Spaceink

Installation

(use-package spaceink-theme
  :load-path "/path/to/spaceink-theme"
  :config
  (load-theme 'spaceink t))

Using colors

The function spaceink-theme-with-colors returns the colors of spaceink-theme-palette by their label, so you can use it elsewhere. For example, to make specific Org mode tags have a distinct color:

(setopt org-tag-faces
        (spaceink-theme-with-colors
          `(("@work"     . ,red+1)
            ("@home"     . ,orange+1)
            ("@computer" . ,green+1))))

Export color scheme

In spaceink-export.el, there are functions to export the spaceink color scheme to other formats.

Xresources

The function spaceink-export-xresources exports the color scheme to Xresources format.

• spaceink-theme.Xresources

If you wish to use spaceink colors in the terminal, add the following line at the end of your ~/.Xresources file:

#include "/path/to/spaceink-theme.Xresources"

And reload the file:

xrdb -load  ~/.Xresources

Alacritty

The function spaceink-export-alacritty exports the color scheme to Alacritty terminal configuration format.

• spaceink-theme.toml

To use spaceink colors in Alacritty, add an import to your alacritty.toml:

[general]
import = [
    "~/.config/alacritty/spaceink-theme.toml"
]

Base16

The function spaceink-export-base16 exports the color scheme to Base16 format.

• spaceink.yaml

Color generator

spaceink-colors.el (or sic) contains functions for generating the color shades used by spaceink.

It depends on ct.el or the command-line tool pastel. The commands sic-use-ct-commands and sic-use-pastel-commands define which backend will be used.

This package is not required by the theme: it’s just the tool I’ve been using to generate and manipulate colors. The function sic-adjust is probably the most useful one, as it returns a given color adjusted by hue, saturation and lightness.

History

Several years ago, I settled with inkpot-theme as my preferred theme. It was an early version of the theme, where the colors were hardcoded in faces definitions (there were no color variables).

As I kept tweaking it to my liking, gradually diverging from the original, I felt the need to set the colors variables myself. I then borrowed the main structure and package support from spacegray-theme, which I also used at the time, to make up my new theme. Hence the name spaceink.

For most of the time I used pastel to manipulate colors in the terminal. More recently I decided to write the sic color generator to not get lost in color commands and transformations while also being able to “reproduce” the same colors again.

spaceink has changed a lot over time, but is somewhat stable for the past year or so. That’s why I finally decided to publish it :)