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Swatch Book

A printer's colour-matching fan deck.

Solomon in the Swatch Book theme: a long essay beside the draft it feeds, in two split panes.
fig. 1 — Writing. A long essay beside the draft it feeds, in two split panes.
Solomon in the Swatch Book theme: a callout, a table, tasks, math and code in one note, with the outline and backlinks open.
fig. 2 — Structure. A callout, a table, tasks, math and code in one note, with the outline and backlinks open.
Solomon in the Swatch Book theme: the whole vault as a graph: thirty-five notes and their links.
fig. 3 — Graph. The whole vault as a graph: thirty-five notes and their links.
§ the idea

Your vault as a printer's colour-matching fan deck: every folder a full-bleed colour chip with a coded caption strip, every note a graded tint band on its folder's blade, and the open note one large off-white chip. Flat abutting colour and Inter Tight captions only — no outlines, no shadows, no textures.

Install it

  1. Open the Store from the left rail in Solomon (or press ⌘9) and choose Themes.
  2. Find Swatch Book and click Install. It lands in your vault’s Themes/ folder.
  3. Choose it under Settings → Appearance. The default look is one click away there too.

Solomon is a free download for macOS. Get the app

Mode
Light only
Type
  • Inter Tight
Palette
Credits
  • SIL Open Font License 1.1

This package ships no pictures. Every colour field, chip, band, swatch square and the colour-control bar is drawn in CSS from flat colour; the four-chip mark in the title band is four gradient stops. The "SOL" codes and colour names ("Lamp Violet", "Scholar White" …) are the theme's own invented vocabulary, in the manner of a printer's fan deck; they are not any colour-matching system's trademarks or values.