diff --git a/public/.eslintrc.js b/public/.eslintrc.js
index 77cd2c0db..608175c06 100644
--- a/public/.eslintrc.js
+++ b/public/.eslintrc.js
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ module.exports = {
     FilePicker: false,
     ot: false,
     MediaUploader: false,
-    hex2rgb: false,
     num_loaded: false,
     Visibility: false,
     inlineAttachment: false
diff --git a/public/docs/release-notes.md b/public/docs/release-notes.md
index 2fad1a254..a6cc80720 100644
--- a/public/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/public/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - Fix error that Libravatar user avatars were not shown when using OAuth2 login
 - Fix `bin/manage_users` not accepting numeric passwords (thanks to [@carr0t2](https://github.com/carr0t2) for reporting)
 - Fix visibility of modals for screen readers
+- Fix missing inline authorship colors (thanks to [@EBendinelli](https://github.com/EBendinelli) for reporting)
 
 ### Enhancements
 - Libravatar avatars render as ident-icons when no avatar image was uploaded to Libravatar or Gravatar
diff --git a/public/js/index.js b/public/js/index.js
index 716477c51..de2a35221 100644
--- a/public/js/index.js
+++ b/public/js/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* eslint-env browser, jquery */
 /* eslint no-console: ["error", { allow: ["warn", "error", "debug"] }] */
 /* global Cookies, moment, serverurl,
-   key, Dropbox, hex2rgb, Visibility */
+   key, Dropbox, Visibility */
 
 import TurndownService from 'turndown'
 import CodeMirror from 'codemirror/lib/codemirror.js'
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import Idle from 'Idle.Js'
 import '../vendor/jquery-textcomplete/jquery.textcomplete'
 
 import { ot } from '../vendor/ot/ot.min.js'
+import hex2rgb from '../vendor/ot/hex2rgb'
 
 import { saveAs } from 'file-saver'
 import randomColor from 'randomcolor'
diff --git a/public/vendor/ot/hex2rgb.js b/public/vendor/ot/hex2rgb.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..176a0f2fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/vendor/ot/hex2rgb.js
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+function hex2rgb (hex) {
+  if (hex[0] == '#') hex = hex.substr(1)
+  if (hex.length == 3) {
+    var temp = hex
+    hex = ''
+    temp = /^([a-f0-9])([a-f0-9])([a-f0-9])$/i.exec(temp).slice(1)
+    for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) hex += temp[i] + temp[i]
+  }
+  var triplets = /^([a-f0-9]{2})([a-f0-9]{2})([a-f0-9]{2})$/i.exec(hex).slice(1)
+  return {
+    red: parseInt(triplets[0], 16),
+    green: parseInt(triplets[1], 16),
+    blue: parseInt(triplets[2], 16)
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = hex2rgb