---
title: "My Astro Themes"
description: "The Astro themes I've made for publishing straight from Obsidian with Vault CMS and Zeku, from the free Astro Modular to Axis, Coffer, and Continuum."
published: 2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["tech","vault-cms","astro","obsidian"]
url: "https://davidvkimball.com/posts/my-astro-themes"
---
[Vault CMS](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/vault-cms-use-obsidian-to-write-astro-blog-posts) turned Obsidian into the place I write this whole site. Since then I've built a handful of Astro themes on the same idea: **your vault is the site.** The links, embeds, callouts, and tags you write in Obsidian show up on the web the way you wrote them.

Every theme here works with Vault CMS and [Zeku](https://zeku.dev), my writing app for Astro sites if you'd rather not use Obsidian. Zeku is $39 once, with a 14-day free trial. One theme is free, and the other three are one-time purchases on my [store](https://davidvkimball.com/store).

## Astro Modular

![Astro Modular using its minimal preset](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/my-astro-themes/astro-modular.webp)

[Astro Modular](https://github.com/davidvkimball/astro-modular) is the free, open-source one. It's designed to look however you want: start from the minimal preset or turn on every feature it has, like a graph view, a command palette, and embedded Obsidian Bases. A dedicated settings plugin lets you change all of it from inside Obsidian.

I wrote more about it in [Cool Astro Minimal Blog Themes](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/cool-astro-minimal-blog-themes#astro-modular). You can [preview it here](https://astro-modular.netlify.app).

## Axis

![The Axis theme home page in dark mode](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/my-astro-themes/axis.webp)

Axis is a premium theme for personal publishing, and it's the closest of the bunch to [what this site looks like](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/the-history-of-my-personal-website#2026-design). It's the one to pick if you want a full-featured blog with room for projects and docs.

- 17 color themes with dark mode
- Projects and documentation sections
- Linked mentions between posts, a graph view, and a command palette
- Image galleries, Giscus comments, and three home page layouts

[Live demo](https://astro-axis.netlify.app), [docs](https://docs.vaultcms.org/themes/axis/), and it's $49.99 on the [store](https://davidvkimball.com/store#axis).

## Coffer

![Coffer with three notes open side by side as stacked panes](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/my-astro-themes/coffer.webp)

Coffer publishes your vault as a **digital garden**: short notes that link to each other, instead of long posts in a feed. Click a link and the note opens in a pane beside the one you came from, so you can follow a thread without losing your place.

- Stacked panes for every link you follow
- Sidenotes in the margin and backlinks at the end of every note
- A graph of every note and tag, plus search
- Obsidian Bases render as tables, cards, or lists

[Live demo](https://coffer-theme.netlify.app), and it's $29.99 on the [store](https://davidvkimball.com/store#coffer).

## Continuum

![Continuum's panorama home page](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/my-astro-themes/continuum.webp)

Continuum is the newest. It's inspired by Metro, the design language of Windows Phone and Zune. Your home page is a panorama that pans like a Windows Phone hub, and when you tap a post, its title lifts out of the list and flies up to become the header of the page you opened.

- A panorama home page with a giant title and a background that drift as it pans
- The continuum transition between lists and pages, and back
- Live tiles that turn over to show their covers
- Twenty Windows Phone accent colors, in dark or light
- Everything works without JavaScript, and visitors who ask for less motion get none

[Live demo](https://continuum-theme.netlify.app), and it's $29.99 on the [store](https://davidvkimball.com/store#continuum).

## The Bundle

If you want all of it, [Axis, Coffer, Continuum, and Zeku together](https://davidvkimball.com/store#bundle) are $99, against $148.97 bought one at a time. One license key downloads the themes and activates Zeku, on up to 3 computers.

## Which One Should You Pick?

- **Want it free, or want to tweak everything?** Astro Modular.
- **Want a full blog with projects and docs?** Axis.
- **Write lots of short, linked notes?** Coffer.
- **Want your site to have fluid animations and motion?** Continuum.

If you build something with one of these, [send it my way](https://davidvkimball.com/contact). I'd love to see it.

## Linked mentions

- [Cool Minimal Astro Blog Themes](https://davidvkimball.com/posts/cool-astro-minimal-blog-themes)