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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 2.2.0 on 2026-06-21 Version 2.1.0 on 2026-01-27 Version 2.0.0 on 2025-11-09 Version 2.2.0 on 2026-06-21 ═══════════════════════════ This version contains two new themes and several stylistic refinements to existing items in the collection. Enjoy `ef-arcadia' and `ef-atlantis' themes ─────────────────────────────────────────── `ef-arcadia' is a light theme with a green, humid feel. `ef-atlantis' is a dark theme with aquatic colours. Improved style for `company' and `corfu' popups ─────────────────────────────────────────────── I have revised the colour that each theme applies to the popup background. It should now be more consistent with all other elements on display. Thanks to aikrahguzar for suggesting a review in issue 70: <https://github.com/protesilaos/ef-themes/issues/70>. The current line highlight for completions is easier to spot ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── This is the background of the selected candidate in the minibuffer while using the `vertico' package (among other similar interfaces). The colours I am now using are more consistent with their context and also work better as part of a popup completion interface, as noted above. Palette refinements for several themes ────────────────────────────────────── I have made subtle changes to a few colour values. These are fine details. The overarching goal is to be consistent throughout. Version 2.1.0 on 2026-01-27 ═══════════════════════════ This version introduces two carefully designed, legible and colourful themes: `ef-orange' (light) and `ef-fig' (dark). Both draw inspiration from the fruits they are name after. The convenience commands `ef-themes-select-dark' and `ef-themes-select-light' use the minibuffer to select+load an Ef theme that is either dark or light, respectively. The more general command is `ef-themes-select'. All screen shots of the themes are updated to reflect their current status: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes-pictures>. Remember that since version `2.0.0', the `ef-themes' are built on top of my `modus-themes'. This means that most of the changes happen to Modus and are inherited by Ef. 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ … …
