diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/syntax/SketchTextArea.java b/app/src/processing/app/syntax/SketchTextArea.java
index 8ff329a5f..fbd9e0c7c 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/syntax/SketchTextArea.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/syntax/SketchTextArea.java
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ public class SketchTextArea extends RSyntaxTextArea {
     setSyntaxTheme(TokenTypes.COMMENT_EOL, "comment1");
     setSyntaxTheme(TokenTypes.COMMENT_KEYWORD, "comment1");
     setSyntaxTheme(TokenTypes.COMMENT_MARKUP, "comment1");
+    setSyntaxTheme(TokenTypes.COMMENT_MULTILINE, "comment2");
     setSyntaxTheme(TokenTypes.LITERAL_BOOLEAN, "literal_boolean");
     setSyntaxTheme(TokenTypes.LITERAL_CHAR, "literal_char");
     setSyntaxTheme(TokenTypes.LITERAL_STRING_DOUBLE_QUOTE, "literal_string_double_quote");