# Unable to customize the syntax highlight colors

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-customize-the-syntax-highlight-colors/22140>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [December 4, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-customize-the-syntax-highlight-colors/22140 "2019-12-04T02:31:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-customize-the-syntax-highlight-colors/22140/4 "2019-12-04T12:40:21Z")

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The tips from @jkboxomine are correct. I just want to add that while the settings pygmentsCodeFences etc. works, I reorganized all of this in Hugo 0.60:

You can see the default config here:

> **[Configure Markup](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration-markup#highlight)**
>
> How to handle Markdown and other markup related configuration.

In short:

- Highlighting in code fences is now default on
- Default is to use inline styles (as in no stylesheet needed)

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