Emacs: how to get the default theme?

Question

I\'ve been using the default theme with about 10 faces changed via custom-set-faces for a while now. But from time to time I want to try out a couple of the custom

Answer 1

This is like a year after the original, but just solved a similar problem by M-x customize-face then entering default.

Customize Face: Default will give you a GUI with options for things like font, foreground and background colors, etc.

Go to the top area marked Operate on all settings in this buffer: and click on Revert and in the dropdown, Erase Customizations.

Finally, reload/evaluate your .emacs or init.el file.

This worked for me, while trying to manually disable (almost all) themes and float around .el files hadn't.