Why Do Medium Highlights Change Colors?
What do they represent?
Have you ever noticed that the highlights on Medium articles have different colors?
When I came here for the first time, there was only one color I could see while highlighting an article.
Green.
I still see green everywhere on Medium from my app, but when I read an article from the web, the colors change.
Sometimes it is light blue.
Sometimes it’s beige.
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So, my question is do the highlighted parts change colors, or have they added different colors to highlight the texts on Medium?
I’m not complaining — it looks pretty like I’m annotating an ebook on Google PlayBooks, except now it’s global.
Also, if I’m not wrong, when a highlight is popular — as in, many readers have marked the same part — it’ll show up in gray with a little number next to it.
I figured that number tells you how many readers highlighted that section.
But the thing is, these colors don’t always appear on my screen. Sometimes, no matter how many articles I read and try to highlight, they always come off as only green.
So, I was curious if each reader who highlights a paragraph or line is assigned their own unique color, or does Medium assign it behind the scenes?
Maybe this is also a little mystery of Medium — kind of like its algorithm.
What about you? Have you ever noticed the colorful highlights on Medium, or is it just me obsessing over the little things?
Do you see different colors when you’re reading on the app or web? Drop a comment and let me know your thoughts.
