Cassette Futurism

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Warm amber accents, a charcoal dark mode, and a paper-toned light mode. CSS only, with no plugin dependency.

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A retro-futuristic theme for Obsidian, inspired by 1970s and 1980s sci-fi interfaces, CRT monitors, NASA mission control consoles, and vintage computing aesthetics.

Supports both Dark and Light modes out of the box with zero plugins and zero configuration required.

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Modes

Mode	Paradigm	Base	Accent Highlights
Dark ("Magnetic Night")	Analog CRT console	Deep steel-gray (`#1a1d21`)	Amber glow, phosphor green, signal cyan
Light ("Beige Terminal")	Vintage workstation	Warm beige (`#f5f0e8`)	Retro rainbow accents, deep crimson, high-contrast ink

Dark mode in Obsidian

Light mode in Obsidian

Features

CSS only: No plugin dependency or JavaScript.
Local assets: No remote fonts, images, or network requests.
Native appearance modes: Follows Obsidian's dark and light settings.
Full Markdown Coverage: Styled headings, code blocks, inline code, callouts, blockquotes, tables, tags, checkboxes, search results, and canvas cards.
Syntax Highlighting: Dedicated token coloring for both Live Preview (CodeMirror) and Reading View (Prism).

Installation

Obsidian Community Themes

Available in the Obsidian Community directory. Use Add to Obsidian on that page, or install from within the app:

Open Settings → Appearance.
Under Themes, click Browse.
Search for Cassette Futurism.
Click Install and use.

Manual Installation

Go to the Releases page.
Download manifest.json and theme.css.
In your Obsidian vault, navigate to (or create) .obsidian/themes/Cassette Futurism/.

Copy manifest.json and theme.css into that folder:

<your-vault>/
└── .obsidian/
    └── themes/
        └── Cassette Futurism/
            ├── manifest.json
            └── theme.css

Open Obsidian, go to Settings → Appearance → Themes, and select Cassette Futurism.

To toggle between dark and light modes, use Obsidian's standard setting (Settings → Appearance → Base color scheme) or the command palette (Switch between light and dark mode).

Building from Source

The stylesheet is deterministically generated from palette.toml using a Python standard-library generator (Python 3.11+ required for tomllib).

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/taotao7/obsidian-cassette-futurism.git
cd obsidian-cassette-futurism

# Regenerate manifest.json and theme.css
python3 generate.py

Attribution & License

Palette and design principles originated from taotao7/theme-tape and taotao7/cassette-futurism.
Released under the MIT License.

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About

Write in a matched dark or light palette with warm amber accents, cyan links, and colorful headings. Styles cover Markdown, code blocks, callouts, tables, navigation, and graph view. The theme uses local CSS with no remote assets or plugin dependency. Choose a mode through Obsidian’s native appearance settings.

Details

Current version

1.0.0

Last updated

Last week

Created

Last week

Updates

1 release

Downloads

157

License

MIT

Author

eliot xutaotao7

taotao7

Mode

Paradigm

Base

Accent Highlights

Dark ("Magnetic Night")

Analog CRT console

Deep steel-gray (#1a1d21)

Amber glow, phosphor green, signal cyan

Light ("Beige Terminal")

Vintage workstation

Warm beige (#f5f0e8)

Retro rainbow accents, deep crimson, high-contrast ink

Features

CSS only: No plugin dependency or JavaScript.

Local assets: No remote fonts, images, or network requests.

Native appearance modes: Follows Obsidian's dark and light settings.

Full Markdown Coverage: Styled headings, code blocks, inline code, callouts, blockquotes, tables, tags, checkboxes, search results, and canvas cards.

Syntax Highlighting: Dedicated token coloring for both Live Preview (CodeMirror) and Reading View (Prism).

Installation

Obsidian Community Themes

Available in the Obsidian Community directory. Use Add to Obsidian on that page, or install from within the app:

Open Settings → Appearance.

Under Themes, click Browse.

Search for Cassette Futurism.

Click Install and use.

Manual Installation

Go to the Releases page.

Download manifest.json and theme.css.

In your Obsidian vault, navigate to (or create) .obsidian/themes/Cassette Futurism/.

Copy manifest.json and theme.css into that folder:

<your-vault>/
└── .obsidian/
    └── themes/
        └── Cassette Futurism/
            ├── manifest.json
            └── theme.css

Open Obsidian, go to Settings → Appearance → Themes, and select Cassette Futurism.

To toggle between dark and light modes, use Obsidian's standard setting (Settings → Appearance → Base color scheme) or the command palette (Switch between light and dark mode).

Building from Source

The stylesheet is deterministically generated from palette.toml using a Python standard-library generator (Python 3.11+ required for tomllib).

# Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/taotao7/obsidian-cassette-futurism.git cd obsidian-cassette-futurism # Regenerate manifest.json and theme.css python3 generate.py