Version 5.2.0 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> 5.2.0 on 2025-12-31 ═══════════════════ This version fixes some bugs, adds a new feature for those who want to derive a theme from Modus, and makes other small quality-of-life refinements. The `modus-themes-with-colors' should work at all times ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── In the transition to version `5.0.0', I inadvertently introduced regressions to the behaviour of the `modus-themes-with-colors' macro. This macro `let' binds the current theme's palette around arbitrary Elisp expressions, which allows users to access the named colours therein. In versions `5.0.0' and `5.1.0' the macro could not read variables defined outside its scope. Users needed to write an `eval' around it, which I did not like. Now the macro should not require such workarounds: it basically is a `let' that should work as expected everywhere. This was fixed over a series of Git commits related to issue 170: <https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/170>. Thanks to Alexandr Semenov and realazy for reporting the problems and testing my revisions. The `modus-themes-generate-palette' function to quickly get a palette ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Users or package developers who want to create a theme on top of Modus can now get a kickstart by defining their palette with the help of the new `modus-themes-generate-palette' function. This function is meant to return a complete palette, given a list of basic colours. Users can thus experiment with their new theme while knowing that what they got contains all the definitions; definitions that they may then modify further (e.g. to define different semantic mappings than the defaults such as, for example, to have `(fg-heading-1 red-warmer)' instead of what originally is `(fg-heading-1 fg-main)'). I have written extensive documentation in the manual, which includes a complete example of a Solarized theme that is built on top of Modus. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact me. Convenience commands to select only dark or light themes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The commands `modus-themes-select-dark' and `modus-themes-select-light' use minibuffer completion to load a theme. The completion candidates are filtered to only dark or light themes, respectively. This is effectively the same as calling the command `modus-themes-select' with a prefix argument (`C-u' by default). Remember that we also have the commands `modus-themes-load-random', `modus-themes-load-random-dark', and `modus-themes-load-random-light'. Otherwise use the command `modus-themes-rotate'. Improved prompt for theme selection ─────────────────────────────────── The minibuffer prompt used by the various Modus commands to select a theme now has a grouping function in place: it shows the current theme at the top and then all other themes grouped by their dark or light background. This makes it easier to find a relevant theme, especially if lots of them are present, such as when `modus-themes-include-derivatives-mode' is enabled and relevant packages/themes are available (e.g. my `ef-themes' and `standard-themes'). Semantic colours for `transient.el' (e.g. in Magit) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── The `transient.el' concept of "semantic colours" is now supported. This is used by default in Magit to denote the different types of keys, such as those that exit the transient, keep it active, move to another transient, and the like. Users who prefer the old style where all key bindings looked the same must customise the user option `transient-semantic-coloring'. … …
