Rainbow Highlight

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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

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

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse
Search for Rainbow Highlight
Click Install, then Enable

Manual Installation

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

Colors

Color	Preview
Yellow
Green
Blue
Pink
Purple
Orange