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Minimal Theme Settings

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Overview

Minimal Theme Settings is the official plugin that accompanies Minimal. It allows you to customize Minimal from the Obsidian Settings panel. This plugin is not required, but highly recommended.

Minimal Theme Settings is required for Hotkeys support.

Installation

Use this link to open in Obsidian or follow the instructions below:

  • Open Obsidian Settings
  • Go to Community plugins and turn off Safe mode
  • Under community themes search for "Minimal Theme Settings" and click Install, then Enable

Settings

Color scheme

Choose from preset Color schemes or customize your own with Style Settings

  • Light mode color scheme
  • Dark mode color scheme

Background contrast options

Choose Background contrast options

  • Default uses a slighty darker background for the sidebar
  • Low contrast uses the same background for sidebar and main panel
  • All white (light mode only) uses white sidebar and main panel
  • High contrast (light mode only) uses dark sidebar and light main panel
  • True black (dark mode only) uses pure black sidebar and main panel

Accent color

  • Control the accent color hue and saturation. This color is used for interactive elements such as links, buttons, text selections, and more.

Features

The following features can be toggled on or off:

  • Navigation labels: Primary navigation in the left sidebar uses text labels
  • Colorful frame — Text input cursor uses your accent color
  • Colorful active states — Active file and menu items use your accent color
  • Colorful headings — Headings use a different color for each size
  • Minimal status bar — Use narrow status bar
  • Trim file names in sidebars — Use ellipses to fit file names on a single line
  • Workspace borders — Display divider lines between sidebar elements
  • Focus mode — Hide title bar and status bar, hover to display
  • Underline internal links — Show underlines on internal links
  • Underline external links — Show underlines on external links
  • Maximize media — Images and videos fill the width of the line

Typography

Fonts

  • Editor font
  • Body font size
  • Sidebar font size
  • Line height

Line width

See Line width for more details

  • Normal line width
  • Wide line width
  • Maximum line width
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