diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3952ad2..80d25bd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
         ],
         "configuration": "./language-configuration.json"
       }
+    ],
+    "grammars": [
+      {
+        "language": "jref",
+        "scopeName": "source.jref",
+        "path": "./syntaxes/jref.tmLanguage.json"
+      }
     ]
   },
   "workspaces": [
diff --git a/server/src/definition.ts b/server/src/definition.ts
index 2158133..24976e5 100644
--- a/server/src/definition.ts
+++ b/server/src/definition.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 import path from 'path';
 import { URI } from 'vscode-uri';
 
-import { DefinitionParams, DefinitionLink, TextDocuments, Range } from 'vscode-languageserver/node';
+import { DefinitionParams, DefinitionLink, Range } from 'vscode-languageserver/node';
 import { TextDocument } from 'vscode-languageserver-textdocument';
-import { JRefSymbol, SymbolTable } from './visitor';
-
-interface ServerContext {
-  documents: TextDocuments<TextDocument>;
-  documentSymbols: WeakMap<TextDocument, SymbolTable>;
-}
+import { JRefSymbol } from './visitor';
+import { ServerContext } from './utils';
 
 const defaultTargetRange: Range = {
   start: { line: 0, character: 0 },
diff --git a/server/src/semanticTokens.ts b/server/src/semanticTokens.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a56f6e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/semanticTokens.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import {
+  SemanticTokensBuilder,
+  SemanticTokens,
+  SemanticTokensParams,
+} from 'vscode-languageserver/node';
+import { ServerContext } from './utils';
+
+export const tokenTypes = ['function'];
+
+const tokenToIndex = Object.fromEntries(tokenTypes.map((type, index) => [type, index])) as Record<
+  string,
+  number
+>;
+
+export function handleSemanticTokens(
+  params: SemanticTokensParams,
+  context: ServerContext,
+): SemanticTokens {
+  const { documents, documentSymbols } = context;
+  const document = documents.get(params.textDocument.uri);
+  if (!document) return { data: [] };
+  const tokensBuilder = new SemanticTokensBuilder();
+
+  const symbols = documentSymbols.get(document);
+  if (!symbols || symbols.size === 0) return { data: [] };
+
+  const refs = Array.from(symbols.values()).filter((symbol) => symbol.isReference);
+  for (const ref of refs) {
+    const valueNode = ref.node;
+    const valuePosition = document.positionAt(valueNode.offset);
+
+    // Highlight the value string
+    tokensBuilder.push(
+      valuePosition.line,
+      valuePosition.character,
+      valueNode.length,
+      tokenToIndex['function'],
+      0,
+    );
+  }
+
+  return tokensBuilder.build();
+}
diff --git a/server/src/server.ts b/server/src/server.ts
index b0e3559..3447b5e 100644
--- a/server/src/server.ts
+++ b/server/src/server.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ import { Node, ParseError, parseTree } from 'jsonc-parser';
 import { createParseErrorDiagnostic } from './diagnostics';
 
 import { onDefinition } from './definition';
-import { JRefSymbol, SymbolTable, visit } from './visitor';
+import { SymbolTable, visit } from './visitor';
+import { handleSemanticTokens, tokenTypes } from './semanticTokens';
 
 // Create a connection for the server, using Node's IPC as a transport.
 // Also include all preview / proposed LSP features.
@@ -28,6 +29,13 @@ connection.onInitialize((params: InitializeParams) => {
     capabilities: {
       textDocumentSync: TextDocumentSyncKind.Incremental,
       definitionProvider: true,
+      semanticTokensProvider: {
+        legend: {
+          tokenTypes,
+          tokenModifiers: [],
+        },
+        full: true,
+      },
     },
   };
   return result;
@@ -53,6 +61,10 @@ function sendDiagnostics(document: TextDocument, parseErrors: ParseError[]) {
 
 connection.onDefinition((params) => onDefinition(params, { documents, documentSymbols }));
 
+connection.languages.semanticTokens.on((params) =>
+  handleSemanticTokens(params, { documents, documentSymbols }),
+);
+
 // Make the text document manager listen on the connection
 // for open, change and close text document events
 documents.listen(connection);
diff --git a/server/src/utils.ts b/server/src/utils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6986815
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/utils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { TextDocuments } from 'vscode-languageserver/node';
+import { SymbolTable } from './visitor';
+import { TextDocument } from 'vscode-languageserver-textdocument';
+
+export interface ServerContext {
+  documents: TextDocuments<TextDocument>;
+  documentSymbols: WeakMap<TextDocument, SymbolTable>;
+}
diff --git a/syntaxes/jref.tmlanguage.json b/syntaxes/jref.tmlanguage.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33298e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/syntaxes/jref.tmlanguage.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "scopeName": "source.jref",
+  "injectionSelector": "L:source.json",
+  "patterns": [
+    {
+      "include": "source.json"
+    }
+  ]
+}