When putting down ideas or solving problems on paper we seldom use a lot of colors, so why do we need our editor to look like a christmas tree?

Mindre (which is the Swedish word for “less”) tries to strike a good balance between usability and minimalism by almost being a monochrome theme but with a splash of color.

I highly recommend using Redshift or something similar to adjust the color temperature of your screen. Personally I have mine set to 3200K for both day and night (default is 3700K and 5500K respectively).

You can install mindre-theme from MELPA using package.el

M-x package-refresh-contents
M-x package-install RET mindre-theme RET

Or with use-package:

(use-package mindre-theme
    :ensure t
    :custom
    (mindre-use-more-bold nil)
    (mindre-use-faded-lisp-parens t)
    :config
    (load-theme 'mindre t))

(use-package mindre-theme
    :ensure t
    :straight (:host github :repo "erikbackman/mindre-theme")
    :custom
    (mindre-use-more-bold nil)
    (mindre-use-faded-lisp-parens t)
    :config
    (load-theme 'mindre t))

(setq mindre-use-more-bold nil
      mindre-use-more-fading nil
      mindre-use-faded-lisp-parens t
      mindre-faded-lisp-parens-modes '(emacs-lisp-mode lisp-mode scheme-mode racket-mode))

• Tweaks:
  • Links now use a blue color instead of the default highlight color.
  • Tags are now highlighted in notmuch instead of authors.
  • Diff deletions are now better highlighted.
  • Better looking buttons.

• Add support for the following packages:
  • ediff
  • speedbar
• New customizations:
  • mindre-use-more-fading Defaults to nil. Note that with this new default, comments are less faded than before.
  • mindre-faded-lisp-parens-modes List of modes for which faded parentheses should be enabled. You still need to set mindre-use-faded-lisp-parens t to enable faded parentheses.
• Tweaks:
  • Dired look and feel
  • Terminal colors

• Add initial support for diredfl
• Tweak dired faces
• Byte-compile fix (syohex #13)

• Fixed certain faces inheriting default background color when they shouldn’t.

• Fixed mindre-use-faded-lisp-parens not updating properly when set.

• [ ] Palette override.
• [ ] Higher contrast option.

• What fonts are used in the logo/screenshots?

  Sarasa Mono (It’s basically Iosevka) and CMU Concrete