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Bases Tag Colors

by Oleg Brovchenko
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This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff. Color your Bases tags per-base. Each .base file owns its palette — no global tag soup.

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Bases Tag Colors

Bring life to your tags. Per-base. No global mess.

Preview

Obsidian Bases has zero native pill colors. Bases Tag Colors fixes that — each .base file gets its own color palette stored in a sibling .colors.json. Colors follow the file. Nothing bleeds between bases.

Features

  • Per-base palettes — each .base file gets a sibling .colors.json
  • Visual settings UI — color picker, hex input, search bar. No manual JSON editing
  • Live in 100ms — edit the color, real time update
  • Auto base detection — automatically detects your active base

Installation

Community Plugin Store (recommended)

  1. Open Obsidian → Settings → Community Plugins
  2. Search Bases Tag Colors
  3. Install and enable

Manual

  1. Download main.js, styles.css, manifest.json from the latest release
  2. Drop them into .obsidian/plugins/bases-tag-colors/
  3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins

How to use

  1. Open any .base file
  2. Go to Settings → Bases Tag Colors
  3. Your active base is auto-selected — click Import from active base
  4. Tweak colors with the built-in picker

Config format

Colors live in a sibling file next to your .base:

{
  "version": 1,
  "columns": {
    "*": {
      "B-Roll": "#78b7b8",
      "VFX": "#9a5cb8"
    },
    "note.status": {
      "Done": "#3a8c5c"
    }
  }
}
  • "*" — applies to any column in this base
  • "note.status" — applies only in that specific column (wins over *)

Save the file — colors update live, no restart needed.

Commands

Command What it does
Open color config for current base Opens the .colors.json (creates skeleton if missing)
Seed config from current base values Walks visible pills, pre-fills placeholder colors
Reload color config Manual refresh without reopening the base
Migrate from colored-bases-properties Copies your old colors into this base's own JSON

Migrating from colored-bases-properties

Open your base → Settings → select it → click Import from active base.
The old plugin's data.json is read-only — nothing is modified.

Rollback: disable this plugin → all injected colors and DOM changes revert automatically.

Known limitations

  • Single-value (non-array) cells not colored
  • No embedded base support (![[Base.base]])

Uninstall

Disable the plugin — all injected colors revert automatically.
Your .colors.json files remain in the vault (harmless). Delete manually if desired.

Made by Oleg Brovchenko

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