GNU ELPA - modus-themes

modus-themes Atom Feed

Description
Elegant, highly legible and customizable themes
Latest
modus-themes-4.8.1.tar (.sig), 2025-Jul-10, 1.60 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.

Old versions

modus-themes-4.8.0.tar.lz2025-Jun-11 225 KiB
modus-themes-4.7.0.tar.lz2025-Apr-17 223 KiB
modus-themes-4.6.0.tar.lz2024-Oct-27 221 KiB
modus-themes-4.5.0.tar.lz2024-Aug-21 215 KiB
modus-themes-4.4.0.tar.lz2024-Mar-31 212 KiB
modus-themes-4.3.0.tar.lz2023-Sep-19 206 KiB
modus-themes-4.2.0.tar.lz2023-May-30 202 KiB
modus-themes-4.1.1.tar.lz2023-Feb-23 194 KiB
modus-themes-3.0.0.tar.lz2022-Oct-28 138 KiB
modus-themes-2.7.1.tar.lz2022-Oct-01 137 KiB
modus-themes-2.6.0.tar.lz2022-Aug-19 137 KiB
modus-themes-2.5.0.tar.lz2022-Aug-03 136 KiB
modus-themes-2.4.1.tar.lz2022-Jun-01 133 KiB
modus-themes-2.3.0.tar.lz2022-Apr-01 132 KiB
modus-themes-2.0.0.tar.lz2021-Dec-25 118 KiB
modus-themes-1.7.0.tar.lz2021-Nov-18 122 KiB
modus-themes-1.6.0.tar.lz2021-Sep-29 117 KiB
modus-themes-1.5.0.tar.lz2021-Jul-15 114 KiB
modus-themes-1.5.0.tar.lz2021-Jul-15 114 KiB
modus-themes-1.4.0.tar.lz2021-May-25 108 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

4.8.0 on 2025-06-11

This is a small release that corrects a mistake I made in the previous version. It also introduces some minor refinements.

Matching parentheses are easy to spot

In version 4.7.0, I made the mistake of merging some stylistic tweaks to show-paren-mode that I was experimenting with. The idea was to get a feel for how the subtle colouration of matching delimiters affects the usability of the themes. In short, it is not a good default for our purposes (though users have the option to override the applicable colours, as explained in the Modus themes manual).

Thanks to Morgan Willcock for reporting the unwanted change in issue 139: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/139.

The bg-paren-match of modus-vivendi-tinted is a bit greener

We go from #5f789f to #4f7f9f. The latter fits better with the rest of the theme.

Refined the "mail" semantic mappings of the tinted themes

This concerns message.el and anything building on top of it, like Gnus, Mu4e, and Notmuch. I made modus-operandi-tinted and modus-vivendi-tinted use two colours that are more in line with the established patterns of their respective theme. The changes are small, but contribute to a more consistent experience.

A new property semantic mapping is available

By default, it uses the same colour as the variable. Users who want to have more refined colouration in supported modes (typically involving tree-sitter), can change the relevant "palette overrides" user option we provide, such as modus-themes-common-palette-overrides or modus-operandi-palette-overrides and related.

Thanks to Alexandr Semenov for requesting this in issue 141: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/141.

My tmr package is now supported

Its faces were already consistent with the Modus themes, though now I cover them at the theme level to subject them to palette overrides.

The "ancient" Gnus messages are styled properly

Those are only ever seen if the user configures Gnus in a certain way and follows a specific workflow. They now get a subtle foreground value. This is in response to the issue 119 by sivaramn: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/119.

The modus-themes-rotate command can now go backwards

When called with a prefix argument (C-u by default), this command will rotate the modus-themes-to-rotate from right to left. Otherwise, it goes from left to right.

Thanks to Jacob S. Gordon for the contribution. It was sent as a patch as part of issue 143: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/143.

4.7.0 on 2025-04-17

This release introduces many subtle stylistic tweaks to the "tinted", "deuteranopia", and "tritanopia" theme variants. … …