Standard Faces

This table lists all the standard faces and their uses.

default

This face is used for ordinary text.

modeline

This face is used for mode lines and menu bars.

region

This face is used for highlighting the region in Transient Mark mode.

secondary-selection

This face is used to show any secondary selection you have made.

highlight

This face is meant to be used for highlighting for various purposes.

underline

This face underlines text.

bold

This face uses a bold font, if possible. It uses the bold variant of the frame's font, if it has one. It's up to you to choose a default font that has a bold variant, if you want to use one.

italic

This face uses the italic variant of the frame's font, if it has one.

bold-italic

This face uses the bold italic variant of the frame's font, if it has one.

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