Fokus is a text-highlighting Chrome add-on that helps in reading the emphasized text by fading the rest of the area with a semi-transparent black overlay. This add-on allows you to read anything on webpages and provides you a non-distractive environment as it covers the rest of the screen with an opaque overlay.
Fokus is a text-highlighting Chrome add-on that lets you customize the overlay opacity, so that you can read the emphasized text without any obstructions. It also allows you to customize the selection padding area and provides you a key modifier, which must be held down in order to activate the overlay. This is a very handy text-highlighting Chrome plugin that offers you its best to let you read the text of any webpage by allowing you to focus on the text and not anywhere else. Let’s checkout its features.
Features Of Fokus:
- Text-highlighting Chrome add-on.
- Allows you to read the emphasized text without any obstructions.
- Covers the rest of the area with a semi-transparent black overlay.
- Allows you to customize the selection padding area.
- Lets you customize the overlay opacity .
- Provides you a key modifier.
- Simple and handy.
Procedure To Use This Text-Highlighting Chrome Add-on:
Fokus can be grabbed either from the link provided to you at the end of this article or you can avail it from the Chrome Webstore. Then simply click on “Add To Chrome” and wait until it gets downloaded and installed in your Chrome browser. As soon it gets installed in your Chrome browser, it starts it work from that moment itself.
You can see that when you select any text from the webpage it fades the rest of the screen and forms a semi-transparent black overlay, so that you can emphasize on the highlighted text and do not get distracted by any other occurrence on the webpage. The aim of this text-highlighting Chrome add-on is to offer you a distraction-free environment while reading any kind of text on your webpage.
To customize the settings of this text-highlighting Chrome add-on you need to access its options. To access options, simply click on the “wrench icon” present on the top-most right corner of your browser window, then click on “Settings”, then “Extension”, and then choose “Options” against Fokus’s entry. Then you can easily customize the percentage of the overlay opacity and adjust the selection padding area. It provides you the facility to specify a modifier key and lets you select the options for the same among shift, ctrl, alt, and cmd in order to activate the overlay with a single keystroke.
Checkout the similar add-on’s, Text Mode and Write Space reviewed earlier by us to provide you distraction-free environment while reading and writing.
My Verdict For Fokus:
Fokus is a text-highlighting Chrome add-on, that helps in reading the emphasized text on webpages of your Chrome browser by forming a layer of a semi-transparent black overlay on the left out contents of the screen. This add-on shows justice with its name and provides you a distraction- free environment and helps you to focus while reading the web content.
