ReaDeStress - Reading De-Stressed

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ReaDeStress - Reading De-Stressed: Your Eye-Friendly Reading Companion

Tired of eye strain, headaches, or difficulty focusing while reading online? ReaDeStress transforms any webpage into a comfortable, personalized reading environment, designed to reduce visual fatigue and improve readability for everyone, including those with dyslexia or visual impairments.

Key Features for Effortless Reading:
One-Click Activation: Simply click the ReaDeStress icon in your browser toolbar to instantly apply your preferred reading enhancements to the current page.

Persistent Settings: Your theme, font, size, and style settings are saved locally and will automatically apply to new tabs when "All Tabs" mode is enabled, ensuring a consistent and comfortable experience.

Per-Tab or All-Tabs Mode: Easily toggle enhancements for the active tab or enable them for all tabs simultaneously from the popup menu.

Customize Your Reading Experience:
Reading Modes (Themes):
Choose from a variety of eye-friendly color themes to suit your environment and preferences:

Text Only: Improves line spacing, letter spacing, and word spacing for enhanced readability without altering page colors.

Light: A classic high-contrast theme with dark text on a bright white background.

Dark: Inverts colors for comfortable night-time reading, featuring light text on a dark background.

Warm: A soothing, sepia-toned theme designed to reduce harsh blue light and create a cozy reading atmosphere.

Blue Filter: Applies a subtle blue filter to reduce glare and provide a calmer visual experience.

Night Light: A deeper, warmer filter to minimize eye strain in very low-light conditions.

High Contrast Light (HC Light): Maximizes contrast with pure black text on a pure white background, ideal for enhanced visibility.

High Contrast Dark (HC Dark): Provides maximum contrast with pure white text on a pure black background.

Dusk: A soft, high-contrast theme with dark text on a light, off-white background.

Night Sky: A dark, high-contrast theme featuring light text and purple and yellow accents on a black background.

Optimized Fonts:
Select the perfect font for your reading comfort:

System Default: Uses your browser's default font.

Atkinson Hyperlegible: A highly readable font designed to improve character recognition.

JetBrains Mono: A clean, crisp monospace font, excellent for reading code or structured text.

OpenDyslexic: A specially designed font to aid readers with dyslexia by increasing character distinctiveness.

Comic Neue: A fun and approachable font, offering a friendlier alternative to Comic Sans.

Lexend: A variable font designed to improve reading fluency and reduce visual clutter.

Optician Sans: A font designed to be clear and readable.

Google Sans Code: A monospace font well-suited for code and technical text.

Text Adjustments:
Fine-tune your text for ultimate comfort:

Adjust Font Size: Easily increase or decrease text size from 75% to 150% to match your visual needs.

Bold & Italic Toggles: Apply bold or italic styling to body text for added emphasis or personal preference.

How to Use:
Install: Add ReaDeStress to your Chrome browser.

Pin (Recommended): Click the puzzle piece icon in your Chrome toolbar, find "ReaDeStress," and click the pin icon next to it for quick access.

Open: Click the ReaDeStress icon in your toolbar while on any webpage you want to enhance.

Toggle On/Off: Use the main "Enable Enhancement" toggle to instantly apply or remove the effects.

Choose Scope: Select either "Current Tab Only" or "All Tabs" to apply enhancements to one tab or all of them.

Customize: Explore the "Reading Style," "Font Settings," and "Text Adjustments" sections to pick your desired theme, font, size, and style. The changes will apply immediately to your selected tabs.

Enjoy: Your settings will automatically save and, if "All Tabs" mode is active, apply to new pages, providing a consistent, de-stressed reading experience across the web!

Reset: Need a fresh start? Click "Reset All Settings" to return to default preferences.

Give your eyes a break and make online reading enjoyable again with ReaDeStress!