diff --git a/Source/NimbleCommander/NimbleCommander/Resources/SyntaxHighlighting/Main.json b/Source/NimbleCommander/NimbleCommander/Resources/SyntaxHighlighting/Main.json
index eb0832d0e..0d1be33d2 100644
--- a/Source/NimbleCommander/NimbleCommander/Resources/SyntaxHighlighting/Main.json
+++ b/Source/NimbleCommander/NimbleCommander/Resources/SyntaxHighlighting/Main.json
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
             "settings": "JSON.json",
             "filemask": "*.json"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "Markdown",
+            "settings": "Markdown.json",
+            "filemask": "*.md, *.markdown"
+        },
         {
             "name": "YAML",
             "settings": "YAML.json",
diff --git a/Source/NimbleCommander/NimbleCommander/Resources/SyntaxHighlighting/Markdown.json b/Source/NimbleCommander/NimbleCommander/Resources/SyntaxHighlighting/Markdown.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e6c04299b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Source/NimbleCommander/NimbleCommander/Resources/SyntaxHighlighting/Markdown.json
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{
+    "lexer": "markdown",
+    "wordlists": [],
+    "properties": {
+        "lexer.markdown.header.eolfill": "1"
+    },
+    "mapping": {
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_DEFAULT": "default",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_LINE_BEGIN": "default",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_STRONG1": "number",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_STRONG2": "number",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_EM1": "comment",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_EM2": "comment",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_HEADER1": "keyword",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_HEADER2": "keyword",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_HEADER3": "keyword",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_HEADER4": "keyword",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_HEADER5": "keyword",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_HEADER6": "keyword",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_PRECHAR": "default",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_ULIST_ITEM": "preprocessor",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_OLIST_ITEM": "preprocessor",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_BLOCKQUOTE": "identifier",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_STRIKEOUT": "operator",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_HRULE": "default",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_LINK": "string",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_CODE": "string",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_CODE2": "string",
+        "SCE_MARKDOWN_CODEBK": "string"
+    }
+}