Colorscheme with clearly defined contrasting colors and a slightly earthy tone.

Project status: Looking for contributers or maintainers

Project is no longer in active development, I plan to further support this theme with bugfixes and minor issues but no new additions will be added unless contributors/maintainers can be found. If you’d like to contribute, please introduce yourself on the maintainers wanted issue.

Requirements

Emacs 24 or above

GUI

Should work out of the box.

Terminal

To use Srcery in the terminal you need to change your terminal emulator’s so-called “ASCII” colors to the ones in the table below.

TERMCOL	NR	HEX	RGB
black	0	#1C1B19	28, 27, 25
red	1	#EF2F27	239, 47, 39
green	2	#519F50	81, 159, 80
yellow	3	#FBB829	251, 184, 41
blue	4	#2C78BF	44, 120, 191
magenta	5	#E02C6D	224, 44, 109
cyan	6	#0AAEB3	10, 174, 179
white	7	#BAA67F	186, 166, 127
bright-black	8	#918175	145, 129, 117
brright-red	9	#F75341	247, 83, 65
bright-green	10	#98BC37	152, 188, 55
bright-yellow	11	#FED06E	254, 208, 110
bright-blue	12	#68A8E4	104, 168, 228
bright-magenta	13	#FF5C8F	255, 92, 143
bright-cyan	14	#2BE4D0	43, 228, 208
bright-White	15	#FCE8C3	252, 232, 195

See srcery-terminal repository for a list of terminal configs.

In addition to the table above Srcery uses a few unmodified xterm colors. Since most terminals have these defined it pads out the color selection nicely without over complicating things.

Make sure your $TERM supports 256 colors.

Installation

Package.el

Srcery is available from MELPA

M-x package-install RET srcery-theme

Then load it with

M-x load-theme srcery

Or add this to your init file:

(load-theme 'srcery t)

Spacemacs

Either install using package-install or add srcery-theme to dotspacemacs-additional-packages, then add srcery to dotspacemacs-themes

(setq-default
 dotspacemacs-additional-packages
 '(srcery-theme)
 dotspacemacs-themes
 '(srcery))

Screenshots

Lisp

paren-face is used to color parenthesis.

Python / JavaScript

Rust / Magit

Org / C

Customization

Srcery has a couple of options that can be tweaked via M-x customize:

srcery-org-height

boolean, default: t

This toggles the use of varying org headings heights.

srcery-invert-matches

boolean, default: nil

Toggles whether to inverse-video search matches.

Make sure your cursor is inverted if this is enabled as otherwise it will make the cursor difficult to spot.

srcery-invert-region

boolean, default: t

Toggle inverse video for region

srcery-transparent-background

boolean, default nil

Sets the base background color to nil, and relies on underlying terminal background color. This only works in the terminal, and the idea behind it is that you can use for example tmux to control the background color.

Custom colors

Its possible to override the base srcery colors.

Possible colors are: srcery-black, srcery-red, srcery-green, srcery-yellow, srcery-blue, srcery-magenta, srcery-cyan, srcery-white srcery-bright-black, srcery-bright-red, srcery-bright-green, srcery-bright-yellow, srcery-bright-blue, srcery-bright-magenta, srcery-bright-cyan, srcery-bright-white srcery-orange, srcery-bright-orange, srcery-hard-black, srcery-gray-1, srcery-gray-2, srcery-gray-3, srcery-gray-4, srcery-gray-5.

Bear in mind that changing these will not work in termninal. Set your term colors to whatever you wish to override.

Supported modes

• company
• ein
• erc
• gnus
• helm
• ido
• info
• magit
• mu4e
• neotree
• org
• evil-snipe
• paren-face
• cider
• dired
• diredfl
• flycheck
• ivy
• latex
• powerline
• spaceline
• and others, more coming

Troubleshooting

Work in progress

This theme is a work in progress, if you see something that is off or doesn’t work please open an issue so it can be fixed.

org-bullets and transparent background

When setting the variable srcery-transparent-background and you are using org-bullets the leading asterisks are colored white, which does nothing to hide them. The problem is that org-bullets sets the :forground color to the default background color, but when this is nil this issue arise. I’ve made a fork that uses the org-hide face, fixing this issue. There is also an open pull request that addresses this.

Attribution

I’m new to elisp, so I used the spacemacs-theme as a base for emacs-srcery. Huge thanks to everyone involved with that theme, and Spacemacs itself. I also used Monokai Emacs as a blueprint for handling 256 colors properly. Big thanks to maintainers of that theme.