Shimmering Focus brings a distinctive visual hierarchy to headings and inline text that makes long notes easier to scan and navigate. Alternating accent colors, subtle background highlights, and Live Preview level indicators all work together to make heading levels immediately distinguishable at a glance. Every aspect of this system is configurable via the Style Settings plugin.Documentation Index
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Heading Colors
Headings use an alternating color scheme by default:- Odd levels (H1, H3, H5) are rendered in the theme’s
--alt-heading-color. - Even levels (H2, H4, H6) are rendered in the standard text color.
no-alternating-header-colors) in Style Settings.
Heading Backgrounds
Each heading in both Source Mode and Reading View receives a subtle background fill using the--bg4 color variable, with a thin border and a small border radius. This frames headings as visual anchors within the note body.
To disable heading backgrounds entirely, enable Headings: Disable background (no-heading-background) in Style Settings.
Live Preview Level Indicators
In Live Preview mode, headings that are not on the current active line display a small monospace level indicator (H1, H2, … H6) to the left of the heading text. This makes heading levels readable even when the # formatting characters are hidden by Live Preview’s render.
To disable these indicators, enable Headings: No level indicators in live preview (no-lp-heading-level-indicator) in Style Settings.
Heading Typography Settings
The following settings control the font and layout of all headings:| Setting | Style Settings ID | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Font family | font-heading-theme | "Optima", "Recursive S" | Any font family string |
| Font size multiplier | heading-scaling | 1× | 0.5× – 1.5× |
| Letter spacing | heading-letter-spacing | 1.5px | -2px – 3px |
1 creates a more condensed note, while values above 1 are useful on large screens or for presentation-style notes.
The heading font defaults to Optima (a system font on macOS) with Recursive S as a fallback. If Optima is not available on your system, Recursive S — which is embedded in the theme — will be used automatically.
Inline Text Styling
Beyond headings, Shimmering Focus applies intentional color to common inline markup:Bold text
Bold text is rendered in the accent color by default. Disable with Uncolored bold (
uncolored-bold) in Style Settings.Italic text
Italic text is rendered in a secondary accent color. Disable with Uncolored italic (
uncolored-italic) in Style Settings.Strikethroughs
Strikethrough text appears in red by default. Disable with Uncolored strikethroughs (
uncolored-strikethroughs) in Style Settings.Highlights
Highlighted text (==like this==) uses a yellow hue by default. The exact hue is adjustable with the Color tone of highlights (highlight-hue-1) slider in Style Settings, which accepts any hue value from 0 to 360 in steps of 5.
Inline Title
The inline title (the large note title displayed at the top of each note in the editor) uses the same heading font, weight, and letter-spacing as H1. An additional toggle — Hide inline title when more than one tab (hide-inline-title-when-more-than-one-tab) — is available for users who find it redundant when tab labels are already showing the file name.