Fringe icons colors are reversed and the icons are also reversed left-right. This can be reproduced by running 'emacs -Q' then resizing the window so that the *scatch* buffer comments are wrapped. A screenshot is attached. This was discussed in the emacs-devel mailing list here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-07/msg00180.html There are proposed patched in the thread. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0, NS appkit-1348.17 Version 10.10.5 (Build 14F27)) of 2015-09-25 Repository revision: feddb99afd5692ad7baf2e5675a35b88ff6987ae Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1348 Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/info/emacs --with-file-notification=gfile --with-xml2 --without-dbus --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick --enable-checking --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' LDFLAGS=-ggdb3' Configured features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction 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 blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [31 times] Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core 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 charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev 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 gfilenotify cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 80816 6065) (symbols 48 18766 0) (miscs 40 38 136) (strings 32 13193 5190) (string-bytes 1 377636) (vectors 16 10552) (vector-slots 8 393820 6475) (floats 8 121 191) (intervals 56 205 1) (buffers 976 11))