Advanced colors and labels

Diviide starts simple: pick a color, then drag a separator. But two Advanced sections in the sidebar go further. One lets you pick any color, not just the presets. The other turns a label into a folder heading. Here is how to use both.

Pick any color

The sidebar shows 18 preset colors. Below them is an Advanced section. Open it and you can pick any color at all, around 16.7 million of them, so you are never limited to the swatches.

There are three ways to choose:

• Point and pick. Drag on the square to set how vivid the color is, then slide the bar below it to pick the hue.
• Type a value. Switch between HEX, RGB, and HSL with the small menu, then enter the numbers directly, or paste in a code like #1d9bf0.
• Grab it from your screen. Click the eyedropper next to the format menu, then click any color you can see, in any app or window, not just this one. Press Escape if you change your mind. The eyedropper shows up in Chrome and Edge; other browsers cannot do this yet, so they simply do not show the button.

Matching an exact color, like a brand shade from a style guide? The eyedropper is usually the fastest way. Click it on the color wherever it appears on your screen. Whatever you pick becomes the color of the next separator you drag.

The same trick can match your browser itself. If you want a separator in the exact shade Chrome paints its own interface, Chrome themes and your bookmarks bar colors lists the default values and shows how to read them from any theme.

Label a separator

A separator does not have to be just an icon. You can give it a text label, which is most useful inside a folder. Inside a folder, bookmarks stack in a vertical list, like a menu, so a plain icon is easy to miss. A labeled separator reads like a heading for the group below it.

To add one:

1. In the sidebar, find the Label section and turn on Include label.
2. Type your text, like Work or Projects.
3. Drag the separator into your folder. It arrives with the label already on it.

Now the separator titles the group, so a long folder splits into clear sections. For the full idea, see how to use bookmark folders.

Format the label

With the label on, an Advanced section appears below the text field. This is where you make the label stand out as a real heading, not just plain text.

Start with a preset. Four one-click looks set everything for you: Dashes wraps the text like <----- Work ----->, Brackets gives you [ Work ], and Blocks or Dots pad it with solid blocks or dots.

Then fine-tune with the controls:

• Fill, the character used to pad the label, like a dash, a dot, or a block. Choose Other to type your own.
• Align, whether the text sits left, center, or right, with the fill around it.
• Prepend and Append, the end-caps that wrap it, like < and >.
• Length, how many characters wide the whole label is.

A live preview shows the result as you go, in the same font your browser uses for bookmarks, so what you see is what you get. Below it, a fit meter warns you when a label is too long. Chrome cuts off long titles sooner on the bookmarks bar and later inside a folder, so a heading that would be clipped on the bar still has room inside a folder. Changed your mind? Reset returns the label to plain.

Next to the preview is a Copy button. It copies the finished label to your clipboard, so you can paste it into a bookmark or separator you already have, instead of typing it out again. Handy when you edit and rename an existing bookmark.