Obsidian Brutalism

A theme based on the web brutalist approach. Mainly for my personal needs:

• Words are the béton brut, the raw material. Forget about fancy visual features, focus on writing
• Less css is always better
• If you like inline-title, there is a fun gradient and fluid typography styling
• Let space for native obsidian config, like accent color or font selection
• For more information about this approach, read the forum post

Recomendations

Fonts

Use fonts like Archivo font for user interface, iA Writer Duo for the writing space, and some Nerd Font like Hack Nerd Font for code.

'Archivo' is a good font to use as the only typography if you prefer a sans serif

Or if you prefer a sans serif as writing font and other for UI

Brutalism Focus snippet

I've add a css snippet to hide the scrollbar, statusbar, sidebar and toggle-sidebar icons if you're like me: a keyboard-only nerd that has shortcuts to control everything. If you'd like to get a cleaner version of the theme, feel free to download and use.

• Download the snippet using this link
• Add the ccs file to your snippets folder in .obsidian/snippets/ (create a folder with that name if doesn't exist)
• Activate the snippet in Appearances, selecting it in the option CSS snippets
• Feel free to remove or add more css to the snippet

Other tips

• Set source mode as default editing mode (get used to see markup as an aesthetic value -raw material)
• Use keyboard and vim mode to focus on writing

Installation

1. Open Settings in Obsidian
2. Go to Appearances tab
3. Select Manage option in Themes
4. Search for Brutalism
5. Click Use