Text color and effects

You can color selected text, apply a rainbow gradient, or render it with an animated visual effect (fire, aurora, plasma). This isn't part of standard markdown; it's a syntax Tsunagi adds on its own.

Syntax

[text]<color glow-type glow-color>

Inside [...] you put the text you want to color; inside <...> you put one or more space-separated keywords. Order doesn't matter: the parser figures out what each keyword means on its own.

Solid colors

You can use a named color or a hex code:

[This text is red]<red>
[This text is a custom shade]<#FFD700>

Named colors: red, deeporange, orange, amber, yellow, lime, lightgreen, green, teal, cyan, lightblue, blue, indigo, purple, deeppurple, pink, brown, bluegrey, white, grey (or gray), black, transparent, and tsunagi (the app's own brand teal). A hex code can be written as #RGB, #RRGGBB, or #AARRGGBB.

Rainbow text

There are four variants:

[Colored per character]<rainbow>
[Continuous gradient]<crainbow>
[Animated, per character]<mrainbow>
[Animated, continuous gradient]<cmrainbow>

You can apply any of them in reverse by adding r to the front: rrainbow, rcrainbow, rmrainbow, rcmrainbow.

Shader text (animated)

Three GPU shader effects render with real-time animation:

[Flaming text]<fire>
[Northern lights effect]<aurora>
[Plasma effect]<plasma>

Glow

Adds a glow around the text; it can be combined with a text color:

[White text, steady cyan glow]<white glow #00E5FF>
[Text with a pulsing orange glow]<pglow #FF6D00>

glow is steady, pglow pulses. Both accept a color right after them.

There are also rainbow and shader glow variants: per-character rainbow glows (rglow, mrglow, prglow, mprglow) and continuous-gradient rainbow glows (crglow, cmrglow, cprglow, cmprglow) (m = animated, p = pulsing), plus shader glows (fireglow, auroraglow, plasmaglow). These too can be reversed with the r prefix.

Combinations

Text color and glow can be used together, and can also combine with markdown formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough, underline):

[**Bold flaming text**]<fire fireglow>
[Animated rainbow with a plasma glow]<mrainbow plasmaglow>

It can be used inline within a sentence, and inside blockquotes and list items too.

Reset

The nocolor keyword resets everything, returning the text to its default color.

Tips

• Shader text (fire/aurora/plasma) and animated glows are animated in real time, so they carry an extra rendering cost. If a note has dozens of shader-text spans, performance can suffer, so use them sparingly.
• The tsunagi color name gives you the app's own brand teal (#37C8DD); it's a fun detail worth knowing.