Change the background color to help visualize color codes in remarkup text.
Proposed syntax: Just the plain hex color code, wrapped in curly brackets. That is, the most standard html/css color syntax, hash mark followed by 3 or 6 hex digits.
So, for example: {#0000ff} would render exactly like inline monospace text, resulting in #0000ff but with a background color that matches the literal color code specified.