I'd suggest using your mouse less - you can increase your speed more with the keyboard than you can with the mouse. There are a number of looks that emacs can

I'd suggest using your mouse less - you can increase your speed more with the keyboard than you can with the mouse. There are a number of looks that emacs can have, from emacs -nw (runs in your terminal emulator) to emacs with GTK. And there are colour themes within each. M-x color-theme-select