diff --git a/modules/lang/emacs-lisp/config.el b/modules/lang/emacs-lisp/config.el
index 411797add..e74dcf28b 100644
--- a/modules/lang/emacs-lisp/config.el
+++ b/modules/lang/emacs-lisp/config.el
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
     (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'delete-trailing-whitespace nil t)
 
     (eldoc-mode +1)
-    (highlight-quoted-mode +1)
     (auto-compile-on-save-mode +1)
     (rainbow-delimiters-mode +1)
 
@@ -32,6 +31,9 @@
                (not (file-in-directory-p buffer-file-name doom-emacs-dir)))
       (flycheck-mode +1))
 
+    ;; improve fontification
+    (highlight-quoted-mode +1)
+    (highlight-numbers-mode +1)
     (font-lock-add-keywords
      nil `(;; Display "lambda" as λ
            ("(\\(lambda\\)" (1 (ignore (compose-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1) ?λ #'decompose-region))))
diff --git a/modules/lang/python/config.el b/modules/lang/python/config.el
index fe4fda3c4..0633624b9 100644
--- a/modules/lang/python/config.el
+++ b/modules/lang/python/config.el
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
         python-indent-guess-indent-offset-verbose nil
         python-shell-interpreter "python")
 
-  (add-hook 'python-mode-hook #'flycheck-mode)
-
   :config
+  (add-hook! 'python-mode-hook #'(flycheck-mode highlight-numbers-mode))
+
   (set! :repl 'python-mode #'+python/repl)
   (set! :electric 'python-mode :chars '(?:))
   (define-key python-mode-map (kbd "DEL") nil) ; interferes with smartparens