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Zacess High Contrast

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Description

This theme supports Dark Mode
This theme supports Light Mode

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Zacess High Contrast for Obsidian

Zacess High Contrast Light and Dark in Obsidian, showing the file explorer, a note with a heading, a highlight, an underlined link, a quote, a list and tags, then the graph view with a focused note, a tag node, an attachment node and an unresolved note

An Obsidian theme with Zacess High Contrast Light for light mode and Zacess High Contrast Dark for dark mode, the highest contrast a screen can give. Black on white by day and white on black at night, with a yellow accent in the dark. Obsidian's own Base color scheme setting switches between the two, so no plugin is needed.

The colours match the Zacess reader's contrast themes, so a page looks the same in the reader and in your vault. The other three pairs are their own themes: Zacess, Zacess Cream and Zacess Deep Contrast.

Install

Download zacess-high-contrast-obsidian-<version>.zip from the latest release, put manifest.json and theme.css in a folder named Zacess High Contrast inside your vault's .obsidian/themes/ folder and choose Zacess High Contrast under Settings, Appearance, Themes. Once the theme is in Obsidian's community directory it can also be installed from Settings, Appearance, Manage by searching for Zacess High Contrast.

What the theme covers

Every surface Obsidian draws takes its colours from the Zacess palette: the editor in reading and editing view, headings, links, lists, quotes, rules, inline code and code blocks, tables, embeds, properties, footnotes, every callout type, the file explorer and every other tree, tabs, the ribbon, dividers, the status bar, the title bar, menus, the command palette and every other prompt, suggestions, modals, settings, notices, tooltips, inputs, toggles, sliders, the graph view, canvas, Bases table, card and kanban views, the PDF viewer, Sync avatars and Mermaid diagrams.

Every text colour keeps 7:1 on every fill it can sit on, secondary text keeps 4.5:1 over a selection or a hovered row and every border, outline, icon and mark keeps 3:1. Colour is never the only signal: links are underlined, the active tab, the open file, a selected row and a selected suggestion carry a bar, a highlight is underlined, a matched bracket is outlined and bold, a finished task is struck through, callouts keep their icon and every control shows a focus ring.

Releases

Each release matches a release of zacesshq/themes with the same version and carries manifest.json and theme.css. The full notes for every version are in its changelog.

Where the theme is made

[!NOTE] The theme is generated from one palette in zacesshq/themes, which also has the same themes for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Zed and terminals. The read-only copy zacesshq/obsidian-theme-high-contrast, which Obsidian's theme directory installs from, is updated by each release. Issues, ideas and pull requests go to zacesshq/themes.

Licence

MIT

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