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Recently I updated my Emacs setup and decided to go for a more minimal color theme. Especially on long coding nights you want a theme without distracting colors.

Configuration

Just paste this code into your emacs condiguration:

 (set-face-attribute 'default nil
                     :background "grey20"
                     :foreground "grey90")

 (set-face-attribute 'modeline nil
                     :background "grey10"
                     :foreground "grey90")

 (set-face-attribute 'cursor nil
                     :background "white")

 (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-builtin-face nil
                     :foreground "grey60")

 (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-comment-face nil
                     :foreground "grey60")

 (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-constant-face nil
                     :foreground "grey60")

 (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-keyword-face nil
                     :foreground "white")

 (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-string-face nil
                     :foreground "white")

 (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-variable-name-face nil
                     :foreground "lightblue")

 (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-function-name-face nil
                     :foreground "lightblue")

 (set-face-attribute 'region nil
                     :background "#111")

Additional faces

If you use speedbar or elscreen, you can set additional faces:

(set-face-attribute 'speedbar-file-face nil
                    :foreground "white")

(set-face-attribute 'elscreen-tab-background-face nil
                    :background "grey10"
                    :foreground "grey90")

(set-face-attribute 'elscreen-tab-control-face nil
                    :background "grey20"
                    :foreground "grey90")

(set-face-attribute 'elscreen-tab-current-screen-face nil
                    :background "grey20"
                    :foreground "grey90")

(set-face-attribute 'elscreen-tab-other-screen-face nil
                    :background "grey30"
                    :foreground "grey60")