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Rainbow Highlight

norman-lawyernorman-lawyer83 downloads

Beautiful multi-color text highlighting with a quick color palette popup.

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A beautiful multi-color text highlighting plugin for Obsidian.

Select any text and instantly apply highlights from a quick color palette popup — just like highlighting in a real book.

Features

  • Quick Color Palette — Select text and a floating color picker appears instantly
  • 6 Vibrant Colors — Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, Purple, Orange
  • Format Preserving — Works with bold, italic, strikethrough text
  • Remove Highlight — One-click to remove any highlight
  • Dark Mode Support — Colors adapt to light and dark themes
  • Command Palette — Each color also available as a command for keyboard shortcuts

How to Use

  1. Select any text in your note
  2. A color palette popup appears near your selection
  3. Click a color to apply the highlight
  4. Click ✕ to remove an existing highlight

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

  1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse
  2. Search for Rainbow Highlight
  3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual Installation

  1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
  2. Create a folder rainbow-highlight in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
  3. Copy the three files into that folder
  4. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Colors

Color Preview
Yellow #fef3c7
Green #d1fae5
Blue #dbeafe
Pink #fce7f3
Purple #ede9fe
Orange #ffedd5

License

MIT

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Highlight selected text with a floating color palette and choose from six colors that adapt to light and dark themes. Preserve bold, italic, and strikethrough formatting, remove highlights with one click, and access each color via the command palette.
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Details
Current version
1.0.0
Last updated
Last month
Created
Last month
Updates
1 release
Downloads
83
Compatible with
Obsidian 0.15.0+
Platforms
Desktop, Mobile
License
MIT
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Author
norman-lawyernorman-lawyer
github.com/Norman-lawyer
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  1. Community
  2. Plugins
  3. Annotation
  4. Rainbow Highlight

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