Themes
You can select a different theme or cycle through the currently added themes.
| Spacemacs | Description |
|---|---|
SPC T n |
Next theme in list |
SPC T p |
Previous theme in list |
SPC T s |
Select theme from list (all themes from gallery) |
SPC T s C-c C-f |
Apply themes when srolling through the list of names (helm-follow-mode) |
Adding Themes to Spacemacs
Themes are included by adding the theme name to the dotspacemacs-themes list. The first theme in the list is loaded when Spacemacs starts.
dotspacemacs-themes '(doom-gruvbox-light
doom-gruvbox
spacemacs-dark
spacemacs-light
cyberpunk)
The order of the themes in the list is the order Spacemacs will cycle through those themes, SPC T n for the next theme and SPC T p for the previous theme.
The first time you select a theme it will be automatically downloaded, installed and used. This may take a few seconds to load.
Doom Gruvbox Themes used for this guide
This guide uses the doom-gruvbox-light theme for screenshots and videos, some older screenshots are doom-solarized-light or spacemacs-dark.
Example themes
There are many themes available for Spacemacs that will change the colours of text, background, etc.
Original Emacs theme ?
Add (disable-theme) to dotspacemacs/user-config section of .spacemacs to remove any custom theme and use the Emacs default colors. Or set (dotspacemacs-themes '(default)) in .spacemacs to use a theme similar to the Emacs colors.
This guide uses the minimal theme provided by doom modeline and doom-gruvbox-light theme.
Doom Solarized Light is also an excellent theme for working during the day, as well as presentations and videos due to a lighter color set having a better contrast.
Doom Solarized Dark is a good theme for darker environments.
Spacemacs has two default themes included, one light and one dark. There are also many themes available that you can select and load on demand, SPC T s.
The cyberpunk theme used a very striking color palette, familiar to those who use to use Emacs Live distribution (now deceased).
