Zenburn for Emacs is a direct port of the popular Zenburn theme for vim, developed by Jani Nurminen. It's my personal belief (and that of its many users I presume) that it's one of the best low contrast color themes out there and that it's is exceptionally easy on the eyes.
This theme uses the new built-in theming support available starting with Emacs 24.
Download zenburn-theme.el to the directory ~/.emacs.d/themes/. Add this to your
.emacs:
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes/")
Now you can load the theme with the interactive function load-theme like this:
M-x load-theme RET zenburn
Zenburn is available in both Marmalade and MELPA. You can install with the following command:
M-x package-install zenburn-theme
To load it automatically on Emacs startup add this to your init file:
(load-theme 'zenburn t)Zenburn for Emacs is already bundled into
Emacs Prelude. If you're a
Prelude user - you're probably already using Zenburn, since it's
Prelude's default color theme. You can load Zenburn at any time by
M-x load-theme zenburn.
Please, report any problems that you find on the projects integrated issue tracker. If you've added some improvements and you want them included upstream don't hesitate to send me a patch or even better - a GitHub pull request. These contributors have done so.
Cheers,
Bozhidar