Claude Warm

Claude Warm

A warm, quiet theme for Obsidian with soft ivory surfaces, charcoal depth, and a restrained warm-gold accent system.

Claude Warm is inspired by Claude's calm, low-contrast interface: comfortable enough for long writing sessions, structured enough for dense vaults, and polished enough for a professional workspace.

Design language

Features

• Light and dark color schemes tuned as a matched pair
• Warm backgrounds with restrained contrast for long-form reading and editing
• Warm-gold accents for links, tags, selections, and focused controls
• Softer sidebars, tabs, menus, modals, tables, callouts, and code blocks
• Alternate task checkboxes for the community status syntax, in Live Preview and reading view
• No remote fonts or external assets in the theme CSS

Install

From Obsidian

Claude Warm is available in the Obsidian community theme directory:

To install from Obsidian:

1. Open Obsidian Settings.
2. Go to Appearance.
3. Next to Themes, click Manage.
4. Search for Claude Warm and click Use.

Manually

1. Create a folder named Claude Warm in your vault at .obsidian/themes/.
2. Copy manifest.json and theme.css into that folder.
3. Restart Obsidian.
4. Go to Settings -> Appearance -> Themes and choose Claude Warm.

Alternate checkboxes

Task markers other than a blank box or x pick up the community alternate-checkbox syntax used by Minimal and the Alternative Checkboxes Reference Set. The marks are original drawings in the Claude Warm palette. The theme does not include Lucide, Heroicons, or other third-party icon artwork.

Reading view and Live Preview both show the mark. Source mode keeps the characters as typed. - [ ], - [x], and - [X] stay the theme's normal checkbox.

Canceled tasks are muted and struck through. The other statuses keep normal task text and change only the checkbox.

These rules are wrapped in a style query on --theme-alternative-checkboxes. They apply while that variable is enable (the theme default). The Reference Set snippet sets it to disable, so that snippet still replaces the built-in marks. A snippet of your own can do the same:

body {
  --theme-alternative-checkboxes: disable;
}

The style query needs a current Obsidian installer. On an older WebView the extra statuses fall back to the normal checked checkbox. Plain to-do and done checkboxes do not depend on it.

Palette

Development

Claude Warm keeps the source intentionally small. Most of the theme is built from Obsidian CSS variables, with a few light selectors for surfaces that need a softer shape.

Files worth knowing:

Run the local validator before release:

node scripts/validate-theme.mjs

Regenerate the 512 x 288 preview image:

node scripts/generate-screenshot.mjs

Release

Releases are created by GitHub Actions when a version tag is pushed.

1. Update manifest.json and versions.json to the new version.
2. Commit the change.
3. Create and push a tag that exactly matches manifest.json, for example:

git tag 1.0.0
git push origin 1.0.0

4. GitHub Actions creates a draft release and uploads manifest.json and theme.css.
5. Review the generated release notes, then publish the draft.

Feedback

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Screenshots are especially helpful for UI bugs, since many theme problems depend on plugins, panes, and operating system settings.

License

MIT