🏁  rbr.obsidian

A Red Bull Racing colorscheme for Obsidian — the Obsidian port of rbr-theme.

 

 

About

rbr.obsidian paints Obsidian with the RBR color scheme — a three-accent palette: kerb red for what's active, RB yellow for what needs attention, chequer white for functions / methods. A deep navy base keeps the trio readable. See the upstream STYLE-GUIDE.md for the full design rules.

Note

This scheme is a fan tribute. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Red Bull Racing, Oracle Red Bull Racing, or Red Bull GmbH.

 

Install

Manual install (current)

1. Download theme.css and manifest.json from this repo.
2. Drop them into your vault at:

   <vault>/.obsidian/themes/RBR/
     ├── manifest.json
     └── theme.css
   

3. In Obsidian: Settings → Appearance → Themes → pick RBR.

Tip: from the vault root, mkdir -p .obsidian/themes/RBR and copy the two files in.

From source

git clone https://github.com/Amdhj22/rbr.obsidian.git
mkdir -p <your-vault>/.obsidian/themes/RBR
cp rbr.obsidian/{manifest.json,theme.css} <your-vault>/.obsidian/themes/RBR/

Reload Obsidian (Cmd+R / Ctrl+R) and pick RBR in Settings → Appearance → Themes.

From the Obsidian Community Themes

Coming soon. Once published, install via Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage → search RBR.

 

What it paints

rbr.obsidian covers the surfaces Obsidian exposes via CSS variables and a few hand-styled selectors:

Layer	What it covers
Workspace chrome	Sidebar, file explorer, tabs (active tab → kerb-red top bar), title bar, status bar, modals, popovers, scrollbars
Editor body	Cursor (RB yellow), active line, selection (surface2), matching brackets, indentation guides, inline title
Markdown rendering	Headings (h1 = kerb red, h2 = RB yellow, h3 = chequer white), links, blockquotes (red side bar), tables, hr, bold/italic
Code blocks & live preview	CodeMirror token mapping — keywords = red, strings = green, functions = white, types = yellow, numbers = grey, comments = subtext
Tags	RB-yellow pill ("look here")
Callouts	info/note → oracle blue, warning/todo → RB yellow, tip/success → paddock green, error/bug/fail → kerb bright, important → kerb red
Search & highlight	Search matches and ==highlights== tinted RB yellow
Graph view	Unresolved nodes → kerb bright, focused → kerb red, tag nodes → RB yellow, attachments → paddock green
Properties / metadata	Property keys in RB yellow, values in default text

Highlights of the painting choices:

• Active tab top border = Kerb Red — only one tab is "the one"
• Cursor = RB Yellow — the always-attention pixel
• Active file in the file explorer gets a kerb-red accent bar on the left
• Inline title of the current note = Kerb Red
• Vault name in the title bar = RB Yellow
• Blockquote = kerb-red side border with a subtle red wash
• ==highlight== = RB-yellow background (matches the search-match style)

 

Companion ports

For a consistent look across the rest of your stack:

Tool	Repo
Neovim	Amdhj22/rbr.nvim
VS Code	Amdhj22/rbr.vscode
tmux	Amdhj22/rbr.tmux
Ghostty / iTerm2 / Powerlevel10k / eza	Amdhj22/rbr

 

Development

git clone https://github.com/Amdhj22/rbr.obsidian.git
cd rbr.obsidian

# Symlink into a test vault for live editing
ln -s "$PWD" "<your-test-vault>/.obsidian/themes/RBR"

Then in Obsidian: Settings → Appearance → Themes → RBR. Edits to theme.css show up after Cmd+R (Reload).

For deeper inspection, open Obsidian's developer tools with Cmd+Option+I (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows / Linux). The Styles pane lets you find the CSS variable behind any element before adding a rule here.

 

Submitting to the Community Themes gallery

Once the repo is public, follow Obsidian's submission flow:

1. Tag a release matching manifest.json's version (e.g. 0.1.0).
2. Open a PR against obsidianmd/obsidian-releases adding RBR to community-css-themes.json.
3. After review, RBR appears under Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage.

 

License

MIT © Amdhj22