Retroma Callouts Cheatsheet

Nav

Cheatsheets

Every callout the Retroma theme (v3.1.1) defines, read straight from .obsidian/themes/Retroma/theme.css. 79 retro types plus the 27 standard Obsidian ones.

These only render while Retroma is the active theme

They are theme-provided, not vault-provided. Switch to Things or Minimal and every one of these falls back to a plain callout. The text is never lost.

Syntax

> [!polaroid-1] Title goes here
> 
> Body text.

Sizes — every retro callout takes -s, -m or -l. No suffix uses the theme default.

> [!cassette-1-s] Small
> 
> [!cassette-1-m] Medium
> 
> [!cassette-1-l] Large
> 

Folding — standard Obsidian modifiers work throughout. + starts expanded, - starts collapsed.

> [!blueprint]- Collapsed by default
> 
> Hidden until clicked.

No title — omit the title and the header bar disappears.

> [!polaroid-2]
> 
> Just the frame, no caption.

---

Live examples

Switch this note to Reading view to see these render.

Summer 1987

A polaroid frame with a caption strip.

Mixtape Vol. 1

Side A. Medium size.

boot.log

> SYSTEM READY

Don't forget

Sticky notes come in seven colours.

Assembly drawing

Large blueprint, for diagrams and schematics.

TOTAL — 12.40

Receipt styling, right down to the perforation.

---

Photo & film

8 types — all accept -s / -m / -l.

film	filmstrip	negative	photoalbum
photomount	photoslide	polaroid-1	polaroid-2

Media & hardware

21 types — all accept -s / -m / -l.

arcademarquee	calculator	cassette-1	cassette-2
eurorack	floppy	highscore	marquee
matrixstream	pager-1	pager-2	pagerunit
pcbboard	punchedtape	radio	reeltoreel
tamagotchi	terminal	transistor	vinyl
walkietalkie

Office & stationery

28 types — all accept -s / -m / -l.

artpostcard	clipboard	dailycalendar	duedate
filingtab	graphmemo	gridnotebook	indexcard
indextab	kraftpaper	krafttag	legalpad
library	luggagetag	mailbox	matchbook
museumtag	news	notepad	postcard-1
postcard-2	receipt-1	receipt-2	scrapbook
ticketstub	toploader	touristcard	visastamp

Sticky notes

7 types — all accept -s / -m / -l.

stickynote-blue	stickynote-green	stickynote-indigo	stickynote-orange
stickynote-red	stickynote-violet	stickynote-yellow

Academics & journaling

10 types — all accept -s / -m / -l.

blueprint	chalkboard	compbook	fieldnote
flashcard	inspection	labnotebook	librarycard
ruler	typewriter

Vintage & tactile paper

4 types — all accept -s / -m / -l.

cardboard-cutout-shape	passport-stamp	typewriter-page	vintage-ticket

---

Standard Obsidian callouts

Retroma restyles these too, and they keep working under any theme:

note	abstract	summary	tldr
info	todo	tip	hint
important	success	check	done
question	help	faq	warning
caution	attention	failure	fail
missing	danger	error	bug
example	quote	cite

Vault-specific

nav is ours, not Retroma’s — defined in .obsidian/snippets/nav-buttons.css. It renders its links as a row of pill buttons and is what every note’s footer uses.

> [!nav]
> 
> [[cs-hub|Computer Science]]

One thing to know

readability.css restyles callouts, but only the 27 standard types listed above — explicitly, by name. That is deliberate: a blanket rule would flatten all 79 retro designs, since snippets load after the theme and win on equal specificity.

Source

• Theme: emarpiee/Retroma
• Upstream examples: retroma-retro-callouts.md

Nav

Cheatsheets