Alas, not. The reason is a bit silly. I can enable text-colors in our editor, but this has the unintended side-effect of now copying over the text-color from wherever you are copying your text from, even the shade of black that that other program uses, which is hard to spot, but ends up looking kind of unsettling on LessWrong. Since the vast majority of posts are just written in normal “black-or-grey on white” text colors, the cost of that seemed larger than the ability to allow people to use colored text.
Eventually we could probably do something clever, like filtering out grey shades of text when you copy-paste it into the editor, but I haven’t gotten around to that, though PRs are always welcome.
Alas, not. The reason is a bit silly. I can enable text-colors in our editor, but this has the unintended side-effect of now copying over the text-color from wherever you are copying your text from, even the shade of black that that other program uses, which is hard to spot, but ends up looking kind of unsettling on LessWrong. Since the vast majority of posts are just written in normal “black-or-grey on white” text colors, the cost of that seemed larger than the ability to allow people to use colored text.
Eventually we could probably do something clever, like filtering out grey shades of text when you copy-paste it into the editor, but I haven’t gotten around to that, though PRs are always welcome.