Changelog

master (unreleased)

New features

• Introduce a semantic color palette layered on top of the positional palette. Faces now reference meaning-based names like zenburn-comment, zenburn-string, zenburn-keyword, zenburn-error, and zenburn-diff-added-bg instead of zenburn-green, zenburn-red, etc. Users can remap meanings without touching the base palette via the new zenburn-override-semantic-colors-alist customization. Migrated so far: font-lock, basic success/warning, and the diff section (which also pulls the previously hardcoded diff backgrounds into named entries).
• Style the built-in error face explicitly. A handful of faces (eww-invalid-certificate, git-annex-dired-annexed-unavailable, realgud-bp-enabled-face) already inherited from it but previously picked up stock Emacs's red rather than the Zenburn palette.
• Add completion-preview support (Emacs 30+).
• Add next-error-message (Emacs 28+) and header-line-highlight (Emacs 28+).
• Add read-multiple-choice-face.
• Extend tab-line coverage with tab-line-tab-modified, tab-line-tab-special, tab-line-tab-inactive-alternate, tab-line-tab-group, tab-line-highlight, and tab-line-close-highlight.
• Extend eglot coverage with eglot-mode-line, eglot-parameter-hint-face, and eglot-type-hint-face.
• Add lsp-mode and lsp-ui support.
• Add hl-todo support.
• Add nerd-icons support.
• Add helpful support.
• Add wgrep support.
• Add multiple-cursors support.
• Add eldoc support (eldoc-highlight-function-argument).
• Add pulse support.
• Add treemacs support.
• Add breadcrumb support.
• Add denote support.
• Add jinx support.
• Add symbol-overlay support.
• Add citar support.
• Add corfu-popupinfo face.
• Add flymake-end-of-line-diagnostics-face and flymake-{error,warning,note}-echo faces.

Bug fixes

• Fix three compilation faces that were theming the wrong symbol: compilation-column-face, compilation-error-face, and compilation-warning-face are defcustoms holding face names, not faces themselves, so the theme entries did nothing. Renamed to the real faces compilation-column-number, compilation-error, and compilation-warning.
• Drop ten more dead *-face theme entries that were setting specs on defcustoms instead of faces (no behavioral effect): compilation-face, compilation-info-face, compilation-line-face, compilation-message-face, compilation-enter-directory-face, compilation-leave-directory-face, grep-context-face, grep-error-face, grep-hit-face, grep-match-face, and hl-line-face. Their real targets are either already themed under the correct name or generic faces (shadow, underline) we shouldn't override.

Changes

• Drop face entries for 13 abandoned/superseded third-party packages: ace-jump (use avy), context-coloring, dim-autoload, egg (use magit), guide-key (use which-key), highlight-symbol (use symbol-overlay), irfc, jabber-mode, linum-mode (use built-in display-line-numbers-mode), mew, nav, mumamo (use polymode), sx. Also drop variable settings for company-quickhelp and fci-rule-color (use built-in display-fill-column-indicator-mode).
• Replace the internal z-variable-pitch macro shim with a real zenburn-variable-pitch face that headings inherit from. zenburn-use-variable-pitch still toggles the default behavior (inherit variable-pitch vs default), and users can now also customize zenburn-variable-pitch directly via M-x customize-face for finer-grained control.
• Promote zenburn-use-variable-pitch, zenburn-scale-org-headlines, and zenburn-scale-outline-headlines from plain defvars to boolean defcustoms so they show up in M-x customize-group RET zenburn-theme and accept safe file-local values.
• Drop the legacy ((class color) (min-colors 89)) display-class dance and the obsolete low-color terminal fallbacks (:inverse-video, swapped fg/bg, monochrome :weight bold) for mode-line, region, diff-header, diff-file-header, hl-line, hl-line-face, and hl-sexp-face. Modern terminals all qualify as full-color, so the branching no longer earns its keep.
• Drop zenburn-height-minus-1, which has been defined but never referenced anywhere in the theme.
• Route adoc-comment-face, ledger-font-comment-face, and js2-jsdoc-type through :inherit so they track customizations to font-lock-comment-face / font-lock-doc-face.
• Expand adoc-mode support: cover all 37 faces, give title levels distinct per-level colors with optional scaling via zenburn-scale-outline-headlines, differentiate adoc-meta-face from adoc-meta-hide-face, and fix adoc-emphasis-face to render italic instead of bold.

2.9.0 (2026-03-29)

New features

• Add corfu support (with corfu-annotations, corfu-deprecated).
• Add window-tool-bar support.
• Add consult support.
• Add embark support.
• Add forge support.
• Add marginalia support.
• Add smerge support.
• Add transient support.
• Add which-key support.
• Add eglot support.
• Add missing modern Emacs faces: font-lock-number-face, font-lock-operator-face, font-lock-bracket-face, font-lock-delimiter-face, font-lock-escape-face, font-lock-function-call-face, font-lock-property-name-face, font-lock-property-use-face, font-lock-variable-use-face (Emacs 29+), mode-line-active, isearch-group-1, isearch-group-2, completions-group-title, completions-group-separator, completions-highlight, line-number-major-tick, line-number-minor-tick, tab-bar-tab-group-current, tab-bar-tab-group-inactive, tab-bar-tab-ungrouped.
• Expand doom-modeline support (from 2 to 50 faces).
• Expand vertico support (add vertico-multiline, vertico-group-title, vertico-group-separator).
• Add GitHub Actions CI for byte-compilation and theme loading.

Bug fixes

• Fix missing colon in ediff-fine-diff-Ancestor face :weight keyword.
• Fix trailing colon in ledger-font-pending-face face :weight keyword.
• Fix duplicate corfu-bar definition (second one is now corfu-border).
• Fix duplicate :weight bold in org-done, org-tag, org-todo, and org-warning.
• Replace hover-highlight inherit (from niche hl-line+ package) with direct styling in erc-highlight-face and lui-button-face.
• Fix spurious quotes in ruler-mode face :inherit values.
• Fix typo in README and upgrade URLs to HTTPS.

2.8 (2023-03-15)

Changes

• Add helm-ff-file-extension face.
• Add rmail support.
• Add tab-bar-mode support.
• Add tab-line-mode support.
• Add adoc-mode support.
• #367: Brighten org headline levels 7 and 8 to improve contrast and possibly help those with color blindness.
• Add support for ansi-color faces.
• Add support for SLY faces.

2.7 (2020-11-21)

New features

• #347: Add support for highlight-symbol and highlight-thing.
• Add helm-lxc support.
• Theme swiper-line-face and swiper-isearch-current-match.
• #330: Add centaur-tabs, doom-modeline, and solaire-mode support.
• Add notmuch support.

Changes

• #346: Make numbers in highlight-numbers blue.
• Make zenburn-add-font-lock-keywords customizable.

Bugs fixed

• #321: Scale org-document-title only if zenburn-scale-org-headlines is t.
• Fix lots of face inheritance issues on Emacs 27.

2.6 (2018-10-14)

New features

• Port scaled headings and variable pitch features from solarized
• Add parenthesis colour for paren-face
• Support for line-numbers-mode (#311)
• Add faces for org-ref (#312)
• Add support for markup-faces (covers adoc-mode) (#310)
• Add diredfl support
• Add some initial cperl custom faces
• Add hackernews support
• Add go-guru support
• Add sx support
• Add git-annex support
• Add eww certificate support
• Add missing ivy face ivy-cursor
• Add faces for merlin-mode
• Add hi-lock support
• Add cider-fringe-good-face
• Add realgud settings
• Customize company-quickhelp colors

Changes

• Use diff-refine-changed face name
• Modify diff colors
• Add more colors to palette
• Rename zenburn-green-1 to zenburn-green-2
• Make zenburn-override-colors-alist a customizable variable
• Add zenburn red/green for magit diff remove/add blocks
• Add more magit-signature-* faces
• Update hackernews face names
• Update git-commit faces
• Set the foreground color for "font-latex-script-char-face" to "zenburn-orange" (#292)

Bugs fixed

• Fix widget-field face on 24bit color text terminals
• Try boxed attribute on enable/disable bp face
• Fix background in Gnus (#271)