(elisp)Faces


Faces
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   A "face" is a named collection of graphical attributes: font family,
foreground color, background color, optional underlining, and many
others.  Faces are used in Emacs to control the style of display of
particular parts of the text or the frame.

   Each face has its own "face number", which distinguishes faces at
low levels within Emacs.  However, for most purposes, you refer to
faces in Lisp programs by their names.

 - Function: facep object
     This function returns `t' if OBJECT is a face name symbol (or if
     it is a vector of the kind used internally to record face data).
     It returns `nil' otherwise.

   Each face name is meaningful for all frames, and by default it has
the same meaning in all frames.  But you can arrange to give a
particular face name a special meaning in one frame if you wish.

Standard Faces: The faces Emacs normally comes with.
Defining Faces: How to define a face with `defface'.
Face Attributes: What is in a face?
Attribute Functions: Functions to examine and set face attributes.
Merging Faces: How Emacs combines the faces specified for a character.
Font Selection: Finding the best available font for a face.
Face Functions: How to define and examine faces.
Auto Faces: Hook for automatic face assignment.
Font Lookup: Looking up the names of available fonts
Fontsets: A fontset is a collection of fonts

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