Colors

Color text in Obsidian with a hex-based markup syntax. The note stores a plain hex, so what renders is what is written: live preview, reading mode and PDF export all draw the same inline color.

~={#fb464c} colored text $x_{n}^2$ =~
~={#027aff}you can even ~={#e0de71}color=~ text inside colored text =~

Features

• Hex-in-the-note markup: ~={#rrggbb}colored text=~ — no configuration attached, notes render the same on any machine
• Identical rendering in live preview, reading mode and PDF export (all three share one style definition, by construction)
• Name-to-hex palette: menus and the command suggester show names, notes always receive the hex
• Typing a palette name by hand (~={yellow}) is rewritten to its hex the moment the token completes
• Interactive delimiter: a small color swatch in front of the visible hex (VS Code style), with a hover menu to change or remove the color
• Rendered LaTeX inside colored text is colored too
• Lean by design: no themes, no per-id formatting, no generated CSS

Usage

Syntax

~={#ff8800} This text uses that color =~
~={#0f8}    Short form works too =~
~={#ff880080} So does an alpha channel =~

Colors nest, and rendered LaTeX inside a colored section is colored too.

Applying color

• Select text, right click → Color submenu: palette names, Custom... picker, remove
• Commands: Change text color (palette suggester), Apply custom color (hex), Apply latest color, Remove text color
• Press Tab at the end of a colored section to jump out of it

Settings

The palette is a simple list of name → hex rows: recolor, rename, reorder, delete. Names are menu labels only; they never enter your notes.

Installation

Not yet in the community plugin directory. Until then, install via BRAT with this repository's URL, or copy main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release into .obsidian/plugins/colors/.

About this fork

A lean fork of Fast Text Color by Leon Holtmeier. The markup syntax and the lezer grammar carry over; rendering was rebuilt hex-only, and themes, per-id formatting, keybinds and the floating color menu were removed by design. There is no separate migration layer: notes written with the original ~={id} markup render whenever a palette entry carries that name, and editing such a token rewrites it to its hex. Licensed GPL-3.0, like the original.

How it works

A custom lezer parser integrates the coloring syntax with Obsidian's editor; reading mode walks the rendered blocks. All coloring is applied as inline styles derived from the hex in the markup.