Popular Emacs Themes

Lists generated on: August 16, 2026

MELPA

The most downloaded themes from the MELPA package archive, ranked by download count.

MELPA themes ranked by total download count
Rank	Theme Name	Downloads	Source
1	doom themes	838,364
2	zenburn theme	751,861
3	solarized theme	579,945
4	color theme sanityinc tomorrow	480,425
5	modus themes	451,131
6	spacemacs theme	359,012
7	monokai theme	351,533
8	color theme sanityinc solarized	316,577
9	leuven theme	310,778
10	gruvbox theme	295,364
11	dracula theme	281,591
12	material theme	253,157
13	moe theme	229,595
14	cyberpunk theme	203,159
15	kaolin themes	187,317
16	ample theme	186,398
17	apropospriate theme	184,432
18	tao theme	181,534
19	gruber darker theme	179,050
20	alect themes	177,431
21	darktooth theme	175,149
22	sublime themes	172,784
23	anti zenburn theme	171,909
24	inkpot theme	169,504
25	gotham theme	166,301
26	organic green theme	166,188
27	afternoon theme	157,868
28	molokai theme	156,209
29	tangotango theme	154,256
30	ujelly theme	151,721
31	tango plus theme	150,297
32	subatomic theme	149,264
33	hc zenburn theme	147,423
34	noctilux theme	147,266
35	grandshell theme	146,945
36	ample zen theme	146,850
37	flatland theme	146,560
38	soothe theme	146,426
39	flatui theme	146,010
40	jazz theme	145,888
41	spacegray theme	143,137
42	clues theme	142,775
43	naquadah theme	141,966
44	minimal theme	141,816
45	espresso theme	140,151
46	badwolf theme	140,070
47	planet theme	139,863
48	twilight theme	139,748
49	seti theme	139,347
50	cherry blossom theme	138,970
51	tango 2 theme	138,834
52	bubbleberry theme	138,667
53	darkmine theme	138,629
54	lush theme	137,980
55	phoenix dark pink theme	137,935
56	twilight bright theme	137,254
57	dakrone theme	137,003
58	twilight anti bright theme	136,849
59	heroku theme	136,841
60	birds of paradise plus theme	136,381
61	ir black theme	136,065
62	soft morning theme	135,714
63	underwater theme	135,475
64	busybee theme	135,346
65	hemisu theme	135,120
66	monochrome theme	134,937
67	gandalf theme	134,930
68	smyx theme	134,872
69	zen and art theme	134,154
70	toxi theme	133,891
71	subatomic256 theme	133,744
72	professional theme	133,642
73	django theme	133,558
74	soft charcoal theme	133,367
75	obsidian theme	133,276
76	oldlace theme	133,108
77	soft stone theme	132,993
78	purple haze theme	132,900
79	mustang theme	132,514
80	reverse theme	132,218
81	light soap theme	131,803
82	sunny day theme	131,682
83	occidental theme	131,605
84	phoenix dark mono theme	131,523
85	jbeans theme	130,210
86	darkokai theme	125,633
87	darkburn theme	119,917	Source code unavailable for darkburn theme
88	railscasts theme	118,813
89	omtose phellack theme	116,268	Source code unavailable for omtose phellack theme
90	base16 theme	112,295
91	exotica theme	104,537
92	rebecca theme	104,243
93	majapahit theme	104,181	Source code unavailable for majapahit theme
94	white sand theme	103,781
95	farmhouse theme	103,264	Source code unavailable for farmhouse theme
96	madhat2r theme	102,117
97	color theme solarized	70,250	Source code unavailable for color theme solarized
98	chocolate theme	61,992
99	eziam theme	59,359	Source code unavailable for eziam theme
100	atom one dark theme	58,348

GitHub

Public Emacs Lisp theme repositories ranked by star count.

GitHub theme repositories ranked by star count
Rank	Repository Name	Stars
1	doomemacs/themes	2,413
2	sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized	1,162
3	bbatsov/zenburn-emacs	1,078
4	protesilaos/modus-themes	896
5	bbatsov/solarized-emacs	846
6	ogdenwebb/emacs-kaolin-themes	816
7	kuanyui/moe-theme.el	774
8	fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme	767
9	greduan/emacs-theme-gruvbox	683
10	nashamri/spacemacs-theme	620
11	protesilaos/ef-themes	581
12	nordtheme/emacs	547
13	kunalb/poet	537
14	owainlewis/emacs-color-themes	512
15	oneKelvinSmith/monokai-emacs	498
16	rexim/gruber-darker-theme	477
17	purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow	462
18	catppuccin/emacs	459
19	11111000000/tao-theme-emacs	454
20	rougier/nano-theme	442
21	cpaulik/emacs-material-theme	436
22	tinted-theming/base16-emacs	417
23	dracula/emacs	352
24	waymondo/apropospriate-theme	323
25	emacsfodder/emacs-theme-darktooth	318
26	jordonbiondo/ample-theme	298
27	n3mo/cyberpunk-theme.el	279
28	NicolasPetton/zerodark-theme	278
29	jonathanchu/atom-one-dark-theme	260
30	ianyepan/tron-legacy-emacs-theme	242
31	domtronn/spaceline-all-the-icons.el	234
32	mclear-tools/bespoke-themes	219
33	Lambda-Emacs/lambda-themes	207
34	ianyepan/vscode-dark-plus-emacs-theme	188
35	motform/stimmung-themes	150
36	juba/color-theme-tangotango	148
37	challenger-deep-theme/emacs	147
38	cstby/solo-jazz-emacs-theme	145
39	srcery-colors/srcery-emacs	142
40	wasamasa/gotham-theme	137
41	mrcnski/nimbus-theme	136
42	vic/rebecca-theme	129
43	nickav/naysayer-theme.el	126
44	AnthonyDiGirolamo/airline-themes	125
45	hbin/molokai-theme	123
46	idleberg/Hopscotch	121
47	MetroWind/flucui-theme	120
48	sjrmanning/darkokai	120
49	cryon/almost-mono-themes	119
50	sjrmanning/noctilux-theme	117
51	protesilaos/doric-themes	114
52	erikbackman/mindre-theme	112
53	alezost/alect-themes	110
54	ozanvos/emacs-afternoon-theme	107
55	ronisbr/doom-nano-themes	106
56	john2x/plan9-theme.el	105
57	ianyepan/acme-emacs-theme	102
58	tek256/simple-dark	101
59	maio/eink-emacs	100
60	SavchenkoValeriy/emacs-chocolate-theme	99
61	axgfn/parchment	95
62	marktran/color-theme-ujelly	94
63	crafterm/twilight-emacs	92
64	ianyepan/wilmersdorf-emacs-theme	89
65	thblt/eziam-theme-emacs	87
66	purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized	86
67	alloy-d/color-theme-molokai	85
68	vic/color-theme-buffer-local	81
69	jonnay/org-beautify-theme	78
70	zaiste/zaiste-emacs-theme	78
71	the-frey/cyberpunk-2019	77
72	humanoid-colors/emacs-humanoid-themes	75
73	donderom/jazz-theme	74
74	gchp/flatland-emacs	73
75	emacsfodder/emacs-soothe-theme	70
76	emacsfodder/emacs-theme-creamsody	69
77	john2x/flatui-theme.el	68
78	jimeh/twilight-bright-theme.el	64
79	cryon/subatomic-theme	63
80	ianyepan/jetbrains-darcula-emacs-theme	63
81	caffo/monotropic-theme	61
82	martenlienen/xresources-theme	61
83	valignatev/heaven-and-hell	59
84	bruce/emacs-spacegray-theme	58
85	belak/emacs-monokai-pro-theme	56
86	anandpiyer/seoul256-emacs	55
87	sashimacs/os1-theme	55
88	vbuzin/berrys-theme	54
89	WJCFerguson/emacs-faff-theme	53
90	MetroWind/lab-theme	50
91	pratul/almost-monokai	50
92	don9z/blackboard-theme	49