§ themes

Solomon becomes whatever surface inspires you.

A reading room after dark. A 1923 Bauhaus poster. A 1984 desktop in true 1-bit. A theme restyles all of Solomon, from the page and the sidebars to the tabs and the graph, while your notes stay the same plain files underneath.

CSS, fonts and pictures

Every theme is a folder: a stylesheet, a short manifest, and the typefaces and pictures it ships. No code runs, ever.

Installed from the Store

Pick one in the Store inside Solomon, choose it in Settings, and go back to the default look whenever you like.

Your words stay plain

A theme changes how Solomon looks, never what you wrote. Exports and printing are always unthemed.

Twenty-five themes, one vault.

Every picture is the same vault: a long essay open beside the draft it feeds. Open a theme to see its structure and graph views too.

Solomon in the Evening theme: a long essay beside the draft it feeds, in two split panes.
No. 01 · dark

Evening

The Bates Hall reading room after dark

The Bates Hall reading room after dark. A flat lamp-black ground, the page a lit column with hairline edges, sidebars as bare type, Libre Caslon on the page and the hidden markdown syntax hanging in the gutter. The hall itself stands behind the chrome as lamplight dots and recedes as you settle into a paragraph. Ships four Puvis de Chavannes panels as margin plates.

See Evening
§ make your own

A theme is a folder, not a program.

Solomon publishes the names a theme may style: the regions of the window, the states they pass through, and the colour and type tokens underneath. Write CSS against those names, bundle your fonts and pictures beside it, and describe it in a theme.json. Solomon checks the package before it applies anything.

Pictures can pass through Solomon’s own press, which dithers a photograph into dots at load in the theme’s inks, so one file serves light and dark and every width. Drop the folder into your vault’s Themes/ folder to use it yourself, or submit it to the Store.

Download for MacRead the docs
Themes/evening/
  theme.css        the look
  theme.json       modes, the room, plates, settings
  item.json        the Store listing
  CREDITS.md       who made what, and the licence
  assets/
    hall.jpg       Bates Hall, 1896, public domain
    puvis-*.jpg    four margin plates
    fonts/*.woff2  three OFL faces, licences beside
fig. 1 — everything Evening ships.