A dependency-free, pywal-based, automatic, terminal-aware Emacs color-picker and theme generator.

Updates

• ewal-doom-themes have been added!
• ewal-wal-json-file has been renamed to ewal-json-file.
• ewal-load-wal-colors has been renamed to ewal-load-colors.
• ewal-get-color has been renamed to ewal-load-color. ewal--get-color has now been exposed as ewal-get-color. Both functions do the same thing, except that ewal-load-color will always call ewal-load-colors first, while ewal-get-color expects the user to do so first, for a marginal performance improvement.
• ewal-spacemacs-theme-*-high-contrast have been deprecated. To achieve the same effect (setq ewal-shade-percent-difference 10)

TODOs

• Add ewal-doom-themes screenshots.

Overview

A theme isn’t just a colorscheme. ewal lives by that. It uses pywal as a backend to spruce up your Emacs setup by default, but also sports over 200 built in palettes to do so if you don’t use the program (or shudders, you use a DOS system).

It adds extra shades to pywal palettes and makes your Emacs look sexy in a GUI and in a terminal (pywal users only). ewal-spacemacs-themes shows what ewal can do in 400 flavors of spacemacs-theme and doom-themes, while ewal-evil-cursors spices up, well, your evil cursors. It also provides a function to colorize spaceline accordingly. All these packages (with the excepton of doom themes) are available on MELPA.

Screenshots

GUI

Terminal

Usage

These are the fundamentals. For more detail, see the docstrings.

Get a color and a specific shade (+ for ligther, - for darker):

(ewal-load-color 'magenta +4)

Use built-in palettes if your pywal theme fails to load (otherwise you just get a black-and-white theme and something about color being nil):

(setq ewal-use-built-in-on-failure-p t)

Always use built-in palettes:

(setq ewal-use-built-in-always-p t)

Pick a built-in palette:

(setq ewal-built-in-palette "sexy-material")

Set custom folder and custom filename for pywal scheme (if you use wpgtk or keep your own palette somewhere on your system):

(setq ewal-json-file "~/path/to/cache-file")

Use special cursor for insert state when evil insert bindings are disabled:

(setq ewal-evil-cursors-obey-evil-p t)

My config with all its warts:

(use-package ewal
  :init (setq ewal-use-built-in-always-p nil
              ewal-use-built-in-on-failure-p t
              ewal-built-in-palette "sexy-material"))
(use-package ewal-spacemacs-themes
  :init (progn
          (setq spacemacs-theme-underline-parens t
                my:rice:font (font-spec
                              :family "Source Code Pro"
                              :weight 'semi-bold
                              :size 11.0))
          (show-paren-mode +1)
          (global-hl-line-mode)
          (set-frame-font my:rice:font nil t)
          (add-to-list  'default-frame-alist
                        `(font . ,(font-xlfd-name my:rice:font))))
  :config (progn
            (load-theme 'ewal-spacemacs-modern t)
            (enable-theme 'ewal-spacemacs-modern)))
(use-package ewal-evil-cursors
  :after (ewal-spacemacs-themes)
  :config (ewal-evil-cursors-get-colors
           :apply t :spaceline t))
(use-package spaceline
  :after (ewal-evil-cursors winum)
  :init (setq powerline-default-separator nil)
  :config (spaceline-spacemacs-theme))