This plugin is currently unmaintained. I might come back to it at some point, but the way it highlights is fragile and steamrolls over other plugins. It needs some serious rearchitecting.
An Obsidian plugin that extends the Obsidian highlight syntax to support custom foreground and background colors.
Install from the community plugin registry or by cloning this repo into your .obsidian/plugins folder and enable the plugin.
To set the color for a highlight, add {foreground;background} before or after the highlighted text, depending on how the plugin is configured. For example:
{#12263A;#06BCC1}==highlighted text==
or
==highlighted text=={#12263A;#06BCC1}
Colors are not limited to hex codes; any valid CSS color will do like hsl, rgb, or even a css variable. However, long color codes or hsl values can be difficult to remember on the fly, so you can also use custom color variables defined in plugin settings with an @:
{@fancyfg;@fancybg}==highlighted text==
To set only the foreground color, do not specify a background color:
{@foreground}==highlighted text==
Similarly, to set only the background color, provide only a background color after a semi-colon:
{;@background}==highlighted text==
Accessed in plugin settings or via the Manage color variables command.
Accessed in plugin settings or via the Manage color palettes command. Palettes act exactly like color variables, except they allow configuring both a foreground and background color. To use them, provide only the palette variable:
{@paletteName}==highlighted text==
Custom color palettes can make use of custom color variables.
I'd welcome any and all PRs for fixes and new features.