diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d5ef405b7a913..ce49e1cb23dc9 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ Standard library changes
 * The new `@styled_str` string macro provides a convenient way of creating a
   `AnnotatedString` with various faces or other attributes applied ([#49586]).
 
+#### JuliaSyntaxHighlighting
+
+* A new standard library for applying syntax highlighting to Julia code, this
+  uses `JuliaSyntax` and `StyledStrings` to implement a `highlight` function
+  that creates an `AnnotatedString` with syntax highlighting applied.
+
 #### Package Manager
 
 #### LinearAlgebra
diff --git a/deps/checksums/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting-4110caaf4fcdf0c614fd3ecd7c5bf589ca82ac63.tar.gz/md5 b/deps/checksums/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting-4110caaf4fcdf0c614fd3ecd7c5bf589ca82ac63.tar.gz/md5
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5e99f7453cfe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/checksums/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting-4110caaf4fcdf0c614fd3ecd7c5bf589ca82ac63.tar.gz/md5
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+08230d0801fda3c81927d558452215e4
diff --git a/deps/checksums/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting-4110caaf4fcdf0c614fd3ecd7c5bf589ca82ac63.tar.gz/sha512 b/deps/checksums/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting-4110caaf4fcdf0c614fd3ecd7c5bf589ca82ac63.tar.gz/sha512
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..16d15cdef3104
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/checksums/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting-4110caaf4fcdf0c614fd3ecd7c5bf589ca82ac63.tar.gz/sha512
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0386841dcf30ee53f7f95dd3206e1208482507d157aa09739873de2a56e5ca3d7bbf27eccd9f4ed81c1c0fea229673475f6454fe94df0ff960563ca4c29ed36c
diff --git a/pkgimage.mk b/pkgimage.mk
index 83c66bd94c702..3c741db2c2202 100644
--- a/pkgimage.mk
+++ b/pkgimage.mk
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ $(eval $(call stdlib_builder,Printf,Unicode))
 $(eval $(call stdlib_builder,Random,SHA))
 $(eval $(call stdlib_builder,Tar,ArgTools,SHA))
 $(eval $(call stdlib_builder,DelimitedFiles,Mmap))
+$(eval $(call stdlib_builder,JuliaSyntaxHighlighting,))
 
 # 2-depth packages
 $(eval $(call stdlib_builder,LLD_jll,Zlib_jll libLLVM_jll Artifacts Libdl))
diff --git a/stdlib/.gitignore b/stdlib/.gitignore
index ce744aa43d9f5..93668857189af 100644
--- a/stdlib/.gitignore
+++ b/stdlib/.gitignore
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 /Distributed
 /StyledStrings-*
 /StyledStrings
+/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting-*
+/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting
 /*_jll/StdlibArtifacts.toml
 /*/Manifest.toml
 /*.image
diff --git a/stdlib/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting.version b/stdlib/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting.version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4a819d056e70e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting.version
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+JULIASYNTAXHIGHLIGHTING_BRANCH = main
+JULIASYNTAXHIGHLIGHTING_SHA1 = 4110caaf4fcdf0c614fd3ecd7c5bf589ca82ac63
+JULIASYNTAXHIGHLIGHTING_GIT_URL := https://github.com/julialang/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting.jl.git
+JULIASYNTAXHIGHLIGHTING_TAR_URL = https://api.github.com/repos/julialang/JuliaSyntaxHighlighting.jl/tarball/$1
diff --git a/stdlib/Makefile b/stdlib/Makefile
index 1c8a2849d75f1..ebc40c9db2b12 100644
--- a/stdlib/Makefile
+++ b/stdlib/Makefile
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ STDLIBS = Artifacts Base64 CRC32c Dates FileWatching \
           $(JLL_NAMES)
 
 STDLIBS_EXT = Pkg Statistics LazyArtifacts LibCURL DelimitedFiles Downloads ArgTools \
-              Tar NetworkOptions SuiteSparse SparseArrays StyledStrings SHA Distributed
+              Tar NetworkOptions SuiteSparse SparseArrays StyledStrings SHA Distributed \
+              JuliaSyntaxHighlighting
 
 $(foreach module, $(STDLIBS_EXT), $(eval $(call stdlib-external,$(module),$(shell echo $(module) | tr a-z A-Z))))
 
diff --git a/stdlib/stdlib.mk b/stdlib/stdlib.mk
index 696b24a8f8bf1..eeb0e085c8790 100644
--- a/stdlib/stdlib.mk
+++ b/stdlib/stdlib.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ STDLIBS_WITHIN_SYSIMG := \
 
 INDEPENDENT_STDLIBS := \
 	ArgTools Base64 CRC32c Dates DelimitedFiles Distributed Downloads Future \
-	InteractiveUtils LazyArtifacts LibGit2 LibCURL Logging Markdown Mmap \
-	NetworkOptions Profile Printf Pkg REPL Serialization SharedArrays SparseArrays \
-	Statistics StyledStrings Tar Test TOML Unicode UUIDs \
+	InteractiveUtils JuliaSyntaxHighlighting LazyArtifacts LibGit2 LibCURL Logging \
+    Markdown Mmap NetworkOptions Profile Printf Pkg REPL Serialization SharedArrays \
+    SparseArrays Statistics StyledStrings Tar Test TOML Unicode UUIDs \
 	dSFMT_jll GMP_jll libLLVM_jll LLD_jll LLVMLibUnwind_jll LibUnwind_jll LibUV_jll \
 	LibCURL_jll LibSSH2_jll LibGit2_jll nghttp2_jll  MozillaCACerts_jll MbedTLS_jll \
 	MPFR_jll OpenLibm_jll PCRE2_jll p7zip_jll Zlib_jll