Rainbow Highlight

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
Green
Blue
Pink
Purple
Orange

License

MIT