Custom Emacs themes

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Yet another Emacs theme?

We are talking about GNU Emacs here.

GNU software are “Supported by the Free Software Foundation” and the FSF is a proponent of free software. Since one of the corner stones of free software is contribution I didn’t want to just consume Emacs.

Now I am no wizard in writing Emacs Lisp. Far from it. However I wanted to create a few packages that might be of use to me and to some other people – how ever little the number is.

Creating a theme seems a good starting point, right?

The themes

timu-caribbean-theme

Color theme with cyan as a dominant color.

See the readme file for customization options.

timu-macos-theme

Color theme inspired by the macOS UI.

This theme has a dark and a light “flavour”. Customize timu-macos-flavour to control it.

For further information on the theme you can take a look at the readme file.

timu-rouge-theme

Color theme inspired by the Rouge Theme for VSCode.

You can read up on the options of the theme in the readme file.

timu-spacegrey-theme

Emacs color theme inspired by the Spacegray theme in Sublime Text.

This theme also has a dark and a light “flavour”. You just have to customize the variable timu-spacegrey-flavour.

There are a few more options to this theme. You can find these in the readme file.

Credit & inspiration

Note: There are Emacs ports of some of these themes already, however I wanted support for more packages and a few different colors/faces. I also will be slowly adding more and more customization options.

Conclusion

I know there is already an immense amount of themes available in the various package archives.

Still, creating these themes has been quite a lesson for me to get to know some of the infrastructure around Emacs. Plus I can now write a little more Emacs Lisp. Worth it!