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Top 23 Shell Theme Projects
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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Project mention: Ditch Oh-My-Zsh Bloat: How I Built zload for Sub-Millisecond Terminal Startup | dev.to | 2026-09-29If you use Zsh, chances are you started with Oh-My-Zsh. It is a fantastic gateway into the Zsh ecosystem, but over time, terminal startup slows to a crawl.
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iTerm2-Color-Schemes
Our next-generation, interactive app is currently in beta! Come try it out at terminalthemes.com! Over 600 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, Windows, Visual Studio,, Ghostty, and dozens more
I made the "Aardvark Blue" a while back[1] to solve some of the problems that most color schemes have. The goal of this theme is that:
- colors are fairly natural
- background and black are distinct
- grays are naturally ordered avoiding full black
- light and dark colors are distinct from each other
- all colors look good on background, black, dark gray, gray, white
We use this for all the screenshots on https://ratatui.rs and https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui
It's available from the usual places https://iterm2colorschemes.com/, https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/?theme=Aardvark%20Blue, built in to ghostty, extension for vscode etc.
[1]: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/417
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The terminal is iTerm, running zsh by default, with the Presto extension, which allows me to configure plugins that enhance command searches in history, improve interaction with Git, and much more. Anyone interested can check its features by following the link.
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oh-my-bash
A delightful community-driven framework for managing your bash configuration, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Oh My Bash GitHub Repository
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SaaSHub
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la-capitaine-icon-theme
La Capitaine is an icon pack designed to integrate with most desktop environments. The set of icons takes inspiration from the latest iterations of macOS and Google's Material Design.
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Termux-os
An easy-to-use Termux theme installer featuring Zsh/bash/fish shell setup and customization.
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fancy-git
That's a terminal prompt changer that shows a few cool git informations about your repository state. You can choose among different styles and enjoy all the aliases it provides you. Feel free for contributing, pull requests and issues are always welcome! ;)
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GRUB-Theme
GRUB Themes with the theme from the anime The Quintessential Quintuplets, Fate Series, Lycoris Recoil, VTuber, Game Doki Doki Literature Club, and Touhou Project :computer: :heart:
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Shell Theme discussion
Shell Theme related posts
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Ditch Oh-My-Zsh Bloat: How I Built zload for Sub-Millisecond Terminal Startup
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Oh My Zsh now supports a configurable update cooldown
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Show HN: MiniPCs.zip (charting the pareto frontier of MiniPCs)
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Maruti-Zsh: a Custom, High-Performance Zsh Engine
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Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
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I built a Mint Green Light Theme for IDEAs (still beta)
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Terminal setup for speed & ease
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Theme projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ohmyzsh | 190,052 |
| 2 | iTerm2-Color-Schemes | 27,244 |
| 3 | .tmux | 25,419 |
| 4 | prezto | 14,570 |
| 5 | pure | 14,436 |
| 6 | papirus-icon-theme | 8,123 |
| 7 | oh-my-bash | 7,720 |
| 8 | Bibata_Cursor | 4,085 |
| 9 | la-capitaine-icon-theme | 1,992 |
| 10 | kde | 1,085 |
| 11 | refind-theme-regular | 940 |
| 12 | luv-icon-theme | 929 |
| 13 | tmux | 857 |
| 14 | gruvbox-plus-icon-pack | 797 |
| 15 | tokyo-night-tmux | 578 |
| 16 | dotfiles | 574 |
| 17 | jovial | 566 |
| 18 | Termux-os | 546 |
| 19 | fancy-git | 544 |
| 20 | GRUB-Theme | 522 |
| 21 | gnome-terminal | 501 |
| 22 | SmallSur | 189 |
| 23 | dotfiles | 188 |
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