Stylish for Chrome
Stylish is an accessibility add-on for the Chrome browser that can detect the CSS settings of practically any website you visit and inject unique visual designs to entirely change its appearance. Stylish for Chrome allows you to modify the color scheme of your favorite websites using your own design or styles created by hundreds of other users online. This allows not only changing the background and text colors, but also designing custom skins and image backdrop wallpapers.
Highlights
- Discover a vast range of free website themes designed for popular platforms such as Roblox, YouTube, Facebook, Google, and more.
- Personalize the design of your preferred website by changing the background photos, color schemes, skins, social networking layouts, fonts, and animations.
- Easily manage installed styles by enabling, disabling, editing, or deleting them.
- Create and share your own styles and themes with a large audience with the Stylish CSS editor.
- Join a dynamic worldwide creative community and become part of something bigger.
- Over 3 million satisfied people have already adopted Stylish, a trustworthy choice!
While some websites now offer Dark modes and other special colors or themes, many still do not. Stylish allows users to control website design and change the appearance of practically any website they choose. This covers social media sites like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Baidu, popular web email apps, YouTube themes, and more.
Backgrounds, fonts, animations, color schemes, and other visual components of websites can be changed gradually or fully. The addon includes support for a variety of themes that can be simply activated, disabled, updated, or deleted, as well as full support for building brand new website themes using the built-in CSS editor.
The app's community feature has expanded to include a wide range of interactions among its enormous user base. The foundation of the community revolves around theme sharing, and if you are not skilled in CSS design, you can even request a theme for a certain site and look for a Stylish user to do the work for you. You can also leave comments, make ideas, promote yourself, and interact with folks from all around the world.
Installation and Use
Even though Stylish for Windows 11/10 can radically alter the appearance of practically every website you visit, the installation size is less than 2 MB. This is possible because this extension connects your web browser to the core Stylish web app, which will host the majority of the data.
Once installed, a new icon will appear on your toolbar, allowing you to open a popup window anytime you load a page that you wish to edit. The popup window will first display the "Library" tab, where you can browse alternative themes for a certain website, with an easy-to-use "Install Style" link next to each listed option. You can apply a new skin by going to the "Installed" menu.
Other options include a global On/Off switch for using any styles on top of the main popup window, as well as a connection to the full CSS editor, which allows you to alter website themes or develop entirely new ones.
Features & Highlights
- A one-click solution for changing the visual theme of your favorite websites.
- A big online community has produced thousands of interesting designs.
- Change the background, color scheme, text, and even animations.
- Add Dark mode or other graphic components to a website that doesn't already support them.
- Make your own visual themes with the built-in CSS editor.
- Interact with the vast community and request new themes.
- 100% FREE!
PROS
Customization: It offers a wide range of customization possibilities, allowing you to tailor the look and feel of webpages to your tastes. Fonts, colors, layout, and other settings are all customizable.
User-Friendly: The addon is simple to use, even for individuals with little coding knowledge. Stylesheets can be created and applied without having to write any code from start.
User-Created Styles: There is a vast community of people who build and share custom styles. This means you can get pre-made layouts for famous websites, which will save you time and work.
Themes & Dark Mode: Themes and dark mode styles are available for a variety of websites, making nighttime browsing easier on the eyes.
Improved Accessibility: Custom styles can be used to make websites more accessible by increasing text size, modifying colors for improved contrast, and more.
CONS
Compatibility Issues: Because certain websites often update their code or layout, custom styles may not work properly. To ensure that your styles function properly, you may need to change them on a frequent basis.
Resource-intensive: Using custom styles can cause your browser to slow down, especially if you have a lot of styles applied at once. This can cause performance concerns.
Browser upgrades: Changes in the browser's code or upgrades to the extension itself can occasionally cause the tool's functionality to fail until it is updated to work properly.
Learning Curve: While Stylish is easy to use, generating sophisticated custom styles still requires some CSS expertise, which may be a barrier for certain people.
Not Supported Everywhere: It may not work on all websites because some have security measures in place to restrict the use of custom styles.