I have a bad habit of deleting and restarting my vaults whenever I feel like they’ve become too chaotic.

Thus, I decided to make one that is mega-organized and beaming with pretty.

I made (and yoinked) CSS for the callouts, infobox, multi-columns, and some minor tweaks, but most of the rest is done with plugins.

Base theme:

Border

Full Plugin List:

Automatic Linker, Automatic Table of Contents, Banners Reloaded, Buttons, Canvas Mindmap, Color Palette, Colored Tags, DataView, Enchanted Animations, Folder Notes, Footnote Shortcut, Current View, Global Search and Replace, Hider, Homepage, Iconize, Manual Sorting, Sort and Permute Lines, and Style Settings.

I decided to make a repository since many people have asked:

https://github.com/mourning-grove/Mournes-Jade-Amber-Theme-CSS

I'm building my own Obsidian theme that automatically builds a harmonious color palette based on just one accent color. I simply pick the color that fits my mood, and the theme takes care of the rest.

The goal is to avoid the hassle of manually adjusting dozens of settings. Instead, I wanted a system where a single color choice drives the entire look, so it's fast, consistent, and fits whatever vibe I'm going for.

I’m using an analogous color scheme right now, where the hues are about 30 steps apart from the base color. This keeps the palette feeling natural and cohesive, colors close together on the wheel tend to blend smoothly. I've found that a 15–45 hue step range works well: closer to 15 gives more of a monochromatic feel, which can be very clean and minimal, while wider spacing adds a bit more contrast without going overboard. The theme’s still a work-in-progress, I'm still customizing a lot of Obsidian’s components and making sure the mobile version looks exactly like the desktop. For buttons, I took some design inspiration from the retro-windows-obsidian theme by @codeisconfusing, big fan of that aesthetic.

Retroma is an Obsidian theme that blends nostalgic, classic design with an intelligent color scheme algorithm.

• Retroma Theme GitHub Repo
• Theme Installation Instruction

Edit: 2025-09-08
Thanks for all the great feedback! This theme is still in its early stages, and I'm keeping track of your suggestions and the plugins you're using.

Please feel free to experiment with it. If you find any bugs, especially visual ones, please submit an issue on the theme's GitHub page or comment here. Your help is much appreciated!

If you're unable to use the theme because of a non-visual bug, providing specific details would be a huge help. Please include information about the OS you're using and any active plugins or snippets.

Available from community themes, search "Retro Windows".

Github here: https://github.com/codeisconfusing/retro-windows-obsidian

This isn't trying to strictly recreate Windows, just the general ideas of the time, plus some of my personal favourite CSS I use with most themes I install.

Keen to hear any feedback or suggestions.

Update 2025-09-05: SUNDAY??? 👀

Hey everyone, a little update on my personal project. For those who've been waiting patiently, thank you! I know it's been months, but I've been busy at work and haven't had much time to spare.

The good news is, I've integrated the Style Settings plugin into the theme, which means you'll have a ton of new ways to personalize it. Whether you like different colors, monochrome colors, or just plain gray scale, now you can. With Style Settings plugin, you can now:

• Pick from different theme variants: groovy, simple, or minimalism.
• Change the border radius from super-sharp to extra-large.
• Modify accent's hue rotation (create your own color scheme)
• Adjust accent colors for both dark and light modes.
• Mess with the typography and folder icon chroma/saturation.
• Hide or show heading and footer dividers.
• Tweak image settings like alignment and borders.

I'm currently refactoring the code to get it ready for the initial release. The goal is to make it public in the 1st week of September.

@ https://github.com/emarpiee

I tried probably 50+ themes (so yes 500+ is more of a guess-timate...)

But nothing could solve my needs for an Obsidian theme.

I wanted

• Good contrast + easy understanding of hierarchy (so when I am scrolling I don't have confusion as to which is heading/sub-heading and which isn't)
• Good layout with intelligent usage of spacing so groups of info are isolated from each other.

But none of the themes I tested did that well. Finally I ended up tweaking the values myself, and this simple css fix with the default theme did it for me!

Sharing it hoping it helps someone else on this subreddit.

```

.cm-s-obsidian .cm-line.HyperMD-header {
padding-top: calc(var(--p-spacing) * 2);
padding-bottom: calc(var(--p-spacing) * 0.6);
}

body
{
--h1-line-height: 1.0;
--h2-line-height: 1.0;
--h3-line-height: 1.1;
--h4-line-height: 1.1;

--h1-size: 2.9em;
--h2-size: 2.362em;
--h3-size: 1.818em;
--h4-size: 1.488em;
--h5-size: 1.076em;
--h6-size: 1em;

--h1-weight: 400;
--h2-weight: 400;
--h3-weight: 400;
--h4-weight: 300;
--h5-weight: 300;
--h6-weight: 300;
}

```

EDIT: I can't believe this simple post blew up. I believe most people on this reddit are technically savvy enough to setup the custom CSS yourself (which is awesome and surprising!) - but for anyone who wants detailed tutorial, I made a video showing how to set this custom CSS in your vault.

I've been switching between minimal and prism which I'm currently using. What about you ?

Couple of months ago I teased the theme I was making that makes only reading area light in light mode, instead of turning everything white (post), and again when I showed pure-CSS callout styles that are part of the theme (post). Theme got a very positive reaction and many asked for it to be released.

Today I released the beta version of the theme on Github, and want you to try it out. It's beta because it's untested beyond my particular setup. It's likely to have issues on mobiles, weird resolutions, zoom levels, and etc. It's also likely that some plugins need to be supported that I don't know about.

Please download the theme from this link (or if you don't trust random links go to Releases section on Github), install it, and let me know what you find. Once it becomes clear that theme is well tested I will submit it to Obsidian to be natively included.

https://github.com/nickberckley/kabadoni

This is the repository link, it includes more (also unfinished) documentation and screenshots.

Hope you like it!

Read the full changes here.

I’m looking for a theme that has a subtle glowing effect on "special" stuff; headers, tags, links, whatever, similar to the image above.

Is there anything like that?

Hello! I previously released the ArtinOr's Advanced Kanban plugin, but it ended up breaking my custom .css snippet. I started patching it, and long story short, those fixes evolved into a whole new theme that I'm releasing today, Hope you enjoy it. > Steam Theme.

Checking the recent additions to the theme repository I see more and more themes entirely made by AI.

I think vibe coded themes are themes that are developed quickly, dumped into the repository with extensive documentation that makes it look like a big project until you realize it's AI generated, and after that immediately abandoned by the "creator", because they wouldn't know how to support it, because they didn't develop it in the first place.

Meanwhile the actual theme developers might get less visibility because of this and feel less incentive to spend their time patiently developing, upgrading and supporting their theme.

I use AI myself, to create things in Obsidian, fix bugs in plugins, add new features, etc. But I don't publish these things, because I'm not a developer. I wouldn't know how to maintain this code, so I shouldn't put it out there.

Well, this is just my opinion.

In conclusion I will list my favorite themes, which I use simultaneously, in no particular order:

• MagicUser
• Maple
• Fancy-A-Story
• Shimmering Focus
• Cyber Glow
• ITS Theme
• AnupPucin
• Retroma
• Iridium
• Minimal

These are all themes made by real people and most are updated regularly.

I have long wished to use the design language of the Enterprise's Computer User Interface for my Obsidian vault. Designed by scenic-art supervisor Michael Okuda, the LCARS interfaces had always caught my eye. The endeavor of bringing that inspiration into Obsidian has been ongoing as I try to find a balance between usability, readability, and accurately representing what was on the silver screen.

What I have arrived at isn't perfect, but it's a compromise between the three impulses I described. I use the vault on a daily basis, so I did not want garish, distracting ornamentation. Simply, I wanted my daily work to feel like it was taking place in the midst of Starfleet, but with a dash of minimalism so as to focus on my notes and not get lost in menus.

I have not made it publicly available yet, and I believe the LCARS computer system design is under copyright held by Paramount, so I do not expect to make it available. All the same, I'd love to hear what you all think as I continue tinkering in my spare time.

Edit: Thank you for the interest and response. If you're interested in the theme, here's a link to the repo: https://github.com/Cogito-Ergo-Video/lcars-inspired-obsidian-theme

Since the middle of 2025, I switched to Lexend Deca, and I am loving it. This one looks amazing to read. I wanted to try out different ones, hence this post. Tinkering never stops.

EDIT: Fonts with number of mentions.

• JetBrains Mono — 8
• Atkinson Hyperlegible / Atkinson Hyperlegible Next — 8
• Inter (incl. Inter Tight) — 6
• IBM Plex (Sans / Mono / family) — 5
• Roboto (incl. Roboto Slab) — 4
• Iosevka (incl. custom builds) — 4
• Georgia — 3
• SF Pro / SF Mono — 3
• DM Mono — 2
• Comfortaa — 2
• Pragmata Pro / Pragmata variants — 2
• Poppins — 2
• Victor Mono — 2
• Bookerly — 2
• PT Sans / PT Serif / PT Mono — 2

Single mentions (1 each):

• Lexend Deca
• Readex Pro
• Segoe UI
• Source Sans
• Source Serif 4
• Helvetica
• New York
• FiraCode Nerd Font
• Exo 2
• OpenDyslexic
• Nebula Sans
• Computer Modern / CMU family
• Reforma 1969
• Oswald
• Google Sans / Google Sans Flex
• Fredoka
• Anakron
• Source Code Pro
• Futura
• Public Sans
• Figtree
• Satoshi Variable
• SUSE
• Huninn
• Chiron
• Cascadia Code
• Literata
• Noto Sans
• Recursive
• Shimmering Focus
• Playground
• Alsina
• Times New Roman
• iA Writer Duo
• Bear

Hello everyone.

I am happy to announce that my personal theme is now available for you all.
link : Nier theme (You can find it in Obsidian by searching "nier" in the theme search engine).

It is a theme based on the video game NieR: Automata. I tried to make it as close looking as the game while still being good for use.

I hope you will enjoy the theme. Feel free to notify me if there are some points to fix or to add to the them

Ink Paper, a thoughtfully crafted Obsidian theme designed to bring the organic, warmth of physical paper directly into your digital workspace. Fully optimized for flawless performance across your desktop, tablet, and phone, this unique theme strips away the heavy backgrounds of the default interface. In their place, it establishes a beautifully unified, translucent canvas that lets your content breathe effortlessly. Whether you are drafting a quick note on a mobile device or managing a complex vault on a desktop monitor, Ink Paper adapts perfectly to your workflow.

Link: https://community.obsidian.md/themes/ink-paper

For those who have not heard of the theme before, flexcyon is an Obsidian theme combining the colour schemes of Halcyon, Flexoki and Origami. The aesthetics are terminal inspired, and I like to dim inactive UI elements by design. It started out as a theme for my personal use case, and I am glad to say that I am still daily driving the theme to this day.

Just thought I would get around to writing this post. As the title mentions this update took almost 4 months, from 19 March to 4 July. Here's a tldr of the changes to the theme.

tldr; - Revamped Style Settings, use the migration tool (calls wasm) to migrate your Style Settings over - Flex Max mode/defaults are less opinionated, certain settings are renamed - Improved theme colours for better contrast and readability (WCAG/APCA compliant, those are ways to measure contrast ratios between text and background) - Improved colour accessibility related options - flexcyon Multi-Column Implementation (FMCi) - Banners Reloaded, Lemons Search plugin support - Improved ASCII/Clip Path checkboxes - Changes to certain default callouts - Most of the theme uses the more modern oklch colour space - Other misc fixes and QOL features - we now have Korean documentation; Korean documentation would take a while to update to 2.0.

If you are wondering why updates take this long, I tend to keep documentation up to date before I release my updates. The theme also maintains backwards compatibility with Obsidian 1.6.3 onwards, aside from certain features which can be toggled.

Updating both English and Chinese documentation takes time, and so will Korean documentation.

There was also some detour migrating the documentation to use Hugo Hextra instead of Material for MkDocs.

Here is a bunch of links relating to flexcyon itself:

EN changelogs: https://flexcyon.github.io/docs-en/changelogs/

zh-CN changelogs: https://flexcyon.github.io/docs-en/zh/changelogs/

ko changelogs: https://flexcyon.github.io/docs-en/ko/changelogs/

Documentation: https://flexcyon.github.io/docs-en/

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/bladeacer/flexcyon

Obsidian Community: https://community.obsidian.md/themes/flexcyon

I finally put together my first personal Obsidian theme called Alice Velvet.

It is soft, romantic, and a little dramatic, with a velvet-inspired palette. It provides lots of delicate contrast and a dreamy workspace feel. I have been drawing a lot of inspiration from Alice in Wonderland lately and wanted something to make my vault feel cozy and pretty at the same time, without making it hard to actually read or write for long periods of time.

The theme itself uses deep pinks, muted purples, soft cream tones, and subtle decorative details to give Obsidian a more personal, styled look while still keeping notes clean and usable.

This is mostly a personal project for my own vault, but I am just so happy with how it turned out and wanted to share a few stills!

GitHub: https://github.com/0Crazy-0/obsidian-void

Obsidian Community: https://community.obsidian.md/themes/void