Emacs Color Themes

color-theme-less

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color-theme-less is a very minimalistic color theme for Emacs. With a few exceptions (such as isearch) it uses only grayscale colors. Keywords and other important features are distinguished via bold or slight variations in shades of gray.

This theme was inspired by color-theme-late-night, from the Emacs color-theme package and the Less is More theme for vim. It’s mostly grayscale, brighter than late-night for use in daylight, but less colorful than Less is More.

Change Log

  • 2010–09–13 (Revision 2): More consistent colors for line highlighting.
  • 2008–11–01 (Revision 1): First release.

color-theme-subdued

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color-theme-subdued is based on the Tango color palette. It is quite colorful although the colors are subdued. This theme was inspired by color-theme-tango and color-theme-tango-2

Change Log

  • 2010–04–09 (Revision 7): Select colors for post-mode.
  • 2010–03–14 (Revision 6): Support hl-line and highlight-current-line.
  • 2009–04–03 (Revision 5): Slightly brighter comments.
  • 2009–03–10 (Revision 4): Let AUCTeX defaults take precedence.
  • 2009–03–09 (Revision 3): Fix font-latex-slide-title-face.
  • 2009–03–08 (Revision 2): (require 'color-theme).
  • 2009–03–05 (Revision 1): First release.

color-theme-gruber-darker

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color-theme-gruber-darker is a darker variant of the Gruber Dark color scheme for BBEdit.

Change Log

  • 2010–04–27 (Revision 1): First release.

Notes

Installation

To use these color themes you need the color-theme package. It can be downloaded here. On Debian GNU/Linux systems it can be installed by running

sudo apt-get install emacs-goodies-el

See also: EmacsWiki:ColorTheme.

After installing the color-theme package, download the appropriate .el file for the theme you want and place it in your load-path so that Emacs can find it. Then, add something like the following in your .emacs file:

(require 'color-theme-less)
(color-theme-less)

where color-theme-less is replaced by the name of the theme you wish to use.

Colophon

The screenshots above feature markdown-mode and the Terminus font. They are available in the Debian packages emacs-goodies-el and xfonts-terminus respectively.

The colorized HTML previews were created using the htmlize package, also available in the Debian emacs-goodies-el package.