It reads the paper, not the words
Inkfold looks at what the stylesheet already decided — backgrounds, text colour, borders, shadows, the weight of the rules between things. It never needs the sentences to do its work.
A reading-room tool for Chrome
Fold any page into a quieter light.
Inkfold re-inks the web in warm paper or carbon ink — the same words, at a temperature you can sit with. It works one domain at a time, remembers what you chose, and reads nothing.
One page, folded — paper on the left, carbon on the right
No. 01
Three folds, no fiddling
Carbon, paper, or let the hour decide. One click each, and the page settles.
No. 02
Every domain keeps its own
Brightness, contrast and sepia are filed against the site and restored on your next visit.
No. 03
Nothing is read, nothing is sent
The folding happens inside the tab. No page text, no URLs, no account, ever.
The method
How Inkfold folds a page
Four small movements, in the half-second before you start reading.
It re-inks. It does not invert
Inversion turns photographs into negatives and mild blue links into something acidic. Inkfold maps each colour to its counterpart in the chosen palette, so the page keeps its hierarchy and its manners.
Pictures keep their own light
Photographs, video, canvases and logotypes are left at their true luminance. Only where an image meets the page does Inkfold soften the seam, so nothing glares at the join.
The fold holds
Your settings are written against the domain and applied on the next visit before the first paint — no white flash, no re-deciding, no drift between one reading and the next.
A page should not have to shout to be read.The Inkfold house rule
Three folds
Carbon, paper, or by the hour
The same three buttons sit at the top of the popup. Whichever you pick applies to the site in front of you.
Smart Dark
carbon
Cream type on warm graphite. The blacks stay slightly open so serifs keep their edges, and headlines don't bloom the way they do on true black.
for low lamps · long evenings
Auto
by the hour
Follows your system preference, or the schedule you set yourself. Pages fold at dusk and unfold at breakfast without you touching anything.
system preference + schedule
Smart Light
paper
Not white — a warm cream ground with carbon ink, for the screens that are simply too bright at noon. The colour of a good paperback under a window.
cream #f4efe6 · ink #1c1915
Per domain
Three dials, filed site by site
Some sites want a little more paper; some want considerably less. Nudge the dials until the page sits comfortably, then leave it — from that point the setting belongs to that domain alone.
- Brightness — 50 to 150. Lift a page printed too dim, or take the edge off one that isn't.
- Contrast — 50 to 150. Loosen hard blacks, or firm up grey-on-grey body text.
- Sepia — 0 to 100. A drop of warmth. Ten per cent is roughly the colour of old paper.
- One domain, paused — if a site would rather be left exactly as its designer made it, switch it off for that site and Inkfold stands down.
The night schedule
A clock for the reading lamp
Name the hours you read in the dark. Inkfold folds at your evening hour and unfolds in the morning, crossing midnight without complaint.
- Two fields, twenty-four hours, no time zones to reason about — it uses the clock already on your machine.
- Nothing is fetched to make this work. It is a clock, not a service.
- Prefer your operating system to decide instead? Leave the schedule closed and choose Auto.
Privacy
The folding happens in your tab
Inkfold is a stylesheet with good manners. It needs to know what a page looks like, not what it says — and it has nowhere to send either.
Never leaves your browser
local- The text, images and markup of any page you visit. Nothing is uploaded, copied or captured.
- The addresses you visit and the order you visit them in. No history is collected.
- Your mode, dials, schedule and paused domains — kept in Chrome's own extension storage on your machine.
- Screenshots. None are taken, of anything, at any point.
Leaves once, anonymously
heartbeat- A single install heartbeat to inkfold-ext.com when Inkfold is added, and one when it is removed.
- It carries the extension version and nothing that identifies you — no name, no email, no advertising identifier.
- It goes to that one domain and nowhere else. There is no third-party analytics inside the pages you read.
- It is how we count how many people are reading with Inkfold. That is the whole of it.
No account, no sign-in, no newsletter to escape. If you uninstall Inkfold, Chrome removes your settings with it. The full text lives in the privacy policy.
Install
Fold your first page in about four seconds.
Add Inkfold, open something long, and choose carbon or paper. If it isn't quieter, remove it — we'll not ask why, though you're welcome to tell us.
Free · Chrome 106 and later · No account