Version 5.1.0 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> 5.1.0 on 2025-11-07 ═══════════════════ This version fixes a critical bug in the `modus-themes-with-colors' macro. In short, it was not working as before or was not working at all. Now it should do the right thing. Thanks to Alexandr Semenov for reporting a relevant bug in issue 170 and for helping me test the results: <https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/170>. Thanks to Stéphane Marks for testing some configurations with the latest stable Emacs version as well as with builds from emacs.git. This was done via a private channel and I am sharing this information with permission. Also thanks to Stefan Monnier for monitoring my commits as I was trying to refactor the `modus-themes-with-colors' macro. Some comments were posted on the emacs-devel mailing list, as well as a patch that I ended up applying and then reverting (check the commit log for the technicalities): <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-11/msg00114.html>. Apologies to everyone for the inconvenience! This was a tricky bug. The good thing is that it compelled me to improve several parts of the code. This version also includes a clarification in the manual about building a theme on top of Modus: Web page Visit <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes#h:86eb375b-9be4-43ce-879a-0686a524a63b>. Info manual Evaluate `(info "(modus-themes) Build on top of the Modus themes")'. In short, it mentions that a theme exists in an appropriately named file that is part of the `custom-theme-load-path'. Thanks to Ashton Wiersdorf for asking a related question in issue 171: <https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/171>. 5.0.0 on 2025-11-01 ═══════════════════ This is a major release. There are some small breaking changes. The big new feature is that Modus can be used as the basis for other theme projects. Two of my other theme packages, the `ef-themes' and the `standard-themes' are already done in this way: their next major versions will formalise what I have been developing for a while now (though the `doric-themes' will remain their own thing for the time being). Build on top of Modus ───────────────────── This is of immediate interest to package developers or advanced users. It changes nothing for existing users of the Modus themes. Please refer to the manual on the matter and feel welcome to contact me if you have any questions—I am happy to help. Evaluate: ┌──── │ (info "(modus-themes) Build on top of the Modus themes") └──── Or visit: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes#h:86eb375b-9be4-43ce-879a-0686a524a63b>. Why build on top of Modus? To benefit from (i) the wide face coverage and extensive detail-oriented testing, (ii) the use of palette mappings, (iii) the palette preview done with `modus-themes-list-colors' or related, (iv) the inclusion of the derivative theme in the workings of all Modus commands that load a theme, like `modus-themes-rotate' and `modus-themes-select' (see the new minor mode `modus-themes-include-derivatives-mode'). Derivative themes can be as simple as a few extra colours on top of, say, `modus-operandi'. They can also be more involved, with new palette mappings and custom faces that use them. Such themes can … …
