Emacs Faff Theme

A light theme with a soothing warm-neutral background, built on the modus-themes framework.

The cornsilk3 background was chosen with high-end off-white notepaper in mind to avoid the glare of many light themes. The relatively dark background also allows the use of brighter backgrounds for selections and highlighting.

Features:

• Systematic color palette with WCAG AA contrast ratios
• Palette overrides via faff-palette-overrides
• Boxed magit refs, diff headers, and org agenda headers for clarity
• Gold active mode line
• Adopts refinements from ef-themes-palette-common for subtler links, cleaner search highlighting, and simpler marks/completions (see the clearly marked block in the source to revert to stock modus defaults)
• Works with modus-themes-bold-constructs, modus-themes-variable-pitch-ui, and other modus-themes options

(Screenshot shows modus-themes-bold-constructs set, per the author's preference, using the beautiful Ubuntu Mono)

Installation

;; available from melpa
(use-package faff-theme)
;; or github
(use-package faff-theme
      :vc (:url "https://github.com/WJCFerguson/emacs-faff-theme.git"))
;; then load
(load-theme 'faff t)

Variables are not highlighted

By design, variable and variable-use map to fg-main, so variables appear as plain text

To add variable highlighting, use palette overrides before loading the theme:

(setq faff-palette-overrides
      '((variable red-faint)
        (variable-use cyan-faint)))

Former non-modus version

The former ad-hoc theme, without dependencies, is available as faff-legacy theme, or from the repo at versions <4.0.

Suggestions and bug reports

Suggestions and bug reports are gratefully received. If you find something odd or unclear please submit issues or make pull requests. C-u C-x = tells you what faces are under the cursor.