Version 4.8.0 of package Modus-Themes has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Modus-Themes describes itself as: =============================================== Elegant, highly legible and customizable themes =============================================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/modus-themes.html ## Summary: # 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. ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE LOG OF THE MODUS THEMES FOR GNU EMACS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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. … …
