Re: question about colours

> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 10:11:22 +0000
> From: Andreas Diener via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]>
> 
>    Dear Madam or Sir,
> 
>    i hope this is the right mail adress for asking for information ... an
>    earlyer question there was very kind help from one of you, but i could
>    not find the mail to look.
>    On my PC there is Debian 12 running, and it seems i don't get
>    updates/upgrades for non-system/non-Debian software for quite some time
>    now, esp. Emacs, Vim and LaTeX which i use sometimes (learning slowly).
>    My question is about settings in Emacs. On my Debian 12 it is version
>    28.2 from early 2025 (as i said, no updates from Debian since then).
>    I am using the Zenburn theme with a few different colours. I managed to
>    set the standard-text colour to a gray and cursor colour to a green
>    rectangle in my .emacs file with:
> 
>    (set-foreground-color "#b2b2b2")
>    (set-cursor-color "#5faf5f")
> 
>    I think such set-commands are quite easy to understand and i would like
>    also to change the line-numbers (current and oher) to more
>    inconspicuous colours, but with online search i couldn't find the right
>    commands (like in the examples with "set-xxx 'colour'"), and looking in
>    the Zenburn theme file, i got not clever about this.
>    Do you have an idea where to look for or perhaps the right command at
>    hand?

You should customize the line-number face.

  M-x customize-face RET line-number RET

Then change the colors of this face as you see fit.