Overworld
An 8-bit platformer theme for Obsidian. Brick chrome, pipe-green quotes, coin tags, question-block checkboxes. Light and dark.
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An 8-bit platformer theme for Obsidian. Brick chrome, pipe-green quotes, coin tags, question-block checkboxes and a pixel font for headings. Light and dark.
Every shape is drawn with CSS gradients and stepped box shadows. There are no images and no third-party sprites or logos.
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| Empty tab | Flagpole option |
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What it changes
- Headings in Press Start 2P with a hard title shadow
- Callouts as framed blocks: gold, lava, 1-UP green, pipe green, underground blue, used-block brown
- Checkboxes: a question block that turns into a used block when checked
- Tags as coins, highlights as a coin-gold marker, footnotes as coins
- Blockquotes as standing pipes
- Tables with a ground-block header and zebra rows
- Sidebar with menu-cursor rows, brick folder blocks and file pips
- Status bar as a HUD, with a "WORLD 1-1" label
- Settings, command palette and modals as title-card boxes
- Unresolved links in used-block brown, external links with a pixel arrow
- New-tab screen with clouds, a hill and a ground strip
Options
Install the Style Settings plugin to get these toggles. All are off by default.
| Option | Effect |
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| Motion | Coin flash on jumps, pointer blink, checkbox bump, button press. Respects reduced-motion. |
| Plain table rows | Turns off zebra striping |
| Table headers in body font | Table headers use the normal font |
| Tab titles in body font | Tab titles use the normal font |
| Hide HUD label | Removes the "WORLD 1-1" label from the status bar |
| Quiet folder tiles | Folder chevrons sit on a faint tile instead of a brick block |
| Flagpole at note end | Pixel flagpole and castle under the last line in reading view |
Install
Settings, Appearance, Themes, Manage, search for Overworld.
To install by hand, put theme.css and manifest.json in .obsidian/themes/Overworld/ in your vault.
Credits
Font: Press Start 2P by Cody Boisclair, SIL Open Font License 1.1, latin subset embedded in theme.css. The font license is in FONT-LICENSE.txt.
The theme is licensed under MIT. See LICENSE.