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Colours

Select some words and a small bar of colours appears above them. The A on the format bar opens the same colours.

Colouring words

The bar over a selection

Select words A small bar of colours above some selected words A small bar of colours above some selected words

Press ▉ for a highlight or A for text colour, then pick one of the ten colours. The bar keeps to whichever of the two you used last.

Highlight in one go

Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + H In the note: two words highlighted in amber In the note: two words highlighted in amber

Highlights the selected words in amber. For any other colour, use the bar.

Any colour

+ The colour square, the strip beneath it, recent and starred colours, and the hex box The colour square, the strip beneath it, recent and starred colours, and the hex box

Press + at the end of the bar to open a colour square. Drag it, slide the strip under it, or type a hex such as #e07b5c, then press Apply.

Recent and starred colours

★ Three recent colours, five places for starred colours, and the hex box with its star Three recent colours, five places for starred colours, and the hex box with its star

Under the square, your three most recent colours sit beside up to five starred ones. Press the star by the hex box to star a colour, and right-click a starred colour to unstar it. They are the same in every colour picker.

Take it off

✕ The A menu on the format bar, with Remove colour under the two rows of colours The A menu on the format bar, with Remove colour under the two rows of colours

Select the words and press ✕ in the bar, or Remove colour in the A menu on the format bar.

A colour for a kind of text

Headings, bold and links

Look → Colour In the note: a coral heading, an indigo bold word and a teal note link In the note: a coral heading, an indigo bold word and a teal note link

In Settings, under Text in your notes, pick a row — Headings, Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Note links or Web links — then Text or Highlight, then a colour. It changes how your notes look in Notealise; nothing is written into them.

The ten named colours adjust themselves for light and dark pages. A colour of your own stays exactly as you picked it on both, so check it on each.