Version 2.0.1 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). Starting with version `2.0.0`, the `ef-themes` are built on top of the `modus-themes`. This means that all customisation options of the Modus themes apply to the Ef themes. Same for all Modus commands that load a theme. Enable `ef-themes-take-over-modus-themes-mode` to set up this arrangement (or enable `modus-themes-include-derivatives-mode` instead to blend Ef and Modus into one collection). ## 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 2.0.0 on 2025-11-09 Version 2.0.0 on 2025-11-09 ═══════════════════════════ The Ef themes are now derived from my Modus themes. This means that they inherit the wide face coverage and extensive customisability of Modus, while retaining their stylistic flair. The Ef themes no longer provide any user options of their own. Each of the options we had before is now an alias for the Modus equivalent. As part of this transition, the Ef themes actually gain new customisation options, which are documented herein. Furthermore, the Ef themes do not define any commands to load a theme. What we had before is once again an alias for the equivalent Modus command. The manual of the Ef themes describes these compatibility arrangements. Further documentation and code samples are available in the manual of the Modus themes: Info page Evaluate `(info "(modus-themes) Top")'. Weg page Visit <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes>. Old user options and hooks are mere aliases for Modus options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Old name Is alias for CURRENT NAME ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ef-themes-disable-other-themes modus-themes-disable-other-themes ef-themes-to-toggle modus-themes-to-toggle ef-themes-to-rotate modus-themes-to-rotate ef-themes-italic-constructs modus-themes-italic-constructs ef-themes-bold-constructs modus-themes-bold-constructs ef-themes-variable-pitch-ui modus-themes-variable-pitch-ui ef-themes-mixed-fonts modus-themes-mixed-fonts ef-themes-headings modus-themes-headings ef-themes-completions modus-themes-completions ef-themes-prompts modus-themes-prompts ef-themes-common-palette-overrides modus-themes-common-palette-overrides ef-themes-post-load-hook modus-themes-after-load-theme-hook ef-themes-after-load-theme-hook modus-themes-after-load-theme-hook ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please read their respective documentation strings. If you use Ef and possibly other Modus derivatives, you may prefer to switch all your user options to the Modus ones. This way you can keep a unified configuration for all your themes. Fewer bold and italic faces by default, more as an opt-in clause ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── In the past, the Ef themes did not provide an option to disable the extensive use of a bold font weight and italic font slant. Whereas now those are controlled by the user options `modus-themes-bold-constructs' and `modus-themes-italic-constructs'. By default, when they are `nil', bold and italics are used only when necessary. Set these user options to `t' to have bold and italics in more places. Loading only Ef themes with the convenience wrappers we provide ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── All the old commands Ef provided for loading one of its themes will still work as before, meaning that they will only ever show and load a theme that belongs to the Ef collection. Internally, these commands are now using the Modus infrastructure and are then limiting the set of themes to the Ef collection. They are … …
