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vic/rebecca-theme

The purple turtle theme for Spacemacs
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/vic/rebecca-theme
vic/rebecca-theme.json
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  "pushedAt": "2025-07-15T04:28:35Z",
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  "updatedAt": "2025-11-12T13:02:34Z",
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The future was cooler in the 80’s.

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Made with Spacemacs

MELPA

Rebecca is a dark emacs theme with purple/violet colors.

Main accent color is Rebecca Purple and a personal loving tribute to the life of Rebecca De La Rosa.

Works best with this soundtrack and Liam Wong’s photos as background.

Screenshots

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Rebecca, the purple turtle.

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emacsplus on OSX

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running on terminal

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TERM=xterm-24bits
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on tmux in iterm2 with emacs patched for 24bit colors, vimpowerline

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TERM=screen-256color
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on Android inside termux

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Rebecca at emacsthemes.com

Installation

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With Spacemacs

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Rebecca is now included in spacemacs’ theme-megapack.

To set it as default just add it to the top of themes preference on your ~/.spacemacs file:

dotspacemacs-themes '(
   rebecca
)

Or activate it using the theme switcher:

SPC T s rebecca [RET]

From MELPA

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M-x package-install [RET] rebecca-theme [RET]
M-x load-theme [RET] rebecca [RET]

Manually

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put rebecca-theme.el in either the custom-theme-directory or load-path.

You can apply the theme via M-x customize-themes, or make it the default by adding the following to your Emacs configuration:

   (load-theme #'rebecca t)

Term color scheme

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The Rebecca color scheme has been ported to iterm2 and many other terminals.

Also, some base16-rebecca iterm colors can be found here

Emacs terminal 24bit colors

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For getting the best experience on terminal, I’d recommend to use an emacs patched with 24bit color support.

Instructions for getting emacs with 24bit colors can be found here

Wezterm

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Wezterm includes the rebbeca theme by default, to enable it use something like the following on your $XDG_HOME/.config/wezterm/wezterm.lua file:

local wezterm = require 'wezterm'
local config = {}
config.color_scheme = 'rebecca'
return config

Zellij

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A port of this theme for zellij can be found here