Awesome proposal. Couldn’t be happier. 
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Thanks for the quick turnaround on this, Bear team!
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Could you let me know when this will be updated? I can’t wait to use the default color again. The new color feels depressing. I only need default please 
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Can I add a design criteria?
I’m sure many users screenshot text items from other apps into Bear. I personally paste zillions of clipped screenshots from Kindle into Bear, and nearly all of these have Kindle highlighted passages.
So what I have been hoping is that Bear’s highlighting will look like the highlighting in Kindle. So that my highlighting looks the same whether it is in Kindle or Bear, and that highlighted text in clipped Kindle items in my Bear notes looks just like the Bear highlighted text above and below it.
This also goes for one’s overall UI across apps. Like it or hate it, Kindle is ubiquitous, and I’d like to have the same look & feel for highlighting in Bear as I do in Kindle, as I pretty much spend my time switching between the two.
PS. ditto for the colors - I want to have exactly the same palette of highlight colors in Bear as I do in Kindle, for conformity across the two please.
@trix180 As a power user of Bear (9500 notes, 101G bytes, 5 languages, work and private) I follow these discussions about highlichting etc with interest.
But please developing team, don’t let these discussions take away your attention from more important things like Panda, a web application and maybe splitting Bear in workspaces ( tbe Archive can than be a workspace with its own tags).
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Uh…no. For two reasons:
- what if Kindle highlighting changed? Are you arguing that Bear’s UI should be dictated by Amazon’s design team?
- Bear is, if not a Mac-assed Mac app, at least an “Apple-assed Apple app”. I regularly use Bookends, Highlights, DevonThink and Ulysses. While their highlighting isn’t identical to each other, each is broadly consistent with the Apple platform as a whole. Bear’s highlighting should be what looks good on Apple devices.
Now, having the ability to customise the highlighter colours so that you could match your Kindle’s colours and I could do what I liked…now that’s a suggestion I could endorse.
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Love it.
I was just going to complain about the current implementation. Defaulting to green is ugly in most themes I use. It has downgraded all my notes. Having nice themes is a major reason I use bear in the first place.
Please release this soon!
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Update is great, thanks a lot!! Love the updated highlighter settings/appearance (not only the default colour, but also the other colours look way nicer now with improved text contrast)
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The old (and improved!) default highlighter is back now! Check App Store to update 
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@zowiewho Thank you!! Amazing 
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Thank you so much for the last update 
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Thank you for being so responsive to feedback, and for giving me back my nice D.Boring yellow highlights! The new colours look good too: not colouring the text looks much more like a highlight. Thanks again!
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I found two problems with the new highlighting implementation. The first one is definitely somehow related to german localisation as it doesn’t appear in English version. The second problem however appears also in English version but at same time in german version it is also connected to german localisation in a weird way. Here a short description before a video starts:
Problem 1 (0:00 - 0:22)
You can see two different popups. When using “==” markdown syntax the pop up appears in english. A German pop up however appears when clicking on the pencil inside an already marked piece of text. The latter popup is furthermore messed up. Rather than “Default” (in German “Standard”) the pop up starts with the German word for green “grün”. However, where it should say “grün” (second entry in pop up menu), it says “green” as english word.
Problem 2 (0:23 - 0:44)
In main menu “Default” is missing. Furthermore when I apply “grün” either by main menu or by hotkey (shift cmd m) the wrongly named default colour is chosen for highlighting as you can see in the pop up.
Thank you very much. Those issues will be fixed with the next update.
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I’m having a similar issue…
I use custom app specific keyboard shortcuts for each of the various highlighter colors in bear…
the missing “default” highlighter in the main menu system seems to be creating problems with my keyboard shortcuts where when I use my shortcut for green the default highlighter color for the theme is getting applied instead of the green (as seen in the screen capture below)
In english version all the names of the highlight colours are correct in the newest test flight version. However the German version still has flaws. Here some screenshots.
When using markdown syntax the names are correct:
When using pencil symbol or style bar the default colour is called “grün” (green):
And last but not least in the main menu menu even an English name appears:
thanks @krssno. My bad, I forgot to check the localizations already in place when you reported this.
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I changed the shortcut to use Yellow, and then I wanted to change it back to Default to try it with the adjustments. I can’t figure out how to change the keyboard shortcut back to Default.
BTW I can’t really tell the difference between blue and purple with most themes still.
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