The joy of malleable products

I like a clean look and good typography. In Obsidian, I enjoy writing with typewriter scrolling and looking around the graph. The way it looks and feels is part of why I like using it. I enjoy being able to change those details to suit my taste.

That is also something I like about Omarchy and open-source tools. There is room to make them my own, to have a say in how they look and behave. Choosing colours or adjusting how something works can be enjoyable in itself. I like using the tool, and I like getting into the details of it.

“Malleable products” is a name for that kind of thing: tools I can shape around my taste and the way I want to use them. Some of those choices might only matter to me. I still find value in being able to make them.

I made Mounty, a CSS theme for Obsidian, as one expression of that taste. It brings together the clean look, typography, and light and dark colours I like. A separate, optional companion plugin, Mounty-tool, adds typewriter scrolling and graph-colour controls.

Annotated Mounty dark-theme Obsidian demo vault showing the file sidebar, writing area and graph view.
Mounty’s dark theme in a public demo vault with illustrative content.

I want that look and those tools to help people enjoy using Obsidian and learning. I enjoy the building itself too. Making something valuable, at least for me, is already a reason to do it. Mounty gives me something concrete to shape, use, and share with anyone whose taste overlaps with mine.

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