Digital Rust

Digital Rust is a warm, tech-dystopian colour scheme for Obsidian, inspired by corrupted hardware and failing systems. Built around deep rust-copper tones with strategic pops of colour named after system failures, the theme embraces the beauty of digital decay while maintaining excellent readability.

This is the official Obsidian port of Digital Rust, dark mode only.

Installation

From the community directory

Digital Rust can be installable directly from Obsidian via Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage. You can see it on the Obsidian theme directory here.

Manual

1. Download theme.css and manifest.json from the latest release.
2. Create a folder named Digital Rust inside your vault's .obsidian/themes/ directory.
3. Place both files in that folder.
4. In Obsidian, open Settings → Appearance and select Digital Rust from the theme dropdown.

For developers

Clone this repository into your vault's themes directory and select it in Obsidian:

cd /path/to/your/vault/.obsidian/themes/
git clone https://github.com/KatSuricata/Obsidian-Digital-Rust.git "Digital Rust"

CSS is linted against the official stylelint-config-obsidianmd rules used during community theme review:

npm install
npm run lint

The lint config relaxes exactly one rule: selector-class-pattern permits camelCase selectors, because Obsidian's own class names (.cm-selectionBackground, .HyperMD-codeblock, …) can't be renamed from a theme.

Releasing

Versions are published as GitHub releases via GitHub Actions:

1. Bump the version in package.json and run npm run version to update manifest.json and versions.json.
2. Commit and push, then push a tag matching the new version number (for example git tag 1.0.1 && git push --tags).
3. The release workflow creates a draft release with manifest.json and theme.css attached; review and publish it.

Related

• Digital Rust design system: specification and ports for other applications.

License

Apache License 2.0 © Kat Suricata