Kaolin themes for GNU Emacs

Kaolin is a set of eye pleasing themes for GNU Emacs with support for a large number of modes and external packages.

Kaolin theme variants

All screenshots are available in the wiki on the following pages:

• kaolin-dark - a dark jade variant inspired by Sierra.vim
• kaolin-light - light variant of the original kaolin-dark.
• kaolin-aurora - Kaolin meets polar lights.
• kaolin-bubblegum - Kaolin colorful theme with dark blue background.
• kaolin-eclipse - a dark purple variant
• kaolin-galaxy - bright theme based on one of the Sebastian Andaur arts.
• kaolin-ocean - a dark blue variant.
• kaolin-temple - dark background with syntax highlighting focus on blue, green and pink shades
• kaolin-valley-dark - colorful Kaolin theme with brown background.
• kaolin-valley-light - light variant of kaolin-valley theme.

Further themes

WIP

These themes might be changed in the future.

• kaolin-blossom - theme focus on orange and purple with dark background.
• kaolin-breeze - Light Kaolin theme with soft colors.
• kaolin-mono-dark - almost monochrome dark green Kaolin theme.
• kaolin-mono-light - light variant of monochrome theme.
• kaolin-shiva - Kaolin theme with autumn colors and melanzane background.

Planned

TBD

p.s. Bold means that a theme was added to master.

Installation

MELPA

To install the Kaolin themes pack via package.el: M-x package-install RET kaolin-themes RET

Quick start

(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))

Configuration

Information about configuring Kaolin themes is available in the project wiki.

Advanced highlighting

• highlight-numbers — highlight numbers in source code.
• highlight-quoted — highlight Lisp quotes and quoted symbols.
• rainbow-delimiters — mode which highlights delimiters such as parentheses, brackets or braces according to their depth.
• highlight-defined — highlight known Emacs Lisp symbols.

Mode-line

The mode-line config isn't a part of the Kaolin theme, you can find my telephone-line config here.