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GithubWoodtype
A letterpress neubrutalist theme for Obsidian. Loud chrome, quiet page: heavy ink borders, hard offset shadows and chunky display type, built so text never disappears into its background.

Features
- Hard-edged surfaces — 2.5px ink borders, zero radius and offset shadows.
- Contrast-safe colour system — tags, table hovers, links, inline code, selections, checkboxes and list markers all flip to the correct ink for their surface, in light and dark mode.
- Neubrutalist lists — square bullets with a yellow hard offset, and numbered badges in reading view, live preview and canvas cards.
- Quiet reading page — tight measure, strong hierarchy and a single accent hue instead of a rainbow.
- Canvas aware — paper cards, themed edges, group chips and legible markers/links on every card colour.
- RTL aware — callouts, quotes, headings and embeds use logical borders, so Arabic notes mirror cleanly.
- Self-contained — DM Sans is embedded; no remote fonts, snippets or companion themes required.
Install
Community themes
Settings → Appearance → Themes → Browse → Woodtype, or add it directly.
Manual
- Download this folder.
- Put it in
<your vault>/.obsidian/themes/Woodtype/. - Open Settings → Appearance → Themes and choose Woodtype.
Settings
Woodtype works without plugins. With Style Settings you also get:
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Accent | #5294FF |
Focus rings, selection and accent UI |
| Shadow weight | 4px |
Distance of the hard offset shadows |
| Corner radius | 0px |
Keep it sharp, or soften it |
| Reading width | 700px |
Maximum line length |
| Focus mode | off | Dims sidebars until hovered |
| High contrast | off | Pushes muted text and hairlines to full ink |
Compatibility
- Obsidian 1.10+
- Desktop and mobile
- Light and dark mode; system mode follows Obsidian
Credits
- Typeface: DM Sans, Copyright 2014 The DM Sans Project Authors,
licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see
OFL.txt). The font is embedded intheme.cssso the theme renders offline. - Theme and code: Abdallah Aladl.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
