#1

On Windows, Obsidian’s default body text color is a medium dark gray. I want the default text to be black. I don’t want to use another separate or external obsidian.css file and only want to modify the default font. How can I do that? There is no default .css file to modify - at least that I can find. I’m using 0.9.4 on Windows 10.

PS - I think part of the problem is that I cycled through some of the custom css themes which overwrote obsidian.css. Now, to get back to default seems impossible. Do I have to reinstall the full app?

#2

If you disable the Custom CSS setting in Preferences → Appearance, it reverts to the default theme (and in fact, completely ignores any obsidian.css file).

If you just want to change the text colour, enable Custom CSS in Preferences → Appearance, delete everything in obsidian.css (or if it doesn’t exist, create a new blank obsidian.css file, and add the CSS settings to change the text colours as you desire.

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#3

Hmmm… a bit tricky in Windows -> does this look right?

.theme-light {
–text-rgb: 0, 0, 0;
}

body.theme-light {
–text-normal: rgba(var(–text-rgb), 1.0);
}

PS- that didn’t work BTW. Because, removing the full obsidian.css and just adding the font changes within a new blank obsidian.css alters the entire Obsidian UI.

#4

Yes, you’d still have to use the right selectors to get to the elements you want to change. Generally that means working within the .obsidian-preview-view and .obsidian-source-view classes for content text, and others for UI elements. The process is straightforward but non-trivial.

You may find more speedy success by selecting a theme you like and editing the colour variables in it to suit your tastes.

#5

Is the default obsidian.css available anywhere? Or, if I reinstall the app is the default obsidian.css recreated?

#6

The default theme styling is bundled with the app. There is not a separate obsidian.css file. The default styling is always there. When you add a obsidian.css file you are overriding, not replacing, the default styling.

#7

To add to Sam’s answer: the default obsidian.css is always there, under the hood. If you disable the preference I mentioned above, you’re operating with the default theme.

#8

I was able to finally find a 3rd party theme that was close enough to the default that I was able to modify to my liking. Thanks for the help!!

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