Gradient Text

An Obsidian plugin that paints your notes with gradient colors — headings, bold, italic, wikilinks, external links, and even normal text — using curated preset palettes or a full custom color picker.

Features

• Per-element gradients. Independent control for headings, bold, italic, wikilinks, external links, and normal text.
• Five preset palettes — Green Snake, Midnight Green, Inferno, Underwater, Mystic Purple.
• Full custom color picker with HEX / RGB / HSL inputs, two- or three-stop gradients, and a draggable saturation/hue canvas.
• "None" disables per element so you can keep gradients on headings while leaving body text plain.
• Global on/off toggle plus command palette entries (Disable all gradients, Enable all gradients, Toggle all gradients, Toggle normal text gradient).
• Theme-safe. When disabled, text falls back to your theme's native colors (heading color, link color, etc).
• Works in both Reading view and Live Preview.

Settings

Each element row has:

• A dropdown to pick a preset, Custom, or None.
• Three color dots (visible only in Custom mode) — click any to open the color picker. Right-click the middle dot to remove the optional middle color and use a two-stop gradient instead.
• A reset button (↺) to restore default colors.
• A live preview label on the right so you can see the effect without leaving Settings.

Installation

From the Obsidian Community Plugins (once approved)

1. Open Settings → Community plugins.
2. Click Browse, search for Gradient Text.
3. Install and Enable.

Manual installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Drop them into <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/gradient-text/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins.

Commands

Command	What it does
Gradient Text: Disable all gradients	Turns every gradient off (theme defaults take over).
Gradient Text: Enable all gradients	Restores all gradients.
Gradient Text: Toggle all gradients on / off	Flips the global switch.
Gradient Text: Toggle normal text gradient	Quickly turns the body-text gradient on or off.

Tips

• Gradients on normal text are opt-in (off by default) because they affect every paragraph in the editor.
• Use Custom with a middle color for sharper highlights (e.g. orange → white → red).
• Set an element to None if your theme already styles it nicely and you just want to leave it alone.

License

MIT