Overview
FontGoblin is a browser extension for inspecting text styles and visible colors on the page you choose. It works on your device. It does not have an account, analytics, advertising, or a service that receives your inspected data. This policy also covers the separate, optional website feedback form, which sends only the information you choose to submit.
What FontGoblin reads
After you choose Start inspecting, FontGoblin can read computed CSS text styles, relevant background styles, and up to 80 characters of text from an element you click. This includes supported text, search, email, and telephone fields if you inspect them. The selected text or field value can contain personal information, such as a name, email address, or telephone number. These snippets are used only for the preview and recent picks on your device. Password fields are excluded. It also reads the element's tag, ID, and classes to identify it and build a selector. When you choose Copy selector, FontGoblin checks that selector against the current element within its page, same-origin frame, or open shadow root before copying it.
While inspection is active, FontGoblin uses the current pointer position and selected element in tab memory to identify the target and position the tooltip. It responds to clicks, scrolling, and inspection-control keys to operate the inspector. It does not keep an interaction history, record a sequence of typed keys, or send these interactions to a server. The separately saved panel position and minimized-navigation record are described below.
When you click text, FontGoblin displays its styles and a sample of that text in the inspector. It can compare two picks and keeps up to five recent selections in the tab's memory. When you exit or reload the page, those selections and the comparison are cleared. The editable preview text you type is also kept only in the open tab. For a determinable solid CSS color pair, FontGoblin estimates text contrast; it shows Unavailable when the background is uncertain. This estimate is not a full rendered-page accessibility audit.
If you use the screen color picker, Chrome's native EyeDropper returns one displayed sRGB pixel color to FontGoblin. FontGoblin shows it in the panel until you exit. The picker does not take or upload a screenshot.
What is saved
FontGoblin stores your interface preferences, default color format, and Start inspecting choice in Chrome's local extension storage. It also saves the panel's x/y position when Remember panel position is enabled. These settings stay on your device across tabs and browser sessions. Inspected text, CSS details, recent selections, comparison picks, and picked colors are not saved to extension storage.
While minimized and with restoration enabled, FontGoblin temporarily stores the tab ID, website origin (scheme, host, and port), and paused state in Chrome's session storage so the small launcher can return after same-origin navigation. This record is removed when you expand or exit, close the tab, leave that origin, or end the browser session. Full page addresses and inspected text are not included.
Optional website feedback
If you choose to use the feedback form, your category, title, message, and any optional name, email address, browser, or extension version you enter are sent to Charan’s website and stored in its MySQL database. The submission also records a reference, consent-notice version, and submission time. You can send feedback without a name or email address. Nothing is posted publicly.
Charan uses these submissions to review bug reports, plan improvements, and respond when you provide contact details. The extension does not automatically attach inspected text, CSS details, or screenshots to website feedback. Please leave out passwords, private page content, and other sensitive information.
The form uses an essential session cookie and a temporary form token to protect submissions. Tokens are valid for up to one hour. The application does not add IP addresses or automatically collected browser identification strings to feedback records; the hosting provider may keep ordinary web access and security logs.
Feedback is retained for review, support, and improvement planning. To ask for removal, email contact@ravulacharan.com and include your submission reference if available. This website feedback handling is separate from the extension’s local inspection data described above.
Your choices
You can decline the first-use notice by closing the panel. Pause stops inspection. Minimize collapses the panel to a small launcher and suspends hover inspection by default, without changing your manual Pause choice. You can enable Keep inspecting when minimized in Settings. Launcher restoration after permitted same-origin navigation works independently of this choice. Settings also let you choose hover details, highlighting, page-click protection, launcher restoration, saved position, recent picks, and a default color format. Turning Keep recent picks off clears its in-tab history and stops adding recent selections. Clear comparison removes the saved A pick; Exit clears selections held in that tab. Restore defaults turns inspection while minimized OFF, the other seven switches ON, and the default color format to HEX. Updating preserves your saved preferences. You can remove saved preferences, position, and consent by clearing FontGoblin's extension data in Chrome or uninstalling the extension. The user guide explains each control.
Chrome Web Store Limited Use
FontGoblin's use of information received from Google APIs complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. Data is used only to provide the font and color inspection features described here.
Changes and contact
If FontGoblin's data practices change, this policy and the extension's disclosure will be updated before the new practice begins. For privacy questions, use the FontGoblin contact page to reach Charan.