Popular Emacs Themes

Lists generated on: September 20, 2026

Local

The most popular Emacs themes in this directory.

Most popular Emacs themes in ranking order
Rank	Theme Name	Source
1	Zenburn
2	Molokai Theme
3	Monokai Theme
4	Cyberpunk Theme
5	Gruber Darker Theme
6	Gruvbox Theme
7	Mindre Theme
8	Moe Theme
9	Doom One Theme
10	Tao Theme
11	Material Theme
12	Hopscotch Theme
13	Darcula Theme
14	Lambda Light Theme
15	Spacemacs Dark
16	Anti Zenburn Theme
17	Lambda Dark Theme
18	Doom 1337 Theme
19	Adwaita Dark Theme
20	Doom Acario Dark Theme

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
1	doom themes	849,322
2	zenburn theme	755,587
3	solarized theme	583,231
4	color theme sanityinc tomorrow	483,342
5	modus themes	463,235
6	spacemacs theme	359,969
7	monokai theme	352,426
8	color theme sanityinc solarized	318,589
9	leuven theme	311,557
10	gruvbox theme	297,486
11	dracula theme	283,164
12	material theme	253,882
13	moe theme	230,537
14	cyberpunk theme	203,747
15	kaolin themes	188,635
16	ample theme	186,980
17	apropospriate theme	184,891
18	tao theme	182,071
19	gruber darker theme	180,122
20	alect themes	177,951
21	darktooth theme	175,668
22	sublime themes	173,284
23	anti zenburn theme	172,347
24	inkpot theme	169,967
25	organic green theme	166,929
26	gotham theme	166,777
27	afternoon theme	158,376
28	molokai theme	156,668
29	tangotango theme	154,712
30	ujelly theme	152,155
31	tango plus theme	150,776
32	subatomic theme	149,699
33	hc zenburn theme	147,879
34	noctilux theme	147,708
35	grandshell theme	147,378
36	ample zen theme	147,293
37	flatland theme	146,995
38	soothe theme	146,847
39	flatui theme	146,435
40	jazz theme	146,300
41	spacegray theme	143,567
42	clues theme	143,199
43	naquadah theme	142,496
44	minimal theme	142,253
45	espresso theme	140,564
46	badwolf theme	140,489
47	planet theme	140,267
48	twilight theme	140,169
49	seti theme	139,765
50	cherry blossom theme	139,394
51	tango 2 theme	139,243
52	bubbleberry theme	139,106
53	darkmine theme	139,025
54	lush theme	138,420
55	phoenix dark pink theme	138,348
56	twilight bright theme	137,661
57	dakrone theme	137,430
58	heroku theme	137,260
59	twilight anti bright theme	137,246
60	birds of paradise plus theme	136,811
61	ir black theme	136,464
62	soft morning theme	136,109
63	underwater theme	135,874
64	busybee theme	135,761
65	hemisu theme	135,548
66	monochrome theme	135,341
67	gandalf theme	135,325
68	smyx theme	135,282
69	zen and art theme	134,557
70	toxi theme	134,288
71	subatomic256 theme	134,141
72	professional theme	134,046
73	django theme	133,948
74	soft charcoal theme	133,765
75	obsidian theme	133,674
76	oldlace theme	133,502
77	soft stone theme	133,389
78	purple haze theme	133,289
79	mustang theme	132,912
80	reverse theme	132,617
81	light soap theme	132,193
82	sunny day theme	132,078
83	occidental theme	132,006
84	phoenix dark mono theme	131,924
85	jbeans theme	130,608
86	darkokai theme	126,092
87	darkburn theme	119,917
88	railscasts theme	119,205
89	omtose phellack theme	116,268
90	base16 theme	113,261
91	exotica theme	104,943
92	rebecca theme	104,645
93	majapahit theme	104,181
94	white sand theme	104,179
95	farmhouse theme	103,264
96	madhat2r theme	102,524
97	color theme solarized	70,250
98	chocolate theme	62,392
99	eziam theme	59,359
100	atom one dark theme	58,892

GitHub

Public Emacs Lisp theme repositories ranked by star count.

GitHub theme repositories ranked by star count
Rank	Repository Name	Stars
1	doomemacs/themes	2,421
2	sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized	1,162
3	bbatsov/zenburn-emacs	1,082
4	protesilaos/modus-themes	905
5	bbatsov/solarized-emacs	856
6	ogdenwebb/emacs-kaolin-themes	817
7	kuanyui/moe-theme.el	773
8	fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme	768
9	greduan/emacs-theme-gruvbox	687
10	nashamri/spacemacs-theme	620
11	protesilaos/ef-themes	583
12	nordtheme/emacs	550
13	kunalb/poet	537
14	owainlewis/emacs-color-themes	513
15	oneKelvinSmith/monokai-emacs	502
16	rexim/gruber-darker-theme	487
17	catppuccin/emacs	467
18	purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow	465
19	11111000000/tao-theme-emacs	456
20	rougier/nano-theme	447
21	cpaulik/emacs-material-theme	434
22	tinted-theming/base16-emacs	419
23	dracula/emacs	348
24	waymondo/apropospriate-theme	323
25	emacsfodder/emacs-theme-darktooth	319
26	jordonbiondo/ample-theme	299
27	n3mo/cyberpunk-theme.el	279
28	NicolasPetton/zerodark-theme	278
29	jonathanchu/atom-one-dark-theme	260
30	ianyepan/tron-legacy-emacs-theme	246
31	mclear-tools/bespoke-themes	218
32	Lambda-Emacs/lambda-themes	206
33	ianyepan/vscode-dark-plus-emacs-theme	188
34	motform/stimmung-themes	152
35	juba/color-theme-tangotango	148
36	challenger-deep-theme/emacs	147
37	cstby/solo-jazz-emacs-theme	145
38	srcery-colors/srcery-emacs	143
39	wasamasa/gotham-theme	136
40	mrcnski/nimbus-theme	134
41	vic/rebecca-theme	129
42	nickav/naysayer-theme.el	127
43	hbin/molokai-theme	123
44	idleberg/Hopscotch	121
45	MetroWind/flucui-theme	120
46	sjrmanning/darkokai	120
47	cryon/almost-mono-themes	119
48	protesilaos/doric-themes	116
49	erikbackman/mindre-theme	112
50	alezost/alect-themes	110
51	ozanvos/emacs-afternoon-theme	107
52	ronisbr/doom-nano-themes	106
53	tek256/simple-dark	101
54	ianyepan/acme-emacs-theme	100
55	john2x/plan9-theme.el	100
56	maio/eink-emacs	100
57	SavchenkoValeriy/emacs-chocolate-theme	99
58	axgfn/parchment	95
59	marktran/color-theme-ujelly	94
60	crafterm/twilight-emacs	92
61	ianyepan/wilmersdorf-emacs-theme	88
62	purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized	87
63	thblt/eziam-theme-emacs	87
64	alloy-d/color-theme-molokai	85
65	vic/color-theme-buffer-local	81
66	jonnay/org-beautify-theme	78
67	zaiste/zaiste-emacs-theme	78
68	the-frey/cyberpunk-2019	77
69	humanoid-colors/emacs-humanoid-themes	76
70	donderom/jazz-theme	74
71	gchp/flatland-emacs	73
72	emacsfodder/emacs-soothe-theme	69
73	emacsfodder/emacs-theme-creamsody	69
74	john2x/flatui-theme.el	68
75	jimeh/twilight-bright-theme.el	64
76	cryon/subatomic-theme	63
77	ianyepan/jetbrains-darcula-emacs-theme	63
78	caffo/monotropic-theme	61
79	martenlienen/xresources-theme	61
80	bruce/emacs-spacegray-theme	59
81	valignatev/heaven-and-hell	59
82	belak/emacs-monokai-pro-theme	56
83	anandpiyer/seoul256-emacs	55
84	sashimacs/os1-theme	55
85	vbuzin/berrys-theme	54
86	WJCFerguson/emacs-faff-theme	53
87	LionyxML/kusanagi-theme	51
88	MetroWind/lab-theme	50