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Soft Paper

A custom Obsidian theme to feel more reflective.

I've heavily customized a theme based on the AnuPpuccin theme. After a year with it, I went ahead and forked this for performance reasons (and to keep it updated), because with multiple bases open (or even just in heavily-linked notes), it slowed down more than other themes. That slowdown is no good, and more importantly, I made that theme the standard for Ideaverse Pro, so it has gotten in the way of a fast experience for some people.

I was determined to keep my Soft Paper visuals, but to make things noticeably faster. And I have been successful!

This theme reduces the code by 86% and is much, much faster. For example, the CPU-expensive tab switching animation is gone. (This alone makes a big difference when you have multiple bases open.) Any option from the previous theme has been completely removed.

This is solely for Soft Paper lovers. soft-paper-theme

Performance Benchmarks (2026-02-15)

Metric AnuPpuccin Soft Paper Reduction
File size 350 KB 69 KB 80% smaller
Lines 8,519 1,416 83% fewer
Selectors 1,024 223 78% fewer
Conditional classes 2,211 0 100% gone
Animations/transitions 50 7 88% fewer
Box shadows/filters 31 6 81% fewer

Style Settings

If you install the 3rd-party plugin "Style Settings," I have a few style settings for you to toggle. These are settings I toggle, so I thought you might like them too.

  • Hide scrollbars
  • Make bases compact
    • Tighter vertical spacing in Bases plugin tables
  • Make file explorer compact
    • Tighter vertical spacing in the file explorer
  • Hide "Add property" button
    • Remove the "Add property" button below properties
  • Make status bar blue
    • Toggle the lower-right file details bar between blue and beige
  • Make settings see-through
    • Settings window at 90% opacity so you can see changes live
CleanShot 2026-02-15 at 18 48 07

I especially like toggling the options to make the bases and file explorer compact. Look at the before and after below.

Before compact toggles are turned on before-compaction

After compact toggles are turned on after-compaction


Roadmap

I won't update often. But here are a few things I might want to develop.

  • Dark mode: The dark mode "works" but is far from optimized.
  • Graph view: It's pretty lame. Honestly, switch themes if you want a cool graph screenshot.

Credits

Based on AnuPpuccin by Anubis. If you enjoy this theme, consider supporting the original author.

License

GPL-3.0

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