A Gruvbox Theme for Roam Research

One of the fun things about Roam Research is that you can very easily style the appearance of your database using CSS.

I've been fond of the gruvbox color-scheme for a while, so I've built one for Roam. I'm using Azlen Elza's incredible Zenith theme as a basis for it - the result looks like this:

Gruvbox Light Theme — Figure 1: Gruvbox Light

The above graphic also shows you how to install the theme and the adjustments I've made.

First, what you need is a page called [[roam/css]]. On that page, you'll create a code block with styling css to import the Zenith theme, and then a code block to add the adjustments. Here's what you copy paste into the first code block:


@import url('https://azlen.github.io/roam-themes/zenith.css');

Gruvbox Light Theme for Roam Research

Here are the adjustments for getting the Gruvbox color theme. You can either use the Light or Dark theme. First, the code for the Light theme:


@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fira+Sans:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap');	

:root {
    --header-font: "Fira Sans", "Inter", sans-serif;
    --body-font: "Fira Sans", "Inter", sans-serif;
    
    --bg-color: #ebdbb2;
    --page-color: #fbf1c7;
    
    --text-color: #3c3836;
    --icon-color: #665c54; /* #5c7080 */
    --bullet-color: rgba(214,93,14, 0.6);
    
    --page-shadow: 0px 8px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
    
    --color-primary: 152,151,26;
    --color-primary-contrast: #3c3836;
    --color-secondary: 204,36,29;
    /*--color-secondary: 255, 165, 0;*/
    --color-secondary-contrast: #3c3836;
       
}

.rm-embed-container {
  background-color: rgba(152,151,26, 0.3) !important;
}

Gruvbox Dark Theme for Roam Research

And here is the code for the Gruvbox Dark Theme for Roam:


@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fira+Sans:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap');	

:root {
    --header-font: "Fira Sans", "Inter", sans-serif;
    --body-font: "Fira Sans", "Inter", sans-serif;
    
    --bg-color: #282828;
    --page-color: #3c3836;
    
    --text-color: #fbf1c7;
    --icon-color: #a89984; /* #5c7080 */
    --bullet-color: rgba(131,165,152, 0.6);
    
    --page-shadow: 0px 8px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
    
    --color-primary: 184,187,38; /* #ebdbb2*/
    --color-primary-contrast: #fbf1c7;
    --color-secondary: 254,128,25;
    /*--color-secondary: 255, 165, 0;*/
    --color-secondary-contrast: #8ec07c;
       
}

.rm-embed-container {
  background-color: rgba(102,92,84, 0.5);
}