Version 1.11.0 of package Ef-Themes has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Ef-Themes describes itself as: =========================== Colorful and legible themes =========================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ef-themes.html ## Summary: # Ef (εὖ) themes for GNU Emacs IMAGES HERE: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes-pictures>. The `ef-themes` are a collection of light and dark themes for GNU Emacs whose goal is to provide colorful ("pretty") yet legible options for users who want something with a bit more flair than the `modus-themes` (also designed by me). + Package name (GNU ELPA): `ef-themes` + Official manual: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes> + Change log: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes-changelog> + Sample pictures: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes-pictures> + Git repositories: + GitHub: <https://github.com/protesilaos/ef-themes> + GitLab: <https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/ef-themes> + Backronym: Eclectic Fashion in Themes Hides Exaggerated Markings, Embellishments, and Sparkles. ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE LOG OF THE EF THEMES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This document contains the release notes for each tagged commit on the project's main git repository: <https://github.com/protesilaos/ef-themes>. The newest release is at the top. For further details, please consult the manual: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes>. Table of Contents ───────────────── Version 1.11.0 on 2025-09-25 Version 1.10.0 on 2025-04-29 Version 1.11.0 on 2025-09-25 ════════════════════════════ This version introduces minor refinements to a stable package. Support for faces added to Emacs 31 ─────────────────────────────────── Emacs 31 is the current development target of Emacs. The new faces are `header-line-inactive', `package-mark-delete-face', `package-mark-install-face', `minibuffer-nonselected'. Mode lines are a bit easier to spot ─────────────────────────────────── The active and inactive mode lines now have a subtle box/border around them on graphical Emacs. In non-graphical sessions, an underline is applied instead. This makes mode lines easier to stand out even when the buffer is showing a background that is of a similar colour to their own background. The Custom interface buttons are more refined ───────────────────────────────────────────── These are the buttons that appear in the Custom buffers that we reach through various means such as `M-x customize'. Like with the mode lines, they use a box/border around where possible, else fall back to an underline. The current date in the `M-x calendar' always looks the same ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Before, it would look different if the Calendar was produced via `M-x calendar' as opposed to the Org date selection interface. This is because they apply different faces to the current date. Those are now reworked to look the same. Notmuch message summary headers have clear dividers ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── In the Notmuch email client, the messages in a thread can be collapsed/minimised to just a heading. Those used to have only a subtle background, which would be enough to differentiate them from the body of the email but not from each other when all were collapsed. Now the themes add an overline to each heading, if supported by the underlying display engine (i.e. graphical Emacs), which should make it easier to spot them. Links in the header line of Info buffers do not have an underline ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── This is because the header line has a distinct background already, so we want to avoid exaggerations. The commands `ef-themes-rotate' and `ef-themes-load-random' can be silent ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── They now accept an optional `SILENT' parameter that inhibits the message they otherwise print. Thanks to Sean Devlin for the contribution in pull request 59: <https://github.com/protesilaos/ef-themes/pull/59>. Note that any function can be silenced with something like this: ┌──── │ (defun my-wrapper-of-some-function () │ (let ((inhibit-message t)) │ (some-function))) └──── Version 1.10.0 on 2025-04-29 ════════════════════════════ This version introduces minor refinements to an already stable package. The palette preview uses a tabulated interface ────────────────────────────────────────────── The commands `ef-themes-preview-colors' and `ef-themes-preview-colors-current' produce a preview of the given theme's palette. In the past, we were using a bespoke buffer for this task, just how the built-in command `list-colors-display' does it. Now we rely on the built-in `tabulated-list-mode' to get a cleaner … …
