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Obsidian

Premium high-contrast theme with electric-violet accents across cool light and near-black dark palettes. Built for AI products, premium SaaS, fintech, web3, and developer tools.

Version 1.1.0

Meet Obsidian

A look at its colors and typography, from the headline to the smallest details.

ObsidianLight / Design sample

A place for your next chapter.

Your ideas, your stories, your point of view. Give them a home that feels like you.

Start somethingExplore the story →
Room for the details.

Thoughtful type, a clear palette, and space for what matters.

ObsidianDark / Design sample

A place for your next chapter.

Your ideas, your stories, your point of view. Give them a home that feels like you.

Start somethingExplore the story →
Room for the details.

Thoughtful type, a clear palette, and space for what matters.

The identity

A character of its own

Obsidian is a two-mode premium product system: a cool mineral-white light canvas, a near-black indigo dark canvas, and one electric-violet accent used only where a decision is being made. It signals expense through sharp edges, a single saturated hue held in reserve, and controlled depth, never through decoration.

  • sharp
  • premium
  • engineered
  • high-contrast

The palette

Color with intention

Light palette

Canvas#faf9ff
Ink#1d1830
Primary#6847de
Accent#e8e1fb
Surface#ece9f7

Dark palette

Canvas#080810
Ink#f0efff
Primary#7858f6
Accent#1a1730
Surface#0e0d1e

The typography

Find your voice in type

Headings

Make a little room for possibility.

-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", sans-serif

Body

Good stories start with a clear point of view.

-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", sans-serif

Code & details

Aa Bb Cc · 0123456789

"SFMono-Regular", Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace

Made for

Who it speaks to

Design-conscious technical products: AI platforms and copilots, premium developer tools, fintech and web3 apps, and high-end SaaS whose buyers judge the product partly by how its marketing site, docs, and changelog look. Obsidian gives their public surfaces the same precision as their IDEs and dashboards in either mode.

The voice

How it sounds

Confident, precise, and technical without hype. State the capability, then stop. Prefer concrete nouns and verbs ('ships', 'indexes', 'signs') over adjectives ('powerful', 'seamless', 'revolutionary'). One claim per sentence; one primary action per view — mirroring the way the violet is spent.

Art direction

The thinking behind the look

Light mode uses mineral white (#faf9ff), indigo ink (#1d1830), and electric violet (#6847de); dark mode uses near-black indigo (#080810), lavender-white (#f0efff), and brighter violet (#7858f6). The recurring violet crown marks only the most important panel. System sans, tight radii, violet-tinted depth, and dark pinned terminal code keep both palettes sharp, technical, and free of warmth or decorative gradients.