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Horo

by kuingsmile
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Description

This theme supports Dark Mode
This theme supports Light Mode

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Horo · 賢狼

Wheat fields, amber eyes, apples and moonlight.

An Obsidian theme inspired by Holo (Horo), the Wisewolf of Yoitsu from Spice and Wolf. Warm parchment, glowing amber, soft blush and hand-drawn wheat. It aims to be cute without getting in the way of your writing.

Horo in dark and light mode

Highlights

  • Six palettes: three light and three dark, each with its own personality.
  • Character art and harvest ornaments: Horo welcomes you on every new tab with flowing copper hair, red eyes and a rose-pink tunic. A wheat field grows at the foot of the file explorer, and dividers become wheat ears around a crescent moon.
  • Storybook typography: a gradient note title with a wheat-sprig flourish, serif headings, and a fading underline on level-two headings.
  • Harvest-coloured details: nested bullets in wheat, blush, leaf and moon colours; marker-pen highlights; pill tags; and rounded, gently striped tables.
  • Custom callouts: horo, apple, wheat, coin, moon, wine and journey, plus restyled built-in callouts.
  • Alternate checkboxes: a dozen task states, including apples, paw prints and silver coins.
  • Paper grain: a barely-there texture over the workspace that you can switch off.
  • Respects your accent colour: pick any accent in Settings → Appearance and links, headings, buttons and the active file all follow it.
  • Style Settings support: switch palettes and toggle every ornament.

Palettes

The six palettes

Mode Palette Mood
Light Wheat Harvest (default) Warm parchment and amber
Light Apple Blossom Rosy and sweet
Light Snowy Tail Clean white with amber, like the tip of her tail
Dark Moonlit Cocoa (default) A warm night by the fire
Dark Ember Hearth Deep red embers
Dark Northern Night Indigo sky over Yoitsu, with golden moonlight

Choose palettes with the Style Settings plugin. Without it, Horo uses Wheat Harvest and Moonlit Cocoa.

The wisewolf on your empty tabs

Horo reaching out on an empty tab, in dark and light mode

Tasks and callouts

Alternate checkboxes and callouts

Callouts

> [!horo] The wisewolf speaks
> Those who hesitate lose their chance to buy apples.
Type Colour Icon
horo, wolf, wisewolf Amber Paw print, plus a paw watermark
apple Apple red Apple
wheat, harvest Wheat Wheat
coin, ledger, trade Copper Coins
moon, night Moon blue Moon
wine, ale Dusk Wine glass
journey, road, map Leaf Map

All of Obsidian's built-in callouts (note, tip, warning and the rest) are restyled to match.

Alternate checkboxes

Syntax Meaning Syntax Meaning
- [x] Done - [*] Star
- [/] In progress - [a] Apple
- [-] Cancelled - [w] Wolf / paw print
- [>] Forwarded - [$] Coin / money
- [<] Scheduled - [i] Info
- [!] Important - [?] Question

Installation

From Obsidian: once Horo is listed in the community themes, open Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage, search for Horo, then install it and select it.

Manually:

  1. Create the folder <your vault>/.obsidian/themes/Horo/.
  2. Copy theme.css and manifest.json from this repository into it.
  3. Select Horo in Settings → Appearance → Themes.

Style Settings

Install the Style Settings plugin to tune the theme:

Section Option
Palettes Light palette, dark palette
Ornaments Paper grain, gradient headings, wheat ornaments, wheat field, Horo on empty tabs
Lists & files Paw-print bullets, single-colour bullets, harvest-coloured folders
Editor & typography Active-line highlight, storybook serif body text, readable line length, display font

Fonts

Horo does not download fonts. It uses these fonts when they are installed and falls back gracefully when they are not:

Role Preferred fonts Fallback
Title and headings 1–3 Fraunces, Cormorant Garamond, Playfair Display, Noto Serif SC / JP Georgia
Interface and text Nunito, Quicksand, M PLUS Rounded 1c, Hiragino Maru Gothic System UI font
Code JetBrains Mono, Cascadia Code, Fira Code System monospace

For the full storybook look, install Fraunces and Nunito. You can also set any font yourself in Settings → Appearance → Font.

Credits

  • Holo and Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料) are the creations of Isuna Hasekura, illustrated by Jū Ayakura. Horo is an unofficial fan theme and is not affiliated with the original work or its publishers.
  • The artwork in this theme (the peeking wolf, wheat field, ornaments and task icons) was drawn for Horo as inline SVG.
  • Callout icons come from Lucide, which ships with Obsidian.
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