gavinmn/obsidian-theme

Gavin's Obsidian snippets

Apply these snippets on top of the default Obsidian theme.

To use snippets, add the .css files to yourvault/.obsidian/snippets/ and then go into the Obsidian Appearance preferences and toggle them on.

Snippet functionality

Accent colors

(These are snippets so they can be adjusted for light vs dark mode)

• accent-blue.css uses Apple's Blue accent colors
• accent-yellow.css uses Apple Notes' accent colors

The accent color snippets are mutually exclusive in use.

UI cleanup

• pickiness.css, cleanup.css makes minor UI changes to reduce visual clutter. Note this does hide the file directory sort options because I don't use them. Delete lines 10–12 of cleanup.css to show them.

Tabs

• safaritabs.css offers Safari style UI tabs on macOS
• square-tabs.css offers Figma style UI tabs on macOS

The tab snippets are mutually exclusive in use.

Mobile

• mobile.css provides iPhone specific changes
• ipad.css provides iPad specific changes (these still need work...)

Misc

• faint-yaml.css is pretty particular—it minimizes the diaply of YAML frontmatter in a very opinionated and pretty fragile way. Disclaimer is this might not work for you at all if you use a lot of YAML. My use for it is to take frontmatter that includes only the created date in a specific format, and display it as shown below:

• sidebar-redesign.css cleans up the sidebar a bit and removes a lot of UI detail on Mobile
• sf-symbols.css replaces the Obsidian checkmark svg with the SF Symbols checkmark
• highlight-color.css changes the highlight color to a teal
• code-color.css changes inline code styling to use blue