Can't catch the ForeColor command anymore, tinymce 4.1.4
Tinymce used to fire an event for the text-color-change, if you ran: tinymce.activeEditor.on('execCommand', function() {console.log(arguments);} ) you would see the execCommand ForeColor, ran whenever the text color is changed. If you look in TinyMCE-Textcolor plugin, it doesn't seem to have any execCommands or any way to detect when text-color changes. The TextColor plugin no longer fires the execCommand event because since this commit it directly uses the Formatter infrastructure . So you cannot get your old event. However you can use the formatChanged on the formatter to provide a callback: