📝 intro

ultra lobster, an intentional writing experience.

i started working on ultra lobster for two reasons:

• one, was that no themes currently on the market fit my exact needs.
• two, i wanted to push obsidian as far as possible.* * namely by changing the ui to a card layout that is currently trending.

that being said, ‘ultra lobster: unity’ is the culmination of all the css i have written for obsidian. i tried to include all the snippets, options, and even themes i have been working on over the past year. the result is a rather large theme that should offer plenty of options without being too overwhelming. because at the end of the day, i simply want to make a theme that makes taking notes more pleasant.

⚒ styling changes

🃏 card ui

the base ultra lobster ui features a card with subtle border and shadow (both toggleable via style settings). additionally, most borders have been disabled or altered. finally, each workspace leaf and the workspace background have faint gradients applied as backgrounds to add polish.

📁 file explorer

the file explorer features small changes to items and highlights. i didn’t like the way obsidian showed the highlighted file as taking up the entire line. taking up the line lead to overlapping the indentation line on the left side, and i felt that some small changes would make it more seamless. it’s not a perfect solution, but works well enough for my liking.

🗣 blockquotes

blockquotes have been stripped of styling in live view, and feature a shadow and border in reading view. they also support the citation syntax from eleanor konik’s wonderful palatinate theme.

❗ callouts

for callouts, i kept it simple for defaults. however, with style settings, i offer a view different versions:

• gummy | the callouts from my gummy theme
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• notyoutube | callouts inspired/color matched to youtubes new cards.
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• brutal | heavy border, drop shadow creates paper effect (WIP).
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• soft | no border, darker tone on top to give depth.
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• working edits mk3 | the glowing callouts from my working edits (we) tweaks.
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• line (WIP).
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🖼 canvas

gods… so much here. there are, idk, like over 2k* lines of just canvas stuff. there are multiple options per card, from several themes & snippets; along with the option to disable borders per card. * citation needed.

🖥 codeblocks

code blocks, by default are very minimal in both live edit and reading mode. they have slight animations, and a small gradient. additionally, with style settings, there are multiple alternative options:

• gummy | codeblocks from my gummy theme with accent colors and dynamic glow (only in reading mode).
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• notosx | terminal windows style blocks by zamsyt#4459 💖 (only works in live preview mode).
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📍 other

Ⓜ menus & prompts

menus, prompts, tooltips, notices, and modals have all been redone with altered borders, shadows, and gradients.

⚙ alt-themes

the name “ultra lobster: unity” comes from the fact that i have combined origami, gummy, and all of my working edits* into one theme.

it is, effectively, three themes in a trench-coat. * we 1-2 are still wip.

🎨 color schemes

there are many themes, both for light and dark mode, that can be selected separately. there are also several dark-mode-only themes. there are quite a few options, from popular schemes to collabs and many of my own design. below you can see a library of previews:

⌨ type options

ultra lobster offeres a fairly wide range of font options with style settings. serifs, sans-serifs, and monospace all have options, along with titles and headers. headers also have several options.

❓ is this theme missing something?

open a ticket! I can't promise I will always be the fastest, but i'll try to add support and push fixes as quickly as I can.

💕credits

• 🖥️ lukemt for their smooth live headers and continued help!
• • 💭 the wonderful lyt theme by nick milo!
• 💎 obsidian, for the amazing program to theme
• ⌨️ the amazing plugin developers, for their time
• 🎨 the gifted theme community, for their inspiration
• 📌 pinterest for offering far too many designs to look at
• 👯 countless members of the community, for helping me test things
• 😈 myself, for writing all of this
• 🎡 john wheeler, for still having a really cool name
• 💖 you**, for reading this & trying my theme

⚖️ Licensing

Ultra Lobster is licensed under the MIT License, which means that it is free to use, modify, and distribute for personal or commercial use. I encourage users to customize and edit the theme to create their own unique versions. Please keep in mind that any modifications or distributions of the theme must retain the original MIT License and credit to the original author (me) and anyone else who’s code is used in those snippets :)

I hope that this theme serves as a helpful and flexible starting point for your own customization and development. If you have any questions or need further information, please don't hesitate to ask.