Theme: BENWF (Light/Dark) (deprecated)

BENWF · June 16, 2020, 7:06pm

A minimalistic dark and light theme, with focus on plain text and UI elements inspired by iA Writer.

You can find the theme in the Community themes section in your Obsidian configuration (or download the latest obsidian.css from the Github repository).

Happy styling!

BENWF · July 5, 2020, 2:17pm

I made lots of tweaks the last few weeks, and the plain text editor should be as plain text as possible by now (except for the accent color, which you can easily change).

Feedback welcome!

Also, @licat, I’d really feel honoured if you’d include the theme now that it’s on Github

Silver · July 5, 2020, 4:03pm

Yay it’s ready! Adding it now

BENWF · July 5, 2020, 4:17pm

Yay thank you!

pivic · July 6, 2020, 6:19am

Thank you so much. This is now my go-to theme in Obsidian!

pivic · July 15, 2020, 2:20pm

I’ve logged this weird search-result related jitter error when using this theme in Obsidian 0.8.0: https://github.com/benwf/obsidian-benwf/issues/1 - just thought I’d post about it here for visibility. This could (naturally) be due to something in my own environment, but the issue stopped when I used the default Obsidian theme instead.

BENWF · July 15, 2020, 2:32pm

Thanks for letting me know I’m on it!

BENWF · July 15, 2020, 4:27pm

Well, if it isn’t working now, it’s at least pretty looking while doing so

BENWF · July 15, 2020, 5:28pm

@Silver I think @pivic has found a strange edge case that might be of interest to you:

IIRC there was a similar / the same bug somewhere else mentioned on Discord, but I just can’t find it anymore. It appears to happen for him only with this search string, though.

pivic · July 15, 2020, 5:30pm

Please let me know if I can help out with this in any way. No other searches have, so far, resulted in the same weird behaviour.

BENWF · July 19, 2020, 12:00pm

I updated the theme to accommodate for a better Obsidian experience and usability, and thus slowly moved away from iA Writer’s typography. (The UI elements are still the main inspiration.)

If you’re looking for a iA Writer like color scheme and typography, I’d recommend checking out Theme: obsidian_ia / Another iA Writer inspired theme or if you’re looking for a theme implementing the Apple HIG this Minimal CSS theme.

Feedback welcome

BENWF · July 21, 2020, 9:37pm

Now correctly supports 0.8.1 new outline feature.

pivic · July 22, 2020, 6:06am

Thank you so much for keeping up-to-date with what’s being updated in Obsidian! Wow. Talk about responsive development!

Spontaneously—using your theme—things now look smaller in Obsidian. I’ve no issue with this as I guess it’s a matter of getting used to the new stuff.

BENWF · July 22, 2020, 6:26am

Thank you for using it

Here are two things you could try:

either zooming in (menu View → Zoom In)
or tell me which things you’d like enlarged, and I see what I can do

dlordmills · July 25, 2020, 4:58am

Really nice theme - clean, easy to see everything . . . “It just works.”

BENWF · September 3, 2020, 9:26am

Deprecated in favor of:

Minimal Theme (for a better Mac-like experience which I more and more aimed for)
Theme: obsidian_ia / Another iA Writer inspired theme (for an iA Writer like experience which I originally drew inspiration from)

rpcm · May 16, 2021, 11:35am

Is your GitHub totally gone?

BENWF · May 16, 2021, 12:56pm

Yup. It just didn’t make sense to keep it online anymore as those two themes do a much better job, and so much has changed meanwhile.

russJJ · October 21, 2021, 7:49pm

this might be the best looking theme i’ve seen, is it still available? i couldn’t find it on obsidian or github.

BENWF · October 22, 2021, 7:55am

Russ –

thank you for your kind words!

Alas, it’s not. Maybe these two alternatives are to your liking?