Atelier

⌖ Atelier

An excavation journal for your notes.

A documentary-editorial Obsidian theme — aged parchment & deep excavation dark, a single copper accent, and the antiquarian elegance of IM Fell English, Spectral, and Caveat marginalia.

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What it is. Atelier turns plain Markdown into something that reads like a printed monograph — hero banners, museum plates, ledger tables, illuminated quotes, infoboxes and handwritten margins — all from ordinary Obsidian callouts. One copper accent, two paper modes, zero plugins required for the look.

✦ Two papers

Switch with Obsidian's normal light/dark toggle — the whole palette pivots on one set of --at-* tokens.

✦ What you get

• A card system — hero · skill · section · step · profile · honor · channels, composed in > [!grid|colsN], reflowing on resize.
• Editorial elements — infoboxes, ledger/boxed tables, illuminated/gloss/tablet quotes, museum figure plates, ornamented dividers.
• Margin annotations — seal · folio · marg casts that drop the box and sit in the page, in Caveat handwriting.
• 26 emotion casts — stamps, flags, tablets and tags for every semantic callout.
• Inline typography — at-kicker · at-lead · at-display · at-stat · at-mark · at-badge for magazine openers without a single plugin.
• Style Settings — accent, fonts, width, roundness, per-element default styles, and entrance animations, all from one panel.

✦ Install

From Obsidian (once published) — Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage → search Atelier.

Manually — copy manifest.json + theme.css into <vault>/.obsidian/themes/Atelier/, then select Atelier under Settings → Appearance.

Requires Obsidian 1.5.0+. Install the Style Settings plugin to customise everything. Bundled Google Fonts (IM Fell English · Spectral · Fira Code · Caveat) need internet on first load — flip "Use system fonts" in Style Settings for offline/mobile.

✦ Sixty-second start

> [!card|hero dark spanfull]
> ###### RENAISSANCE · FLORENCE → MILAN → AMBOISE
> # The man who would *know everything*.
> One continuous study of the whole world.

> [!grid|cols2]
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>> [!card]
>> ###### 01 · LIFE
>> ### Life & Times
>> Vinci to Amboise — the workshops and the courts.
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>> [!card]
>> ###### 02 · ART
>> ### The Paintings
>> The Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, and sfumato.

> [!quote|illum] Leonardo da Vinci
> Learning never exhausts the mind.

That's three of Atelier's elements. There are dozens more.

✦ The element cookbook

Every component, one file at a time, with copy-pasteable syntax — in examples/:

Callouts · Cards · Grids & Columns · Infobox · Tables · Code · Quotes · Figures · Dividers · Text utilities · Emotion casts · Structural casts

✦ Customising

Settings → Style Settings → Atelier — accent & full palette, font dropdowns, note width, roundness, default card/infobox/tag/heading styles, body size, and entrance animations.

✦ Credits

• Aesthetic: 18th-century excavation journals & antiquarian print.
• Fonts: IM Fell English, Spectral, Fira Code, Caveat (Google Fonts).
• License: MIT.