Hi! When using Emacs in a terminal that supports 256 colors (such as the built-in terminal on macOS), the faces diff-added and diff-removed look the same. They are defined to have a background color of #eeffee and #ffeeee, respectively, in light background mode. When a diff is viewed in a terminal, they are both rendered using light grey background, so it's impossible to distinguish between them. In Emac 26, they were defined using #ddffdd and #ffdddd, respectively, which is rendered fine in the terminal (on both Emacs 26 and 27). One way to solve this is to add alternative color definitions using the "min-colors" requirement. Another is to go back to the old values. -- Anders Lindgren In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0, NS appkit-1504.83 Version 10.12.6 (Build 16G29)) of 2019-05-01 built on mbp.lan Repository revision: 7dafbe3ab91e838803a84ab388bca03ff985e312 Repository branch: master System Description: Mac OS X 10.12.6 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. delete-backward-char: Text is read-only Quit Mark saved where search started Making completion list... Configured using: 'configure --with-gnutls=no' Configured features: NOTIFY KQUEUE ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS THREADS PDUMPER GMP Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_SE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Apropos Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils misearch multi-isearch help-mode cl-loaddefs cl-lib apropos smerge-mode vc-dispatcher vc-svn diff-mode easymenu easy-mmode term/xterm xterm elec-pair tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 56669 7188) (symbols 48 6625 1) (strings 32 17368 1666) (string-bytes 1 565596) (vectors 16 7835) (vector-slots 8 78808 10720) (floats 8 25 439) (intervals 56 860 4) (buffers 992 14))