Bases Tag Colors

Bring life to your tags. Per-base. No global mess.

Obsidian Bases has zero native pill colors. Bases Tag Colors fixes that — each .base file gets its own color palette stored in a sibling .colors.json. Colors follow the file. Nothing bleeds between bases.

Features

• Per-base palettes — each .base file gets a sibling .colors.json
• Visual settings UI — color picker, hex input, search bar. No manual JSON editing
• Live in 100ms — edit the color, real time update
• Auto base detection — automatically detects your active base

Installation

Community Plugin Store (recommended)

1. Open Obsidian → Settings → Community Plugins
2. Search Bases Tag Colors
3. Install and enable

Manual

1. Download main.js, styles.css, manifest.json from the latest release
2. Drop them into .obsidian/plugins/bases-tag-colors/
3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins

How to use

1. Open any .base file
2. Go to Settings → Bases Tag Colors
3. Your active base is auto-selected — click Import from active base
4. Tweak colors with the built-in picker

Config format

Colors live in a sibling file next to your .base:

{
  "version": 1,
  "columns": {
    "*": {
      "B-Roll": "#78b7b8",
      "VFX": "#9a5cb8"
    },
    "note.status": {
      "Done": "#3a8c5c"
    }
  }
}

• "*" — applies to any column in this base
• "note.status" — applies only in that specific column (wins over *)

Save the file — colors update live, no restart needed.

Commands

Migrating from colored-bases-properties

Open your base → Settings → select it → click Import from active base.
The old plugin's data.json is read-only — nothing is modified.

Rollback: disable this plugin → all injected colors and DOM changes revert automatically.

Known limitations

• Single-value (non-array) cells not colored
• No embedded base support (![[Base.base]])

Uninstall

Disable the plugin — all injected colors revert automatically.
Your .colors.json files remain in the vault (harmless). Delete manually if desired.

Made by Oleg Brovchenko