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March

by sakurastral
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Description

This theme supports Dark Mode
This theme supports Light Mode

README file from

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March

March Cover

March is a colorful, accent-aware theme for Obsidian with soft surfaces, playful typography, and a focused writing experience. It supports both light and dark mode and stays close to Obsidian's native behavior while giving notes and the surrounding interface a distinct visual rhythm.

Features

  • Warm light and accent-tinted dark appearances
    • March Cover
    • March Cover
  • Optional Catppuccin and Nord color schemes
  • Color-coded headings with configurable size, alignment, color, and indicators
  • Refined links, highlights, bold and italic text, blockquotes, callouts, embeds, tables, and horizontal rules
  • Code blocks with line numbers and configurable colors
  • Alternate task states for done, canceled, in progress, planned, and review
  • An optional colorful frame layout, compact pinned tabs, and file-type icons
  • Styling for Obsidian Bases and small compatibility refinements for selected community plugins
  • Extensive customization through the Style Settings plugin

Installation

Community Themes

Once March is available in the Obsidian Community Themes gallery:

  1. Open Settings → Appearance.
  2. Next to Themes, select Manage.
  3. Search for March.
  4. Select Install and use.

BRAT

You can install the latest version directly from GitHub with BRAT:

  1. Install and enable BRAT from Settings → Community plugins.
  2. Open Settings → BRAT → Beta Themes List.
  3. Select Add Beta Theme.
  4. Enter https://github.com/sakurastral/obsidian-march-theme.
  5. Select Add Theme, then enable March from Settings → Appearance.

BRAT follows the repository's latest theme files, so beta builds may change more frequently than Community Themes releases.

Manual installation

  1. Download manifest.json and theme.css from the latest release.
  2. Create <vault>/.obsidian/themes/March/.
  3. Place both files in that folder.
  4. Reload Obsidian and select March in Settings → Appearance.

Style Settings

March works without additional plugins, but the Style Settings community plugin unlocks its customization controls.

  1. Install and enable Style Settings from Settings → Community plugins.
  2. Open Settings → Style Settings.
  3. Expand one of the March sections.
Section Available controls
March Theme - Color Scheme Default, Catppuccin, and Nord schemes; palette, surface, text, and formatted-text colors
March Theme - Editor Headings, links, checkboxes, code blocks, blockquotes, callouts, embeds, and horizontal rules
March Theme - Layout Frame style, title bar and tab colors, scrollbar width, spacing, pinned tabs, and font ligatures

Alternate checkboxes

March includes visual states for the following task markers:

Markdown State
- [ ] To do
- [/] In progress
- [p] Planned
- [r] Review
- [x] Done
- [-] Canceled

The planned and review icons can be enabled or disabled in Style Settings.

Image helpers

Add a fragment to an Obsidian image embed to apply these built-in helpers:

Effect Markdown
Center an image ![[image.png#center]]
Crop an image to a circle ![[image.png#circle]]

Integrations

March includes targeted styles or css helper classes for:

These integrations are optional and are not bundled with the theme.

Development

npm ci
npm run build

Use npm run watch while editing files in src/ to rebuild theme.css automatically.

Feedback

If you find a styling issue or have a suggestion, please open an issue. When reporting a problem, include your Obsidian version, operating system, enabled CSS snippets, and steps to reproduce it.

Credits

March includes ideas or adapted techniques from the following projects and communities:

See the comments in src/ for more specific source references.

License

March is released under the MIT License.

Sponsors