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Ink Journal

by xyndox
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Description

This theme supports Dark Mode
This theme supports Light Mode

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Ink Journal

A pen-on-paper theme for Obsidian: handwriting fonts, wobbly ink outlines and scribbled heading rules, in light and dark. Two values, ink and paper, plus one pen colour for what's active or done.

Ink Journal in light mode

Ink Journal in dark mode

Install

From Obsidian: Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage, search for Ink Journal, then Install and use.

By hand: download manifest.json and theme.css from the latest release into <vault>/.obsidian/themes/Ink Journal/, then pick Ink Journal under Settings → Appearance → Themes.

Leave the text, interface and monospace font settings empty, because they override the theme's handwriting fonts.

Plugin support

The theme also styles many community plugins, including Dataview, Tasks, Kanban, Calendar, Excalidraw, Notebook Navigator and Make.md. Plugins it doesn't cover keep working and use the theme's colours where they rely on Obsidian's variables.

Note helpers

  • cssclasses: dashboard lays a note out as outlined cards.
  • cssclasses: daily centres headings and, combined with a weekday class such as monday, adds a tally mark.
  • Top-level folders with a numbered prefix (000 , 200 to 900 in hundreds, 999 ) get their own hand-drawn glyph in the file list.

Build from source

theme.css is generated, so edit the parts instead:

File Contents
theme.src.css tokens (--jr-*), editor and core UI
plugins-nav.css workspace, navigation and toolbar plugins
plugins-content.css note content and view plugins
snippets.css note helpers
fonts.css embedded fonts 
./build.sh                                # writes theme.css
JOURNAL_VAULT=/path/to/vault ./build.sh   # also installs into that vault

License

The theme is under the MIT License. It embeds Kalam and Patrick Hand, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

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