# New features? colorizing?

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/new-features-colorizing/3350>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 1, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/new-features-colorizing/3350 "2020-02-01T14:43:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_Woodworth](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/jim_woodworth/32/1793_2.png) [@Jim\_Woodworth](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/Jim_Woodworth)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/new-features-colorizing/3350/1 "2020-02-01T14:43:11Z")

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something that I miss in the current implementation is colorizing of fonts and font background. i understand that it is beyond the original idea but I find it very useful in other editors. however those other editors are usually overkill and I definitely do not want to do this in html directly.

my usual use case is for documenting test results. for example, I may have some text where i describe the test and include some colored identifiers.

then I will typically have an sql query that uses those identifiers and some output with some identifiers.

colorizing makes test inspections easier. i really like the light weight nature of markdown.

i am wondering if I am missing something. thanks

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**Author:** ![chrisalley](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/chrisalley/32/906_2.png) [@chrisalley](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/chrisalley)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/new-features-colorizing/3350/2 "2020-02-01T21:58:19Z")

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See [Consistent Attribute Syntax](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/consistent-attribute-syntax/272). If this extension is adopted, you could add a CSS class for rendering text in a different colour or font style.

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**Author:** ![Jim\_Woodworth](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/jim_woodworth/32/1793_2.png) [@Jim\_Woodworth](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/Jim_Woodworth)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/new-features-colorizing/3350/3 "2020-02-01T22:41:17Z")

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thanks Chris. that sounds like it solves several feature requests that could come up.