Start emacs -Q and evaluate the following with *scratch*. (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-face "green") (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-delimiter-face "red") Open `foo.lisp' with C-x C-f and enter as follows. #| comment |# As a result, the correct face is not assigned to the closing delimiter. #| <- font-lock-comment-delimiter-face comment <- font-lock-comment-face |# <- font-lock-comment-face <- Wrong face Occurs in Emacs 25.2, 26.1 and 27.0.60. Normally, both colors are the same, so no one may have noticed until now. I noticed recently because I was using a zenburn theme with slightly different colors. -- chuntaro