Top 23 color-theme Open-Source Projects

1. nord

   1 85 6,794 1.7 SCSS

   An arctic, north-bluish color palette.

   

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3. aura-theme

   2 3 3,795 6.3 TypeScript

   ✨ A beautiful dark theme for your favorite apps.

   

4. vim

   3 14 2,583 0.0 Vim Script

   An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Vim theme. (by nordtheme)

   

5. iceberg.vim

   4 22 2,365 0.0 Vim Script

   :antarctica: Bluish color scheme for Vim and Neovim

   

6. vivid

   5 8 2,222 6.3 Rust

   A themeable LS_COLORS generator with a rich filetype datebase

   

   Project mention: vivid: A themeable LS_COLORS generator with a rich filetype datebase | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-12

7. leonardo

   6 1 2,114 5.4 JavaScript

   Generate colors based on a desired contrast ratio

   

8. putty-color-themes

   7 2 1,199 10.0 JavaScript

   PuTTY Color Themes

   

9. visual-studio-code

   8 2 1,123 0.0 JavaScript

   An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Visual Studio Code theme.

   

10. srcery-vim

    9 10 892 5.3 Vim Script

    An occult color scheme for (n)vim. Perform your dark magick using clearly defined contrasting colors with a pinch of earthly tint for that lived-in feel.

    

11. solarized-emacs

    10 9 831 4.8 Emacs Lisp

    The Solarized colour theme, ported to Emacs.

    

12. ayu-colors

    11 2 829 4.2 TypeScript

    The ayu color scheme as a color palette

    

    Project mention: I couldn't find an Ayu Mirage theme for JetBrains — so I built an aesthetic engine instead | dev.to | 2026-03-27

    I wanted something different. I love the Ayu palette — its warmth, its restraint, its purpose. Every color in Ayu has a job. Markup is coral, keywords are orange, strings are lime, entities are blue — and they're all tuned for contrast and harmony, not flash.

13. emacs-kaolin-themes

    12 5 810 4.8 Emacs Lisp

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

    

14. Rickrack

    13 1 687 8.3 Python

    Generate harmonious colors freely.

    

15. ChromaColorPicker

    14 0 569 0.0 Swift

    :art: An intuitive iOS color picker built in Swift.

    

16. gnome-terminal

    15 5 503 2.6 Shell

    An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant GNOME Terminal color theme.

    

17. alacritty

    16 2 486 0.0 JavaScript

    An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Alacritty color scheme. (by nordtheme)

    

18. themecreator

    17 3 420 0.0 Clojure

    https://mswift42.github.io/themecreator/ create themes for intellij, textmate, textadept, atom, emacs, vim and gnome terminal.

    

19. vim-monokai-tasty

    18 1 393 4.9 Vim Script

    VIM Colour scheme

    

20. vim-enfocado

    19 12 370 4.8 Vim Script

    How themes should be.

    

21. terminal-app

    20 1 365 2.1 JavaScript

    An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Terminal.app color theme. (by nordtheme)

    

22. xresources

    21 3 319 1.6 JavaScript

    An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Xresources color theme.

    

23. Evol-ColorPicker

    22 0 299 4.0 JavaScript

    jQuery UI widget for color picking with web colors, theme colors, and history (similar to the one in Microsoft Office 2010). (by evoluteur)

    

24. toast.vim

    23 5 162 0.0 Vim Script

    🍞 Toast! A colorful, medium-contrast color scheme with full Vim and Neovim support and automatic light and dark variants. Easy to read without frying your retinae.

    

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