modus-themes 
- Description
- Elegant, highly legible and customizable themes
- Latest
- modus-themes-4.5.0.0.20241007.133219.tar (.sig), 2024-Oct-07, 1.57 MiB
- Maintainer
- Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
- Website
- https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes
- Browse ELPA's repository
- CGit or Gitweb
- Badge
- Manual
- modus-themes
To install this package from Emacs, use package-install or list-packages.
Full description
Modus themes for GNU Emacs
IMAGES HERE: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-pictures.
Highly accessible themes, conforming with the highest standard for colour contrast between background and foreground values (WCAG AAA). They also are optimised for users with red-green colour deficiency.
The themes are very customisable and provide support for a very wide range of packages. Their manual is detailed so that new users can get started, while it also provides custom code for all sorts of more advanced customisations.
Since August 2020, the original Modus themes (modus-operandi,
modus-vivendi) are built into Emacs version 28 or higher. Emacs 28
ships with modus-themes version 1.6.0. Emacs 29 includes version
3.0.0. Emacs 30 provides a newer, refactored version that
thoroughly refashions how the themes are implemented and customized.
Such major versions are not backward-compatible due to the limited
resources at my disposal to support multiple versions of Emacs and of
the themes across the years.
- Package name (GNU ELPA):
modus-themes - Official manual: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes
- Change log: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-changelog
- Colour palette: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-colors
- Sample pictures: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-pictures
- Git repositories:
- Backronym: My Old Display Unexpectedly Sharpened ... themes.
Old versions
| modus-themes-4.5.0.0.20241004.74841.tar.lz | 2024-Oct-04 | 218 KiB |
| modus-themes-4.5.0.0.20241002.123136.tar.lz | 2024-Oct-02 | 217 KiB |
| modus-themes-4.5.0.0.20240921.61614.tar.lz | 2024-Sep-21 | 217 KiB |
| modus-themes-4.5.0.0.20240908.43927.tar.lz | 2024-Sep-08 | 217 KiB |
| modus-themes-4.5.0.0.20240826.64701.tar.lz | 2024-Aug-26 | 215 KiB |
| modus-themes-4.4.0.0.20240811.50238.tar.lz | 2024-Aug-11 | 214 KiB |
| modus-themes-4.3.0.0.20240317.64717.tar.lz | 2024-Mar-17 | 208 KiB |
| modus-themes-4.1.1.0.20230529.51324.tar.lz | 2023-May-29 | 199 KiB |
| modus-themes-3.0.0.0.20221028.45155.tar.lz | 2022-Oct-28 | 138 KiB |
| modus-themes-1.7.0.0.20211220.213131.tar.lz | 2021-Dec-20 | 122 KiB |
News
This document contains the release notes that are included in each tagged commit on the project's main git repository: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes.
The newest release is at the top. Since the notes are meant to be in plain text format, I copy them verbatim.
For further details, please consult these additional resources:
- Manual
- https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes
- Screenshots
- https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-pictures
4.5.0 on 2024-08-21
The themes are in a stable state. They cover a wide range of packages and interfaces, while they are highly configurable. The present version provides further scope for customisation as well as some quality-of-life refinements.
Users can now extend the palette of each/all themes
In addition to palette overrides, users can now define extensions for
the palette of each theme or for all themes. The idea is to define new
colours while keeping the existing ones intact. Then, those colours
can be accessed in all the usual ways via (i) the
modus-themes-with-colors macro, (ii) the function
modus-themes-get-color-value, and (iii) in the palette override user
options.
I wrote about this on my website: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-06-25-emacs-modus-themes-user-palette/.
And, as always, the manual is the up-to-date reference for everything you need.
The relevant user options are the following:
modus-themes-common-palette-usermodus-operandi-palette-usermodus-operandi-tinted-palette-usermodus-operandi-deuteranopia-palette-usermodus-operandi-tritanopia-palette-usermodus-vivendi-palette-usermodus-vivendi-tinted-palette-usermodus-vivendi-deuteranopia-palette-usermodus-vivendi-tritanopia-palette-user
More colours to chose from in customisations
A big part of the themes' customisability is the palette overrides users can implement. The manual covers lots of examples. The short version is that the user can change how, say, the mode lines look, what an Org heading looks like, and so on.
We now have a new pair of background and foreground colours, namely,
bg-clay and fg-clay, as well as foreground values to complement
their already existing background counterparts: fg-ochre,
fg-lavender, fg-sage.
"Graph" colours look a bit better in context
Each theme's palette contains a subset of colour values that are
intended for use in graphs. One well-known package where those are
applied is the org-habit consistency block.
I tweak a few colours in this subset to make them look better side-by-side as well as in other combinations. This concerns all the light themes.
The indicator for minibuffer recursion has a different style
This concerns the number shown next to the minibuffer prompt while in
a recursive minibuffer (per minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode and
related settings to enable minibuffer recursion). Before, the style
was like a mouse highlight, which could be confusing in certain
situations. Now it is an unambiguous coloured background that still
stands out nicely.
The kmacro-menu faces are also supported
These are the marks we see while using the interface provided by the
built-in command kmacro-menu (alias list-keyboard-macros).
The vtable will respect the user choice for "mixed fonts"
The vtable face will be rendered in a monospaced font (technically,
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