Skywalker

A dark theme for Obsidian. Nine flavours light and dark, fourteen accents, and almost everything a switch in Style Settings.

Source: theloop-am/obsidian-skywalker.

Contents

• 1 Installation
• 2 Colours
• 3 Settings
• 4 The companion plugin
• 5 What changed from AnuPpuccin
• 6 Quality
• 7 Privacy
• 8 Development
• 9 Credits
• 10 License

1 Installation

In Obsidian: Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage, then search for Skywalker.

By hand: download theme.css and manifest.json from the latest release and put them in <vault>/.obsidian/themes/Skywalker/.

Requires Obsidian 1.13.0 or later.

2 Colours

Nine flavours are built in: Latte, Solarized and Rosé Pine in light, and Mocha, Macchiato, Frappé, Flexoki, AMOLED and Catppuccin's earlier Mocha in dark. Fourteen accents are chosen separately, so the flavour and the colour it highlights with are not one decision.

AMOLED is true black rather than a dark grey, for screens where that is the difference between dark and off. It also goes over any other dark flavour, as a highlight, as a border, or as both.

snippets/extended-colorschemes.css adds twenty-five more, light and dark — among them Nord, Dracula, Gruvbox, Everforest, Kanagawa, Atom, Notion and Royal Velvet. It is optional and separate: copy it into <vault>/.obsidian/snippets/.

3 Settings

Almost everything is a switch in Style Settings — the layout of the tabs, the shape of the callouts, the checkboxes, the file browser colours, the rainbow folders. Install that plugin and the theme's settings appear under it.

4 The companion plugin

Skywalker Settings adds what a stylesheet cannot draw for itself:

• A starfield on canvas, across the top of the window, and down either sidebar, onto empty tabs or behind the graph if you want it there.
• A life calendar behind the actions on a new tab: one cell for every week you have lived, and the weeks ahead.
• Your own artwork from the vault, which the theme then uses in place of its own mark.

More widgets will follow.

The theme is complete without it, and each of those has a fallback here. When the plugin is installed it fills --loopsk-vault-logo and --loopsk-banner-logo, and the theme reads them. That is the whole contract between the two.

5 What changed from AnuPpuccin

AnuPpuccin has had no release in two years, and Obsidian kept moving. This is that theme brought up to the current app.

It fits the Obsidian you are running. Parts of AnuPpuccin styled things the app no longer draws, and had quietly stopped doing anything at all. Whole features waited on switches that were never added, so nobody ever saw them. What is left is what actually reaches the screen, checked against Obsidian 1.13.

It asks less of the app. The theme leaned on selectors the browser has to re-check on every change to the page — every keystroke, every pane you open. Most of those are gone, which shows up first in Canvas, where that cost is highest.

Your own styling wins. The theme no longer forces its choices over yours. A snippet you write, or another plugin's styling, takes effect without you having to fight the theme for it.

Things that were broken work. Text fields and the search bar had lost their shadow, and hover previews appeared abruptly instead of fading in. Both had been that way since long before this fork, and neither is now.

6 Quality

Every change passes the same gates before it lands: the stylesheet is rebuilt from src/ and refused if the two disagree, stylelint reads the SCSS under the modern SCSS ruleset and the built sheet under the ruleset the community directory scans with, the manifest is checked against the directory's rules, and one check of our own refuses a stylesheet that reaches the network.

mise run check is the whole set, and it runs again before every push.

7 Privacy

The theme makes no network requests. Every font and image it uses is inside the stylesheet, so nothing about your reading reaches anyone, online or off.

8 Development

mise install && mise deps       # tools, then dependencies
mise run build                  # src/ into theme.css
mise run check                  # every gate
VAULT=/path/to/vault mise run theme:install

theme.css is committed because Obsidian installs it directly. It is built from src/, never edited by hand, and mise run test:build fails when the two drift apart.

9 Credits

Skywalker is derived from AnuPpuccin by Anubis, imported at upstream commit 82d207c and modified since. Most of what is here is still that work. If you like the foundation this is built on, consider supporting the original author.

10 License

GPL-3.0. See LICENSE.

Copyright (C) 2022-2024 Anubis (AnubisNekhet) — original AnuPpuccin Copyright (C) 2026 theLOOP