Make words colorful

Latest Version

Version
0.1.1
Update
February 4, 2019
Size
887KiB
Developer
Category
Users
350
Rating
3 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
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Synesthesia Extension

The idea is to help induce synesthesia between words and colors, so that when you see a word you think about it in a particular color. Not only has this been proven to increase verbal memory but now just the visual of a word has a color connected to it. With reading as an essential daily function imagine making your day just a bit more colorful :)
I also wrote a medium article on synesthesia and why I built this (https://medium.com/@ilianherzi/inducing-synesthesia-4ead16f37a1b).
Couple of things about version 0.1.0 of the extension:

0. The current version is best used on webpages that don't update or change with a lot of text (so when reading).
1. For dynamic pages that update the color changes don't persist, so for example in gmail colored words go back to black and white.
2. On input text the color of the words don't change (so typing an email, writing a post, searching on google)

These difficulties with the extension will be fixed in version 0.2.0!
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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K. L. (ID: 0000004670bf8485) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 04/06/2022 I was excited but it doesn't work for me. The configuration menu doesn't pop up when I click on the extension options, and it doesn't change the color on any text for me. If this changes, I would be happy to change my review! I hope the developer has time to update soon :)

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Roy (ID: 0000006a51bf4aa8) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/02/2021 It's not working. Still five stars because I really like the idea of this

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Jamie Stewart (ID: 000000ae77ce685f) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 03/02/2020 Whenever I pressed the button to color the words they came out very desaturated and far from their actual colors, very sepia-esque.

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Rose Cosenza (ID: 00000084a10d5e2f) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 02/22/2020 It doesn't work, I'm unable to change the colors on the letters to anything other than black

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(ID: ) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 02/22/2019 It doesn't work? I was really excited but it's not letting me customize the letters. They're all still black.