You can change the foreground and background colors or other properties of a face using Customize. – MichaelMason (May 30, 2001, comp.emacs) Customizing Faces The ones you will be more likely to want to change are those starting ‘font-lock-’, such as ‘font-lock-keyword-face’. You’ll get a display of the currently-defined Faces. Cursor faces are OS dependent (fixed in v24)įrom the Edit menu, choose Text Properties and then Display Faces.How To Tell Customize That Something Has Changed.How To Revisit Faces You've Changed (To Save Changes).