zenburn-emacs vs shanty-themes

zenburn-emacs

The Zenburn colour theme ported to Emacs (by bbatsov)

shanty-themes

The shanty emacs theme is meant for us, you and me - the workers - who may not get dirty hands very often but love to code and tinker while looking at a screen full of pleasant colors. (by qhga)

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zenburn-emacs		shanty-themes
	Project
6	Mentions	1
968	Stars	32
-	Growth	-
4.6	Activity	0.0
30 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Emacs Lisp	Language	Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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zenburn-emacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of zenburn-emacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.

What is your favorite color scheme?
10 projects | /r/emacs | 6 Jun 2023
Could you please suggest theme for Emacs + Org mode?
23 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Aug 2022
The theme from projectile's github README?..
2 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Jan 2022

Here's the link to the theme's repo https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs
Dracula Theme: a dark theme for 227 different apps
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2021
More Emacs archaeology: xenomacs? Circa 2000?
3 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Apr 2021

zenburn theme - Around since at least the mid-2000s when I first picked it up but not sure if it's Year 2000 old.

shanty-themes

Posts with mentions or reviews of shanty-themes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

shanty-themes is now also available on melpa
1 project | /r/emacs | 4 Apr 2022

Link to the github repo with installation instructions and screenshots: https://github.com/qhga/shanty-themes

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zenburn-emacs and shanty-themes you can also consider the following projects:

xenops - An editing environment for LaTeX mathematical documents

stimmung-themes - emacs tuned to inner harmonies

vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor

nimbus-theme - Nimbus dark theme for Emacs. Beautiful, slightly retro, yet readable and easy on the eyes.

macos-terminal-themes - Color schemes for default macOS Terminal.app

emacs - 🍄 Soothing pastel theme for Emacs

emmet-mode - emmet's support for emacs.

emacs-kaolin-themes - Set of eye pleasing themes for GNU Emacs. Supports both GUI and terminal.

cascadia-code - This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.

emacs-humanoid-themes - Light and dark theme with bright colors for Emacs that supports GUI and terminal

poet - An emacs theme that's well suited for modes using variable pitch: particularly org-mode and markdown-mode.