Scriptorium
A fancy and sophisticated obsidian configuration for the typographically inclined
Bookish serif typography, warm paper, centered small-cap headings, italic subtitles, ornamental Yinit drop caps, and floral scene breaks. Includes the Typewriter theme, a custom manuscript stylesheet, and writing plugins.
Download the Obsidian configuration
Fancy mode
Fancy mode starts off, with centered small-cap section headings and bordered quotations. Turn it on for quiet italic quotations and justified openings. Both modes open chapters with an ornamental Yinit initial. Images are centred; to place one, add left, right or center before the size, as in ![[image.png|left|300]]. Links are inked like the ones on this site. Both modes use the same 1.45 line spacing.
In Obsidian, go to Settings → Scriptorium → Fancy mode. You can also click the feather icon, click Fancy mode: on/off in the status bar, or use Scriptorium: Toggle fancy mode in the command palette. Your choice is remembered for that vault.
The preview switch above compares real screenshots of the two modes.
Easy setup
Download the installer for your operating system. It checks for Obsidian and installs it if needed, installs missing EB Garamond and Cormorant Garamond fonts, then creates a new Scriptorium vault with the Lorem Ipsum sample. When Obsidian opens, choose Open folder as vault and select the folder printed by the installer.
- Windows installer — open the downloaded
.cmdfile. - macOS installer — run
bash ~/Downloads/Install-Scriptorium-macOS.commandin Terminal. - Linux installer — run
bash ~/Downloads/Install-Scriptorium-Linux.shin Terminal. Requirescurlandunzip. New Linux installs use the official x86-64 or ARM64 AppImage and require AppImage support.
Restart any running Obsidian windows after installation so newly installed fonts are loaded.
Manual setup
The download includes a Lorem Ipsum sample with a title, subtitle, quotation, and headers. Extract the ZIP and open its folder as a vault in Obsidian. Install EB Garamond and Cormorant Garamond for the intended typography, then open Lorem Ipsum in Reading view. Setup instructions are included. Enable the bundled community plugins to use the Fancy mode switch.