Matcha-gtk-theme VS Shades-of-gray-theme

Compare Matcha-gtk-theme vs Shades-of-gray-theme and see what are their differences.

Matcha-gtk-theme

Matcha is a flat Design theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell (by vinceliuice)

Shades-of-gray-theme

[unmaintained] A flat dark GTK-theme with ergonomic contrasts (by WernerFP)
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Matcha-gtk-theme Shades-of-gray-theme
6 3
735 62
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5.8 3.7
6 months ago about 3 years ago
CSS CSS
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Matcha-gtk-theme

Posts with mentions or reviews of Matcha-gtk-theme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.

Shades-of-gray-theme

Posts with mentions or reviews of Shades-of-gray-theme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-25.
  • Low contrast dark theme with little blue light?
    1 project | /r/xfce | 25 Jan 2022
  • Fedora 34 on Zephyrus G14
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Jun 2021
    sudo dnf update reboot sudo dnf update sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf sudo dnf install gnome-tweak-tool sudo dnf install tlp tlp-rdw sudo tlp-stat -b sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm 21 sudo dnf groupupdate multimedia --setop="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin sudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-video sh -c "$(curl -sL https://nextdns.io/install)" nextdns activate sudo nextdns activate flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo sudo nextdns deactivate sudo nextdns activate sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Extensions sudo nextdns deactivate flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Extensions flatpak remove flathub org.gnome.Extensions flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Extensions flatpak remove flathub org.gnome.Extensions flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Extensions reboot sudo nextdns activate flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo flatpak install flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Materia{,-dark,-light}{,-compact} mkdir ~/Shades-of-gray-git cd ~/Shades-of-gray-git/ git clone https://github.com/WernerFP/Shades-of-gray-theme.git cd Shades-of-gray-theme/ rm -rf README.md LICENSE .git sudo cp -r * /usr/share/themes/ sudo nextdns deactivate nextdns sudo nextdns stop sudo nextdns deactivate sync reboot curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash exit nvm install nvm ls-remote nvm install v16.4.0 sudo dnf install podman alias docker="podman" sudo nano ~/.bashrc sudo dnf install stacer sudo dnf install deluge sudo dnf install nano sudo dnf install gnome-screenshot sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[code]\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo' sudo dnf check-update sudo dnf install code sudo dnf install peek sudo dnf install shutter sudo dnf install timeshift sudo dnf install mailspring sudo dnf install zsh sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" ls cd .oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k cd ~ ls zsh whoami echo $SHELL sudo usermod -s $(which zsh) vinod chsh -s $(which zsh) echo $SHELL source ~/.zshrc zsh ls exit history > history_for_print.txt sudo nano ~/.zshrc git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k\ sudo nano ~/.zshrc exit source ~/.zshrc\ chsh -s $(which zsh)\ sudo usermod -s $(which zsh) vinod echo $SHELL sudo rpm -i microsoft-edge-*.rpm sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/edge sudo mv /etc/yum.repos.d/packages.microsoft.com_yumrepos_edge.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft-edge-dev.repo sudo dnf install microsoft-edge-dev sudo dnf copr enable dawid/better_fonts -y\ sudo dnf install fontconfig-font-replacements -y\ sudo dnf install fontconfig-enhanced-defaults -y\ sync reboot
  • How to set new firefox blank tab to dark theme
    1 project | /r/i3wm | 18 Mar 2021
    You could use the Shades-of-gray-theme GTK theme, which has Firefox css tweaks to make everything dark and fit the theme (blank page, about:config, etc). It's also one of the best dark theme in my opinion.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Matcha-gtk-theme and Shades-of-gray-theme you can also consider the following projects:

Tokyo-Night-Linux - Dark theme for i3+polybar, sway+waybar, rofi, GTK, spotify and Discord based on the Tokyo Night vscode theme

papirus-icon-theme - Pixel perfect icon theme for Linux

equilux-theme - A Material Design-like theme for GNOME/GTK+ based desktop environments.

tomorrow-theme - Tomorrow Theme

monterail-dark - Monterail Dark, a Thunderbird theme inspired by the mockup of Monterail

hyper-snazzy - Elegant Hyper theme with bright colors

Adwaita-Steven - Make Adwaita Great Again! (Or, at the very least, tweakable.)

arc-theme - A flat theme with transparent elements (actively maintained fork)

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

gtk-theme - System76 Pop GTK+ Theme

eva-01 - This is a Evangelion Unit 01 inspired XFCE/gtk3 theme. It was build upon the Sakura-Dark theme.