Colourless themes for Emacs

Originally published on Sunday 19.03.2023

The colourless themes are a collection of “primarily colourless themes". This was forked from Tomas Letan's macro of the same name.¹

Installation

Install this how you would install a package from github - this varies with the flavour of Emacs or the setup in use. If you use a Frankenstein's monster like I use, do:

(use-package colourless-themes
  :straight (:host sourcehut
   :repo "peregrinator/colourless-themes")

  :config
  ;;optionally loading a theme
  (load-theme 'beelzebub t))

Usage

Temporarily set it with M-x load-theme, or via M-x customize-themes. To make it persistent, see Installation. Disable any other themes to ensure a colourless experience.

Featured themes

Themes offered besides those from upstream are

Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles is an original dark theme with yellow and green foreground, again inspired by Stanislav Karkavin's vim theme mentioned above.

Beelzebub

beelzebub A dark, purplish colourscheme based on Stanislav Karkavin's vim theme: vim-beelzebub

Nofrils

nofrils, Emacs ports faithful to the original nofrils themes. These have a few more colours than the others.

Nofrils Acme

Nofrils Dark

Footnotes:

The macro is a rework of theirs — an opinionated take perhaps? Find their source code at ~lthms/colorless-themes.el