Rich text editor UI examples

A document editor needs formatting controls that stay out of the way until they are needed. Our screens show a formatting toolbar above a document with headings, a checklist and a quote, plus live collaborator cursors and a margin comment, giving you a collaborative writing interface to study across eight visual styles for web and mobile. Every example is an original design that comes with its HTML code and a DESIGN.md of colour, type and spacing tokens, in light and dark. Free to use and adapt.

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Web · minimal

Web · editorial

Web · brutalist

Web · luxury

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Web · corporate

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Web · monochrome

Mobile · minimal

Mobile · editorial

Mobile · brutalist

Mobile · luxury

Mobile · playful

Mobile · corporate

Mobile · retro

Mobile · monochrome

Editor toolbar design tips

Group toolbar buttons by purpose, such as text style, lists and insert, with dividers between groups, and move rarely used actions into an overflow menu.
Show the active state of every formatting button for the current selection, so people can see at a glance what is already applied.
Give each toolbar icon a tooltip with its name and keyboard shortcut, because frequent writers learn the shortcuts and rarely reach for the mouse.
Label collaborator cursors with names in distinct colours and fade the label after a few seconds so it does not cover the text.

Questions

Should a text editor use a fixed or floating toolbar?

A fixed toolbar is easier to discover and suits long documents and new users. A floating toolbar that appears on text selection keeps the page clean and suits experienced writers. Many editors combine a minimal fixed bar with a contextual one on selection and slash commands.

Which formatting options belong in an editor toolbar?

Start with headings, bold, italic, links, bulleted and numbered lists, checklists, quotes and image insertion. Add tables, code and alignment only if your users need them. Keep the visible set small and move the rest into a menu or slash command list.

How do you show real-time collaboration in an editor?

Show each collaborator's cursor and selection in a distinct colour with their name, list who is present as avatars near the top and anchor comments to highlighted text in the margin. Keep these cues subtle so they inform without distracting from writing.

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Building with an AI coding agent? Every screen here is also in the free Made Good Designs MCP server: ask Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT to search_ui_screens (e.g. “billing settings, editorial style”), get_ui_flow for a whole journey, and get_ui_screen_code to pull the HTML and DESIGN.md straight into your project.