2.0.4

A tidier stylesheet, with nothing to see on the page.

• No more !important. Tables, callouts and links now win their styles through ordinary specificity, so snippets and other plugins can adjust them without a fight. Everything looks exactly as before.
• Less :has(). It's down to the one place that needs it, which keeps long notes quick to restyle.
• Needs Obsidian 1.8.7 or newer, the same as Damask Studio.

Install: Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage, search for Damascene. Or download theme.css and manifest.json into .obsidian/themes/Damascene/.

2.0.3

Obsidian's theme directory doesn't allow a listed theme to change its name, so in the theme browser this theme stays Damascene for now. Everywhere else it is Damask: the README, Style Settings, and the companion plugin Damask Studio.

Nothing changes if you already have it installed: it keeps updating in place.

Install: Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage, search for Damascene. Or download theme.css and manifest.json into .obsidian/themes/Damascene/.

2.0.2

Damascene is now Damask, the English name of the silk first woven in Damascus. Same theme, a name that is easier to say and remember.

• New name. Nothing in your notes needs to change: classes and variables keep the dm- prefix. The README explains the name and every colour.
• Five languages. The README is now in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Turkish, each with a showcase note you can drop into your vault.
• A pointer to the companion plugin. Style Settings opens with a short note about Damask Studio, which inserts every block from a gallery and previews every palette live.

Install: Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage, search for Damask. Or download theme.css and manifest.json into .obsidian/themes/Damask/.

2.0.1

A small update to the light palettes, ahead of the theme store.

• Clearer callouts in light mode. Warning and question callouts now use a clear ochre gold instead of a brown that looked like the note colour, so notes, warnings and dangers are easy to tell apart. Highlighted text picks up the same warmer tint.
• Tidier variables. Two unused variables are gone, and the remaining --dm-* variables are documented in the README for anyone writing CSS snippets.

Install: download theme.css and manifest.json into .obsidian/themes/Damascene/, or update from Settings → Appearance once Damascene is in the theme store.

2.0.0

The first public release of Damascene, an Obsidian theme drawn from the colours of old Damascus.

• Seven palettes: Forest night, Charcoal & wheat, Umber night and Midnight for dark mode; Wheat paper, White paper and Forest day for light mode.
• Ornamented headings, dividers and quotes, and callouts for quotes, verses, poems, definitions, steps and panels.
• Right-to-left layout for Arabic notes, with itf Qomra Arabic embedded.
• Style Settings options written in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Turkish.

Install: download theme.css and manifest.json into .obsidian/themes/Damascene/, then pick Damascene in Settings → Appearance.

The optional companion plugin lives in damascene-studio.