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# Minimal
Repository: [GitHub](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal)
Designed by: [[kepano]]
Modes: [[Dark-mode themes|dark]], [[Light-mode themes|light]]

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## Features
- [[Themes with Friendly Settings|Friendly settings]]: Supports the [[obsidian-style-settings|Style Settings]] plugin
## Customization Options (Style Settings Plugin)
**Documentation**: Use the Minimal Theme Settings plugin to set hotkeys, adjust features, select fonts, and choose from preset color schemes. Use the settings below for more granular customization. Go to https://minimal.guide for documentation.
**Interface colors**:
- Base color: Defines all background and border colors unless overridden in more granular settings
- Primary background: Background color for the main window
- Secondary background: Background color for left sidebar and menus
- Active background: Background color for hovered buttons and currently selected file
- Border color: For buttons, divider lines, and outlined elements
- Highlighted border color: Used when hovering over buttons, dividers, and outlined elements
- Active border color: Used when clicking buttons and outlined elements
**Accent color**:
- Accent color: Used primarily for links
- Accent color (hover): Used primarily for hovered links
- Accent color interactive: Used for buttons, checklists, toggles
- Text on accent: Used primarily for text on accented buttons
**Extended colors**:
- Red: Extended palette colors are defaults used for progress bar status, syntax highlighting, colorful headings, and graph nodes
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Cyan
- Blue
- Purple
- Pink
**Blockquotes**:
- Blockquote text color
- Blockquote background color
- Blockquote border color
- Blockquote border thickness
- Blockquote font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- Blockquote font style
**Callouts**:
- Callout style
- Color blending: Blend the color of nested callouts
**Canvas**:
- Canvas dot pattern: Color for background dot pattern
**Code blocks**:
- Code font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- Scroll long lines: Turns off line wrap for code
- Code background color: Background for code blocks
- Code text color: Color of code when syntax highlighting is not present
- **Syntax highlighting**:
- Syntax: comments: Syntax highlighting for comments
- Syntax: functions: Syntax highlighting for functions
- Syntax: keywords: Syntax highlighting for keywords
- Syntax: important: Syntax highlighting for important text
- Syntax: operators: Syntax highlighting for operators
- Syntax: properties: Syntax highlighting for properties
- Syntax: punctuation: Syntax highlighting for punctuation
- Syntax: strings: Syntax highlighting for strings
- Syntax: tags: Syntax highlighting for tags
- Syntax: values: Syntax highlighting for values
**Dataview**:
- Trim Dataview columns: Disables word wrapping in table cells, and trims long text
- Force tables lists inline: Makes lists inside of table cells inline and comma separated
- Dataview maximum column width: Maximum width for Dataview columns, accepts any CSS width value
**Embeds and transclusions**:
- Use strict embed style globally: Transclusions appear seamlessly in the flow of text. Can be enabled per file using the embed-strict helper class
- Hide embed titles: Hide title of the transcluded file (if strict embed is off)
- Underline embedded text: Transcluded text is underlined. Can be enabled per file using the embed-underline helper class
- Maximum height of embeds: For transcluded text, accepts valid CSS units
- Embedded text underline style: Requires underlines to be enabled
- Embedded text underline color: Requires underlines to be enabled
- Embed background
**Graphs**:
- Line color: Changing graph colors requires closing and reopening graph panes or restarting Obsidian
- Node color
- Active node color
- Tag node color
- Attachment node color
- Unresolved node color
**Headings**:
- **Level 1 Headings**:
- H1 font: Name of the font as it appears on your system
- H1 font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- H1 font weight
- H1 text color
- H1 font variant
- H1 font style
- H1 divider line: Adds a border below the heading
- **Level 2 Headings**:
- H2 font: Name of the font as it appears on your system
- H2 font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- H2 font weight
- H2 text color
- H2 font variant
- H2 font style
- H2 divider line: Adds a border below the heading
- **Level 3 Headings**:
- H3 font: Name of the font as it appears on your system
- H3 font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- H3 font weight
- H3 text color
- H3 font variant
- H3 font style
- H3 divider line: Adds a border below the heading
- **Level 4 Headings**:
- H4 font: Name of the font as it appears on your system
- H4 font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- H4 font weight
- H4 text color
- H4 font variant
- H4 font style
- H4 divider line: Adds a border below the heading
- **Level 5 Headings**:
- H5 font: Name of the font as it appears on your system
- H5 font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- H5 font weight
- H5 text color
- H5 font variant
- H5 font style
- H5 divider line: Adds a border below the heading
- **Level 6 Headings**:
- H6 font: Name of the font as it appears on your system
- H6 font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- H6 font weight
- H6 text color
- H6 font variant
- H6 font style
- H6 divider line: Adds a border below the heading
**Icons**:
- Icon opacity (inactive)
- Icon color
- Icon color (hover)
- Icon color (active)
- Icon color (focused)
**Images**:
- Image opacity in dark mode: Level of fading for images in dark mode. Hover over images to display at full brightness.
- Image radius: Rounded corners for images
- Blend images in light mode: Allow images to blend into the color scheme background color
- Disable image zoom: Turns off click + hold to zoom images
- Image grid crop: Sets how images get cropped in a grid
- Image grid background: Background of images in cells, useful when images are not cropped to fit
**Indentation guides**:
- Horizontal adjustment in reading mode
- Horizontal adjustment in edit mode
- Indentation guide color
- Indentation guide color (active)
**Links**:
- **Internal links**:
- Internal link color
- Internal link color (hover)
- Unresolved link opacity
- Unresolved link color
- Unresolved link underline color
- **External links**:
- External link color
- External link color (hover)
**Line numbers**:
- Highlight active line: Adds a background to current line in editor
- Gutter offset: Width of the file margin used for gutter
- Gutter background
- Line number color
- Active line number color
- Active line background: Using a low opacity color is recommended to avoid conflicting with highlights
**Lists and tasks**:
- Checkbox color: Background color for completed tasks
- Checkbox shape
- Strike completed tasks: Adds strikethrough line and greyed text for completed tasks
- List item spacing: Vertical space between list items in em units
- Nested list indentation: Horizontal space from left in em units
**PDFs**:
- PDF page style: Borders and shadows around pages
- Invert PDFs in dark mode: Best for working with black text on white pages
- Blend PDFs in light mode: Allow PDFs to blend into the color scheme background color
- PDF opacity in dark mode: Fade PDF pages in dark mode
**Progress bars**:
- Completed progress bar color: Defaults to your accent color
**Properties**:
- Hide properties heading: Hide "Properties" heading above properties
- Hide "Add property" button: Hide "Add property" button below properties
- Hide property icons: Hide icons next to property names
- Property row lines: Display borders between properties
- Property name width: Width for the name of the property
**Sidebars**:
- Hide sidebar relationship lines: Turns off lines in file navigation
- Sidebar tab style
- Mobile left sidebar width: Maximum width for pinned left sidebar on mobile
- Mobile right sidebar width: Maximum width for pinned right sidebar on mobile
**Ribbon**:
- Ribbon style: Ribbon menu can be hidden using the Hider plugin
**Tables**:
- Table font size: All of the following settings apply to all tables globally. To turn on these features on a per-note basis use helper classes. See documentation.
- Maximize table width: Determines how wide tables should behave when they become wider than the line width
- Row lines: Display borders between table rows globally
- Column lines: Display borders between table columns globally
- Cell lines: Display borders around all table cells globally
- Striped rows: Display striped background in alternating table rows globally
- Striped columns: Display striped background in alternating table columns globally
- Tabular figures: Use fixed width numbers in tables globally
- Row numbers: Display row numbers in tables globally
- Disable line wrap: Turn off line wrapping in table cells globally
- Highlight active row: Highlight rows on hover
- Active row background: Background color for hovered tables rows
**Tabs**:
- Tab bar height
- Tab style
- Tab text color
- Tab text color (active)
**Tab stacks**:
- Stacked width: Width of a stacked tab in pixels
- Spine width: Width of the spine in pixels
- Spine text orientation
**Tags**:
- Plain tags: Tags will render as normal text, overrides settings below
- Tag shape
- Tag border width
- Tag text color
- Tag background color
- Tag background color (hover)
**Text**:
- Normal text color: Primary text color used by default across all elements
- Selected text background
- Highlighted text background
- Muted text color: Secondary text such as sidebar note titles and table headings
- Faint text color: tertiary text such as input placeholders, empty checkboxes, and disabled statuses
- Italic text color
- Bold text color
- Bold text weight
- Paragraph spacing: Space between paragraphs in reading mode (Obsidian 1.3.7+)
- Heading spacing: Space between paragraphs and headings in reading mode (Obsidian 1.3.7+)
**Titles**:
- **Tab title bar**: Tab title bar must be turned on in Appearance settings
- Tab title visibility: Visibility of the tab title text
- Tab title font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- Tab title font weight
- Tab title alignment
- Tab title text color (active)
- Tab title text color (inactive)
- **Inline title**: Inline titles must be turned on in Appearance settings
- Inline title font: Name of the font as it appears on your system
- Inline title font size: Accepts any CSS font-size value
- Inline title font weight
- Inline title text color (active)
**Translucency**:
- Translucent background color
**Window frame**:
- Hide window frame title: Hide title in the custom title bar
- Frame background: Requires colorful window frame
- Frame icon color: Requires colorful frame
- Frame title color (focused): Requires custom title bar
- Frame title color (inactive): Requires custom title bar
- Frame title font weight: Requires custom title bar
## Plugin Compatibility[^1]
**Core plugins**:
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Backlinks|Backlinks]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Command palette|Command palette]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Daily notes|Daily notes]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#File explorer|File explorer]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#File recovery|File recovery]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Search|Search]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Graph view|Graph view]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Outgoing Links|Outgoing Links]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Outline|Outline]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Page preview|Page preview]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Publish|Publish]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Random note|Random note]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Starred notes|Starred notes]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Quick switcher|Quick switcher]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Sync|Sync]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Tag pane|Tag pane]]
- [[Obsidian Core Plugins#Word count|Word count]]
**Community plugins**:
- [[buttons|Buttons]]
- [[dataview|Dataview]]
- [[calendar|Calendar]]
- [[obsidian-charts|Obsidian Charts]]
- [[obsidian-checklist-plugin|Checklist]]
- [[obsidian-codemirror-options|obsidian-codemirror-options]]
- [[obsidian-dictionary-plugin|Dictionary]]
- [[obsidian-embedded-note-titles|obsidian-embedded-note-titles]]
- [[obsidian-excalidraw-plugin|Excalidraw]]
- [[obsidian-git|Obsidian Git]]
- [[obsidian-hider|Hider]]
- [[obsidian-hover-editor|Hover Editor]]
- [[obsidian-kanban|Kanban]]
- [[obsidian-metatable|obsidian-metatable]]
- [[obsidian-minimal-settings|Minimal Theme Settings]]
- [[obsidian-outliner|Outliner]]
- [[obsidian-system-dark-mode|obsidian-system-dark-mode]]
- [[obsidian-style-settings|Style Settings]]
- [[quickadd|QuickAdd]]
- [[sliding-panes-obsidian|Sliding Panes (Andy's Mode)]]
- [[todoist-sync-plugin|Todoist Sync Plugin]]
[^1]: Generally, Obsidian themes work with any plugins. That a plugin is not listed here does not mean that it won't work together with the theme. Plugins listed here only received special attention and/or styling by the theme designer.
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