Omarchy Keyboard Reference Card

Omarchy has a lot of excellent shortcuts. Remembering all of them is another matter.

This unofficial community project puts the useful ones on a beautifully typeset, six-panel keyboard reference card you can print, fold, and keep beside your keyboard.

Its retro look reaches past pixel art and gaming nostalgia to the technical reference cards of the late 1980s and early 1990s: dense, restrained, typographic, and made to live beside a keyboard. Built in LaTeX on top of Donald Knuth's TeX, it is designed first as a printed object—not merely a PDF.

Download the printable PDF:

• US Letter
• A4

Both sides of the US Letter card; the A4 edition uses the same six-panel layout.

Print in landscape at 100%, double-sided, flipping on the short edge. Use the PDF made for your paper size so the three folding panels line up correctly.

What is on the card?

The card is a compact, two-sided guide to Omarchy's window management, system controls, application launchers, capture tools, themes, Tmux, Ghostty, Neovim, and more. It complements the official Omarchy Hotkeys manual with something you can hold in your hands.

• Native layouts for US Letter and A4 paper
• Six panels designed to fold into thirds
• Curated defaults that are checked against Omarchy upstream
• Personal overrides that stay separate from project updates
• LaTeX sources and reproducible builds

Make it yours

Create a private, Git-ignored customization file and list the available binding IDs:

make personalize
make list-bindings

For example, personalize.tex can replace a shortcut without changing the distributed defaults:

\SetBinding{notes}{Super+Shift+J}{notes -- Joplin}

See Customizing the card for bindings, personal rows, fonts, titles, and the complete customization API.

Build from source

Install Tectonic and run:

make

The Letter and A4 PDFs are written to build/. make check verifies both two-page documents; make render creates page images for visual inspection. Poppler's pdfinfo and pdftoppm are required for those checks. Build only one paper size with make letter or make a4.

Kept current

Omarchy evolves, and the card is intended to evolve with it. Automated checks compare its curated bindings with a pinned upstream revision, while a weekly drift check flags newer changes for review. See Maintaining the card for the audit and release workflow, or Contributing to help.

Inspiration and license

The physical format is inspired by Stephen Gildea's classic GNU Emacs Reference Card. This project has an independent LaTeX implementation and does not incorporate the GNU card's TeX or Emacs binding content.

The project is available under the MIT License, matching Omarchy's license. See Third-party notices for provenance and font licensing.