance is to disable the extension under about:addons. To re-create the problem, navigate to the above website then click random entries in the left-hand column under "Table of Contents". The extension misbehaves only on these Microsoft pages.
- Rated 3 out of 5by recycler.fox, 7 years agoPlease, add an option to disable this acid (and illegible) badge over the icon! Also, 'contrast' option makes double texts within input areas of some sites, so white/black listing would be helpful. Thanks.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Phil856745, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13569029, 7 years ago2.5 stars. This extension is the only one of it's kind that works at all for the current version of Firefox, however, the developer should compare it to Chrome's extension "Font Rendering Enhancer". There, there is only one setting. The contrast is increased without distortion and all colors are kept including the color of links (it seems to me that the extension causes Chrome to render all the text on a page twice; first where it belongs and then again shifted to the right less than one pixel, and it's adjustable). On the other hand, this extension for Firefox, known as Legibility is awkward and at best will make colored text monochrome (as well as text intended to be grey). But, since it is the only practical solution available for Firefox text, I'm giving it 2.5 stars.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5618408, 7 years agoI like it and I want to buy it for the 5.00. Can i use my credit card instead of the paypal.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13527254, 7 years agoThank you for your efforts with this nice extension. I am using it every day.
I found at least one site where the extension's adjustment of text contrast makes things worse though. https://www.torontopearson.com/en/flights/schedules/ The text "departures", "arrivals" etc are originally light coloured on dark background, but the extension makes the text colour dark and practically invisible. Maybe you can have a look at that specific case and improve your code?
Thanks again.
Vladimir - Rated 4 out of 5by xBB, 7 years agoWorks as expected, great addon. However I feel like there should be a option to make domain-specific settings, instead of whole web.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Marius, 7 years agoI like very much to use your Legibility add on, but I have a hard time trying to find out how to use it.
Please give instructions on how to use it, in clear easy to understand words.
Still I commend you for your good heart to have produced this add on.
Thanks a lot.
Marius Dejess
mdejess@gmail.com - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13209425, 7 years agoLove this! Stumbled on it while prepping FF for 11/14/17 57 release. For the eyeball impaired (sure there's a better term...) it works like a charm. Not only the physical size of the characters, but 2 important factors. Contrast (that horrid grey stuff!) and the edge highlight. Latter is akin to the TrueType Font adjustment in Windows....sharpens the edges so characters appear more clean cut. The author can explain better, I just know what I see and like.
This is a true case of WYSIWYG! Make it your own! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12862905, 7 years agoI like the idea of this and I wish I could get it to work on 56.0 for Android. Alas, it appears in the drop down menu but selecting the"Legibility" menu item does absolutely nothing. Tried restarting my tablet to no avail. Any suggestions gratefully received.
- Rated 5 out of 5by TomAlex64, 7 years agoThe gray text fetish is driving me nuts. This add-on is fast and generally effective. I have it set to 86 Minimum, 100 Maximum and 100 Edge. Some web pages are less readable with the settings and it that case you simply disable the add-on. I do not understand why someone else feels compelled to determine what constitutes readability for me, without any knowledge of my hardware or software or my visual acuity. This is a Godsend for me.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Oscar, 8 years agoThe addon is great, it has really helped me with my eye strain issues due to the increasingly popular design trend of low contrast and tiny text sizes. I don't have poor eyesight, but I like having a reasonable text size and contrast so I can actually read it without having to keep on re-reading it due to the uncertainty caused by it being hard to see.
There's only one major issue for me: When a neutral grey text is overlayed on top of a dark or black background, the addon only shifts the text to a darker colour like black - making it invisible! It would be good if the addon was aware of the parent element's background colour and to factor that in so that the text colour would shift more towards white rather than black when on a black background. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12939703, 8 years agoI installed this on Firefox 52 on Android 6.0.1, but it has no effect. It shows up in the list of addons, but it has no effect and I can't find any menu item anywhere in Firefox that refers to it. Like it's invisible.
It says it runs on Firefox 48 and later. Did this stop working recently? - Rated 4 out of 5by Cartman, 8 years agoGreat solution for all the web geniuses out there that think medium gray text on a light gray background looks slick.
I don't understand all the knobs, but setting
Text Contrast 0
Minimum 100
Maximum 100
works for me. Thank you! - Rated 5 out of 5by aperice, 8 years agoIt would be good to have a blacklist, to disable it on some sites.
Maybe add an option so that only pure gray text is changed, so that coloured text is not altered.
There is also the dilemma of dark backgrounds. Ideally lighter than 50% text should be lightened, but how do you know what the background is?
What I like about the add-on is it keeps things fairly simple.
I see it needs a restart to take effect, but this is not made clear, so people may think it doesn't work.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThe tension is between simplicity and flexibility. A blacklist could work as a compromise between saving settings for each site and nothing.
Contrast to dark backgrounds is a real problem. There are ways to guess the background color, none of them fully reliable. I keep wishing that someday browsers will expose the computed background.
I did not know that a restart is required. Will see if anything can be done. - Rated 4 out of 5by nknm, 8 years agoWhen I first reviewed this add-on I thought it didn't work. That's because I was testing it on addons.mozilla.org. For some reason it doesn't work on that site, but it does seem to work on all the other sites I tried.
Text Legibility allows you to set various parameters globally; that is, the settings you choose will apply to all sites. This is convenient but it can lead to some inconsistent results. Firefox's built-in zoom feature enables you to tailor zoom levels to individual sites.Developer response
posted 8 years agoCan you tell me the situation that fails: browser/OS versions, web page, and the steps? I am happy to fix bugs, but cannot when there's no way to reproduce them. Thanks!