Batppuccin: My Take on Catppuccin for Emacs

I promised I’d take a break from building Tree-sitter major modes, and I meant it. So what better way to relax than to build… color themes? Yeah, I know. My idea of chilling is weird, but I genuinely enjoy working on random Emacs packages. Most of the time at least…Some BackgroundFor a very long time my go-to Emacs themes were Zenburn and Solarized – both of which I maintain popular Emacs ports for. Zenburn was actually one of my very first open source projects (created way back in 2010, when Emacs 24 was brand new). It served me well for years.But at some point I got bored. You know the feeling – you’ve been staring at the same color palette for so long that you stop seeing it. My experiments with other editors (Helix, Zed, VS Code) introduced me to Tokyo Night and Catppuccin, and they’ve been my daily drivers since then.Eventually, I ended up creating my own Emacs ports of both. I’ve already published Tokyo Night for Emacs, and I’ll write more about that one down the road. Today is…