Do you still need monospace fonts in org mode?
After all the changes above, you will have nice, proportional fonts in your Org buffers. However, there are some things for which you still want monospace fonts! Things like source blocks, examples, tags and some other markup elements still look better in a fixed-spacing font, in my opinion.
How can I customize the face of Org?
Customizing Org faces is straightforward: You can also customize faces on the fly by just calling the customize-face command with the cursor on the face you want to customize. the variable org-hide-leading-stars can be configured so that only one star is shown at the start of each heading.
How to change the appearance of an Org page?
By default, title, author, date and email lines appear in dark blue with the initial keywords greyed out. The title is in a larger font than the others. To change this, customize the faces In addition, the variable org-hidden-keywords can be used to make the corresponding keywords disappear.
What can I do with org mode in Emacs?
Fortunately, org-mode has an extremely granular face selection, so you can easily customize them to have different elements shown in the correct font, color, and size.
Which is the best theme for org mode?
I use the Gruvbox theme (in the meantime I have switched to the light Spacemacs theme) and org-mode has very decent syntax highlighting.
What does org mode look like in gruvbox?
To wet your appetite, here is what a fragment of my init.org file looked like with the Gruvbox theme: And this is how it looks now with the light Spacemacs theme: My first step was to make org-mode much more readable by using different fonts for headings, hiding some of the markup, and improving list bullets.
Why do paragraphs not work with proportional fonts?
One thing you will notice right away with proportional fonts is that filling paragraphs no longer makes sense. This is because fill-paragraph works based on the number of characters in a line, but with a proportional font, characters have different widths, so a filled paragraph looks strange: