# Turn off the bright meta?

**URL:** https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/turn-off-the-bright-meta/2174
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/turn-off-the-bright-meta/2174 "2021-11-03T18:52:25Z")
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### Author: ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/turn-off-the-bright-meta/2174/6 "2021-11-04T19:57:18Z")

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Thanks for the comments / feedback.  
I took this opportunity to extend my writing mode, and applied a couple of improvements.

Compare Figure 1 and 2 below. All I did between them is to turn on my custom `my/org-writing-mode`. I like it so I think I will try to keep it for now.

It’s a demo file I created for this post only but it is pretty close to my real notes. I don’t normally use headlines and headline-nodes, so that’s the main difference.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/orgroam/original/1X/94a1573f4d8c13c06ed4135338a67f5e62defc02.png)  
**Figure 1.** Normal Org(-roam) buffer with my writing mode off

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/orgroam/original/2X/c/c83a7c90cf5850d57a93a9be22ea7e9cf789a2f8.png)  
**Figure 2.** The same buffer with my writing mode on

- File and headline properties are hidden (toggle) with the [custom code](https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/wiki/User-contributed-Tricks#hiding-the-properties-drawer) @scotto referred to
- The keyword meta data (`#+title` and `#+filetags`) are hidden by `prettify-symbols-mode` ([source on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/estlwh/possibility_of_making_the_org_mode_less_ugly/))
- Headlines with numbers are turned on via the built-in `org-num-mode`
- The headlines stars (asterisks “\*”) are hidden by `pretty-symbols-mode` (same as meta data)
- Italics and bold syntactic markers (`"/string/"` and “`*string*`”) are hidden by setting `org-hide-emphasis-markers` – you don’t see bold because the font I use don’t have bold weight, I think
- Variable fonts are applied with `variable-pitch-mode` together with Modus Operandi theme’s mix fonts (see the source code block uses the fixed-pitch, or mono space font).
- `#+begin/end_src` directives are translated to symbols with `pretty-symbols-mode`
- All these changes are more or less modular; I can turn on/off changes separately, or apply/remove the wholes changes with a singe minor mode

For what it is worth, I extracted relevant code here [on Gist](https://gist.github.com/nobiot/5a54f89242a857e2206eabbfea3935fa). My [entire configuration here](https://git.sr.ht/~nobiot/stow/tree/main/item/emacs/.config/emacs) (I suggest Gist is easier to view; the configuration is only for my private purpose so I don’t try to make it easy to read).

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