Colour-coding segments of a Song - EG: Verse, Chorus etc

[Darug]

Hi, Forgive me, I'm a Noob, and so far have not found if there is a way of doing this, other than changing the colour of the text. I have come from Onsong + Linkesoft, which allowed you to do this. It made it really easy when following a song etc.
Is this currently possible. Verses would be highlighted in Yellow, Choruses in Light Blue, Important Notes in Red.

[arlo]

Are you asking about adding a colored background to text, as opposed to changing the text color? That's not currently possible, but is on my wish list and I'll add a vote for you.

[arlo]

I started working on this with the same highlight colors available on document annotations, which mimic a fluorescent highlighter pen. That works well in the app when using the light color theme, but not in the dark color theme. But it's okay in the dark color theme if I reverse the text color when highlighted. (That would wipe out any custom color applied to that text.) Alternatively, I could use more vivid colors that work pretty well in both color themes. What were you picturing with this?

[davelson]

Please add a vote for this option from me… would make life a lot easier playing in a duo, ie having a different text background for each singer

+1 for the dark screen option 2

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[arlo]

I'm not sure what option you're referring to. I think the options are the pastel colors (which are supposed to look like highlighter pens) with the text color reversed to black in the dark color theme, or the vivid colors, which look good with the default text color in the dark theme but might need the text color reversed in the light theme.

I think I'll experiment with the pastel colors more. Those are the colors used by the PDF annotation function, where I think they work well, but when used in the lyrics they seem odd because they don't match the overall tone of the app design. Real highlighter pens would be brighter and more vivid, so maybe something in between these two options would work.

[arlo]

Here's another way to look at this. In the attached file, the first column is the existing text colors. The second column uses some of those same colors as background colors. I think those all work except the red background with the black text in the light color theme. The third column tones those colors down a bit so they're less vivid but create better contrast with the default text colors. The last column is the highlighter colors from the document annotation function, but with no opacity so they're more vivid. Those don't work with the white text in the dark color theme.

I think this gives us two good options:

1) The toned-down text colors (third column).
2) The highlighter colors (last column) but change the text to black in the dark color theme.

I would lean toward the toned-down text colors to match the overall app color theme, unless you think of this as a "highlight" function, in which case the highlighter colors from the document annotation function would make sense.

[Darug]

I started working on this with the same highlight colors available on document annotations, which mimic a fluorescent highlighter pen. That works well in the app when using the light color theme, but not in the dark color theme. But it's okay in the dark color theme if I reverse the text color when highlighted. (That would wipe out any custom color applied to that text.) Alternatively, I could use more vivid colors that work pretty well in both color themes. What were you picturing with this?

That looks great!

[arlo]

This function is included in the new app and website updates released today. I used the toned-down text colors.

[Darug]

Thank you.