Colors blind people’s eyes;

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Ch. 12 Sentence 1

Tao theme

Two uncoloured color themes for Emacs: tao-yin and tao-yang.

Installation

Tao in MELPA

`M-x package-install tao-theme`

or alternatively:

`M-x package-install-file tao-theme`

Customization

• By default tao-theme-scale-fn is tao-theme-golden-scale, and produce following colors:

#FCFCFC #FAFAFA #F6F6F6 #F1F1F1 #E8E8E8 #DADADA #C3C3C3 #9E9E9E #616161 #3C3C3C #252525 #171717 #0E0E0E #090909 #050505

You can change that:

• tao-theme-scale-fn should return 16 2-digit numbers
• tao-theme-scale-filter-fn scale filter
• tao-theme-use-height nil by default

Integration

(defun tao-palette () (tao-theme-golden-grayscale-yin-palette)), then use tao-with-color-variables like this:

(tao-with-color-variables tao-palette
  (progn
    (setq
      hl-paren-colors (list color-14 color-11 color-9 color-7 color-6)
      hl-paren-background-colors (list color-4 color-4 color-4 color-4 color-4))))

Screenshots

With some useful colors from color-identifiers and all-the-icons:

yin

yang

Release Notes

1.0.1

• [X] Fix and simplify original code
• [X] Remove dirty hacks
• [X] Add other hacks

Roadmap

• [ ] color scales: equal temperation, just intonation, etc;
• [ ] support for frame-background-mode and terminal
• [X] simplicity