Nimbus

Nimbus dark theme for Emacs.

nimbus: (Latin) rainstorm, rain cloud

About

I wanted to make a theme that would bring me joy every day. I wanted something beautiful, slightly retro, yet readable and easy on the eyes. I regularly add and modify faces and am always looking to support more third-party packages.

User testimonial!

Nimbus was originally a fork of Ample.

Installing

Make sure you have set up MELPA and run:

M-x package-install RET nimbus-theme RET

Use M-x customize-themes to activate it, or put the following in your Emacs configuration file:

(load-theme 'nimbus t)

Or, if you have use-package:

(use-package nimbus-theme)

Troubleshooting

If you encounter any issues with Nimbus (such as text faces being hard to read or not appearing as expected), please try the following:

1. Restart Emacs and make sure Nimbus is the first theme you enable. Switching custom themes during an Emacs session may cause artifacts from the previous theme to remain.
2. Leave a bug report on GitHub. Please try to include screenshots as well as full instructions for reproducing your problem, including setup of the relevant mode.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome. I want to support as many third-party Emacs packages as possible. Please write issues and raise pull requests!

Contributors

• Marcin Swieczkowski [GitHub] -- The head honcho
• Jordon Biondo [GitHub] -- Creator of Ample Theme
• Davor Rotim [GitHub]
• Pierre Le Gall [GitHub]
• Bruno [GitHub]
• Jorge Araya Navarro [GitHub]
• Dario Gjorgjevski [GitHub]
• Aziz Ben Ali [GitHub]

Related Projects

• Nimbus for VSCode
• Nimbus-Pygments (for static site generators)