zenburn-emacs vs poet

zenburn-emacs

The Zenburn colour theme ported to Emacs (by bbatsov)

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poet

An emacs theme that's well suited for modes using variable pitch: particularly org-mode and markdown-mode. (by kunalb)

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zenburn-emacs		poet
	Project
6	Mentions	6
968	Stars	507
-	Growth	-
4.6	Activity	0.0
30 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 4 years ago
Emacs Lisp	Language	Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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zenburn-emacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of zenburn-emacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.

What is your favorite color scheme?
10 projects | /r/emacs | 6 Jun 2023
Could you please suggest theme for Emacs + Org mode?
23 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Aug 2022
The theme from projectile's github README?..
2 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Jan 2022

Here's the link to the theme's repo https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs
Dracula Theme: a dark theme for 227 different apps
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2021
More Emacs archaeology: xenomacs? Circa 2000?
3 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Apr 2021

zenburn theme - Around since at least the mid-2000s when I first picked it up but not sure if it's Year 2000 old.

poet

Posts with mentions or reviews of poet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.

Your favorite Emacs theme in 2023?
11 projects | /r/emacs | 11 Jun 2023

modus-operandi with colors adapted from poet
Using emacs as a study environment
6 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Jan 2023

I use olivetti for writing org documents (and writing any prose, really). I normally use a dark theme but I highly recommend poet for working with prose.
Assistance with Writing fiction with Emacs
6 projects | /r/emacs | 31 Jan 2022

Don't have a specific tutorial except to suggest setting org-mode to use olivetti and a nice variable pitch font for writing prose. You might also like the poet theme.
Suggest me a good (Light) Emacs color theme for text editing
2 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Jun 2021

I have written several essays in emacs with Poet theme which I find pretty comfortable for text editing
Building an E-Ink Laptop - alexsoto.dev
2 projects | /r/eink | 24 Feb 2021

Thank you! Congrats on the monitor! I'll keep you posted! Thank you for sharing nothing.el, the poet theme is also a great choice: https://github.com/kunalb/poet
Does anyone have any idea what theme this is?
1 project | /r/emacs | 19 Jan 2021

I don't know, but you could check this out too. Maybe you like it. https://github.com/kunalb/poet/raw/master/images/poet.gif

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zenburn-emacs and poet you can also consider the following projects:

xenops - An editing environment for LaTeX mathematical documents

vscode-theme-alabaster-dark - Dark version of alabaster ported from https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster

vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor

wilmersdorf-emacs-theme - An original theme with dark subtle syntax highlighting

macos-terminal-themes - Color schemes for default macOS Terminal.app

emacs-humanoid-themes - Light and dark theme with bright colors for Emacs that supports GUI and terminal

emmet-mode - emmet's support for emacs.

olivetti - Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins

cascadia-code - This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.

elegant-emacs - A very minimal but elegant emacs (I think)

shanty-themes - The shanty emacs theme is meant for us, you and me - the workers - who may not get dirty hands very often but love to code and tinker while looking at a screen full of pleasant colors.

bespoke-themes - A simple custom theme for emacs