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Soft Paper

by nickmilo
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Description

This theme supports Dark Mode
This theme supports Light Mode

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Soft Paper

A custom Obsidian theme to feel more reflective.

I've heavily customized a theme based on the AnuPpuccin theme. After a year with it, I went ahead and forked this for performance reasons (and to keep it updated), because with multiple bases open (or even just in heavily-linked notes), it slowed down more than other themes. That slowdown is no good, and more importantly, I made that theme the standard for Ideaverse Pro, so it has gotten in the way of a fast experience for some people.

I was determined to keep my Soft Paper visuals, but to make things noticeably faster. And I have been successful!

This theme reduces the code by 86% and is much, much faster. For example, the CPU-expensive tab switching animation is gone. (This alone makes a big difference when you have multiple bases open.) Any option from the previous theme has been completely removed.

This is solely for Soft Paper lovers.

Performance Benchmarks (2026-02-15)

Metric AnuPpuccin Soft Paper Reduction
File size 350 KB 69 KB 80% smaller
Lines 8,519 1,416 83% fewer
Selectors 1,024 223 78% fewer
Conditional classes 2,211 0 100% gone
Animations/transitions 50 7 88% fewer
Box shadows/filters 31 6 81% fewer

Style Settings

If you install the 3rd-party plugin "Style Settings," I have a few style settings for you to toggle. These are settings I toggle, so I thought you might like them too.

  • Hide scrollbars
  • Make bases compact
    • Tighter vertical spacing in Bases plugin tables
  • Make file explorer compact
    • Tighter vertical spacing in the file explorer
  • Hide "Add property" button
    • Remove the "Add property" button below properties
  • Make status bar blue
    • Toggle the lower-right file details bar between blue and beige
  • Make settings see-through
    • Settings window at 90% opacity so you can see changes live

I especially like toggling the options to make the bases and file explorer compact. Look at the before and after below.

Before compact toggles are turned on

After compact toggles are turned on

Roadmap

I won't update often. But here are a few things I might want to develop.

  • Dark mode: The dark mode "works" but is far from optimized.
  • Graph view: It's pretty lame. Honestly, switch themes if you want a cool graph screenshot.

Credits

Based on AnuPpuccin by Anubis. If you enjoy this theme, consider supporting the original author.

License

GPL-3.0

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