Nous Research
Nile187 downloadsAn Obsidian theme that matches the **Hermes desktop app's Nous theme** - Light and dark mode in glass neutrals, Nous blue, and Psyche deep-blue, with the faint Hermes statue ghosted behind your notes.
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An Obsidian theme that matches the Hermes desktop app's Nous identity — glass neutrals with Nous blue accents in light mode, and the Psyche cream-on-deep-blue dark mode, with the faint Hermes statue ghosted behind your notes.
Disclosure
This project was written with the use a Large Language Model agent. Most was written by the agent itself; All of it has been reviewed by human eyes.
Features
- Light and dark modes — light is glass-white (
#F8FAFF) with Nous blue (#0053FD); dark is deep psyche blue (#0E2766) with warm cream text (#FFE6CB). - Faint statue backdrop behind notes in dark mode — the same asset the
Hermes desktop app renders. (
ds-assets/filler-bg0.jpg) - Courier Prime monospace, embedded as data URLs (no remote fonts).
- WCAG AA text contrast in both modes.
- Borderless dark chrome (glass look), amber selection, clearly underlined blue links, and framed callouts / code blocks / embeds / tables.
- All assets self-contained:
theme.css+manifest.jsononly.
Install
Obsidian → Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage → Browse → search "Nous Research".
Files
theme.css— the complete theme (self-contained)manifest.json— theme manifestimages/lightmode.jpg,images/darkmode.jpg— screenshots
License
Theme: CC0 1.0 — public domain dedication. Embedded assets keep their own licenses: Courier Prime (SIL Open Font License 1.1, © 2015 The Courier Prime Project Authors) and the background image (MIT, © 2025 Nous Research / Hermes Agent) — see LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY.md.