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Top 16 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.
We've all been there. You install Zsh, and the very next recommendation you see online is to install Oh-My-Zsh. For a long time, I did exactly that. But over time, the "magic" of heavy frameworks started to wear thin.
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iTerm2-Color-Schemes
Over 450 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, Ghostty, and many 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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Project mention: 🎨 HyDE 2025 Update: The Most Aesthetic, Dynamic, and Minimal Hyprland Experience | dev.to | 2025-09-01
# Install base build tools and git pacman -S --needed git base-devel # Clone HyDE (shallow clone) git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HyDE-Project/HyDE ~/HyDE # Move into Scripts and install cd ~/HyDE/Scripts ./install.sh
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dotfiles
rice 🍚 custom linux config files. as seen on r/unixporn #noricenolife neovim cultist. dotfiles are perpetual wip (by xero)
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Solarized-Dark-for-Xcode
Solarized Dark Theme for Xcode. Compatible with all modern versions of Xcode since 2013!
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AnberThemes
EmulationStation theme manager for small screen devices running ArkOS, TheRA, RetroOZ, JELOS, UnofficialOS or ROCKNIX
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DRL Theme
This repository contains 🎨 My Xcode theme that I use. It is compatible with all versions of Xcode.
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walh-shell
A fast, modern shell theme switcher for Zsh & Bash. 30+ curated palettes, instant color changes, and tmux support.
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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Theme projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ohmyzsh | 187,949 |
| 2 | iTerm2-Color-Schemes | 26,976 |
| 3 | bash-it | 15,093 |
| 4 | HyDE | 9,211 |
| 5 | dotfiles | 2,254 |
| 6 | theme.sh | 950 |
| 7 | Solarized-Dark-for-Xcode | 369 |
| 8 | AnberThemes | 159 |
| 9 | OpenCanopy-Generator | 91 |
| 10 | tinted-shell | 86 |
| 11 | ubuntu-mate-artwork | 41 |
| 12 | DRL Theme | 21 |
| 13 | vscode-theme-dark-blood | 17 |
| 14 | polybar-theme | 7 |
| 15 | xzmsg | 3 |
| 16 | walh-shell | 1 |
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