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Kaolin is a set of eye pleasing themes for GNU Emacs with support a large number of modes and external packages.
Kaolin themes are based on the pallete that was originally inspired by Sierra theme for vim with adding some extra colors.
- kaolin-dark - a dark jade variant inspired by Sierra.vim
- kaolin-aurora - Kaolin meets polar lights.
- kaolin-bubblegum - Kaolin colorful theme with dark blue background.
- kaolin-light - light variant of the original kaolin-dark.
- kaolin-eclipse - a dark purple variant
- kaolin-ocean - a dark blue variant.
- kaolin-galaxy - bright theme based on one of the Sebastian Andaur arts.
- kaolin-valley-dark - colorful Kaolin theme with brown background.
The screenshots above use Roboto Mono and D2 Coding fonts.
(require 'kaolin-themes)
(load-theme 'kaolin-dark t)
;; Apply treemacs customization for Kaolin themes, requires the all-the-icons package.
(kaolin-treemacs-theme)
;; Or if you have use-package installed
(use-package kaolin-themes
:config
(load-theme 'kaolin-dark t)
(kaolin-treemacs-theme)) ;; The following set to t by default
(setq kaolin-themes-bold t ; If nil, disable the bold style.
kaolin-themes-italic t ; If nil, disable the italic style.
kaolin-themes-underline t) ; If nil, disable the underline style.
;; If you want to disable mode-line border, set kaolin-themes-modeline-border to nil
(setq kaolin-themes-modeline-border nil)
;; If you want to use flat underline style instead of wave
;; set kaolin-themes-underline-wave to nil
(setq kaolin-themes-underline-wave nil)
;; If you want to use the same color for comments and metadata keys
;; (e.g. for org-mode tags such as #+TITLE, #+STARTUP and etc)
;; you can disable kaolin-themes-distinct-metakeys.
(setq kaolin-themes-distinct-metakeys nil) ;; If t, enable italic style in comments.
(setq kaolin-themes-italic-comments t)
;; When t, will display colored hl-line style instead monochrome.
(setq kaolin-themes-hl-line-colored t)
;; Enable distinct background for fringe and line numbers.
(setq kaolin-themes-distinct-fringe t)
;; Enable distinct colors for company popup scrollbar.
(setq kaolin-themes-distinct-company-scrollbar t)
;; Show git-gutter indicators as solid lines
(setq kaolin-themes-git-gutter-solid t) Some themes have a kaolin-theme name-alt-bg variable to enable alternative background, for example kaolin-ocean has kaolin-ocean-alt-bg for this.
At this moment, Kaolin light themes as alt-bg use pure white color #FFFFFF.
Themes with support for alt-bg.
- kaolin-galaxy
- kaolin-valley-dark
- kaolin-ocean
- light themes: kaolin-valley-light and kaolin-light
If you want to enable alternative background, set it to t.
(setq kaolin-ocean-alt-bg t)Kaolin-themes package provides own theme for treemacs based on all-the-icons. To enable it, you can put the following string inside your config.
(kaolin-treemacs-theme)
- kaolin-themes-treemacs-hl-line - Remap hl-line face for treemacs, uses distinct foreground and default background, nil by default.
- kaolin-themes-treemacs-icons - enable predefined icons from the all-the-icons pack, t by default.
- kaolin-themes-treemacs-line-spacing - defines line-spacing for treemacs buffer, by default is 1.
You can change some faces via custom-theme-set-faces (put your theme name instead of kaolin-dark):
(custom-theme-set-faces
'kaolin-dark
'(default ((t (:background "#131b23" :foreground "#e6e6e8"))))
'(font-lock-keyword-face ((t (:foreground "#f5c791")))))Additional information about face options you can find in GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual on the Face Attributes page.
To find face name and its attributes under mouse cursor, you could use M-x describe-face.
Also you can call M-x customize-face - hit RET to customize the face at point