spacemacs/layers/+themes/theming

Theming layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
• Usage
  • Example
• Attributes
• Faces
• Headers
• Example

Description

This layer allows for a simple way of modifying themes.

Features:

• Modify themes from your .spacemacs.
• Tweak face attributes and other aspects of themes.
• Includes three additional layer variables for tweaking headings.

Install

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add theming to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Usage

To use this layer, set the value of theming-modifications (a good place is inside your .spacemacs in dotspacemacs/user-init()). It should be a list of the following form:

  ((theme1 (face1 attributes...)
           (face2 attributes...)
           ...)
   (theme2 (face1 attributes...)
           (face2 attributes...)
           ...)
   ...)

Example

  (defun dotspacemacs/user-init ()
    (setq theming-modifications
          '((monokai
             ;; Font locking
             (font-lock-comment-face :slant italic)
             (web-mode-html-attr-name-face :inherit font-lock-variable-name-face
                                           :foreground nil)
             ;; Modeline
             (powerline-active1 :box (:color "#999999"
                                      :line-width 1
                                      :style released-button)
                                :background "#5a5a5a")))))

Source: gist

This will apply the given attributes to the relevant faces whenever the appropriate theme is loaded. To update without changing the theme, use SPC SPC spacemacs/update-theme.

Attributes

See face attributes in the Emacs manual for more information. Some of the more common attributes you might want to tweak are the following:

• the name of a face to inherit attributes from
• Hexadecimal color strings
• typically a floating point number (1.0 gives the same height as the underlying face)
• typically bold or normal
• typically nil or t
• typically oblique, italic or normal
• set to t to draw a box around characters in the foreground

Faces

To see a list over all loaded faces and what they look like, use SPC SPC list-faces-display. You can also use SPC h d c (describe character) on a character to see its face.

Some of the most common faces to modify are the syntactical elements:

• font-lock-builtin-face
• font-lock-comment-delimiter-face
• font-lock-comment-face
• font-lock-constant-face
• font-lock-doc-face
• font-lock-function-name-face
• font-lock-keyword-face
• font-lock-preprocessor-face
• font-lock-string-face
• font-lock-type-face
• font-lock-variable-name-face
• font-lock-warning-face

As well as the mode-line faces for the active and inactive windows:

• powerline-active1
• powerline-active2
• powerline-inactive1
• powerline-inactive2
• mode-line
• mode-line-inactive

Headers

This layer includes three additional layer variables for tweaking headings. Allowed values are a list of themes in which the given effect should happen, or the symbol all to apply it on all themes.

• inherits all headings from the default face to avoid non-monospaced fonts
• sets the :height attribute to one on all headings to give them the same size as the rest of the text
• sets the :weight attribute to bold on all headings

Example

An example of how to set the default font colour to be black in a custom theme leuven:

  (defun dotspacemacs/user-init ()

    ; custom theme modification - overriding default font colour
    (setq-default
      theming-modifications
        '((leuven
            (default :foreground "#000000")
         ))
    )

  )