Instant Smart Quotes

Replace typewriter quotes, apostrophes, ellipses and dashes with their typographically correct counterparts as you type.

What is Instant Smart Quotes?

Instant Smart Quotes is a Chrome extension developed by Florian Zemke, and its main feature is "Replace typewriter quotes, apostrophes, ellipses and dashes with their typographically correct counterparts as you type.".

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Download Instant Smart Quotes Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

                        Instant Smart Quotes is the last extension you will need to write beautiful typographically correct texts.

- Support for over 50 languages
- Quickly enable and disable the instant replacements from the toolbar
- Quickly change the language from the toolbar
- All settings are saved per page and synched across all of your devices
- Text in `backticks` will be ignored in favor of Markdown

Depending on which language you have set, the following chars will be replaced for language-specific replacements (comma-separated):
', ", >>, <<

Chars that will be replaced for no matter which language are the following (comma-separated):
', --, ---, ...

This website is a nice manual for English punctuation guidelines:
http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/

Sources of which quotes to be used for which language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
http://www.witch.westfalen.de/csstest/quotes/quotes.html

`"Don't be dumb"`, “you’re using Instant Smart Quotes”. ✍️                    

Extension Basic Information

Name Instant Smart Quotes Instant Smart Quotes
ID dddflkfjemblhfmjdlmmilapbkdaabcj
Official URL https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/instant-smart-quotes/dddflkfjemblhfmjdlmmilapbkdaabcj
Description Replace typewriter quotes, apostrophes, ellipses and dashes with their typographically correct counterparts as you type.
File Size 17.6 KB
Installation Count 1,179
Current Version 6.0.0
Last Updated 2022-09-12
Publish Date 2020-03-27
Rating 4.24/5 Total 25 Ratings
Developer Florian Zemke
Email [email protected]
Payment Type free
Extension Website https://github.com/Zemke/instant-smart-quotes
Help Page URL https://github.com/Zemke/instant-smart-quotes/issues
Supported Languages en-US
manifest.json
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