I put the colors in so it was easy to see what was going on. Wasn’t sure if you were looking for everything to be the same color or not. Forgot the escaped characters bit. This should take care of the first character after an escape:
.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-hmd-escape-char {
color: var(--color-red);
}
Yeah, if you look in the dev tools, there’s a box with an arrow on the top left ( or cmd+shift+c ). Elements at the top, Styles below. Then poke around at things to get an idea of what is what.
Maybe you’ve see this, but it’s a good resource: