# CSS Theme Contest: Winners! **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748 **Category:** Site feedback **Created:** [September 21, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748 "2018-09-21T09:46:59Z") **Posts on this page:** 4 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh) #### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748/1 "2018-09-21T09:46:59Z")
At long last, it’s time to announce the winners of our [CSS Theme Contest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770)! With full themes the bar is set much higher and we also allowed just a single submission per user. As a result we ended up with fewer submissions, which led to a last-minute decision to rebalance the prize pool across 4 prizes as opposed to the announced 5. _The winners are as follows:_ ### 4th place: “Discourse Greek” by @dan Preview: [https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/udan11/greek](https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/udan11/greek) Code: [https://github.com/udan11/discourse-greek](https://github.com/udan11/discourse-greek) 💲 500 USD ![13](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/6/364a185d7914c794f7451a6ee5f6717b1c00fae8.jpeg) ![21](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/7/c7ea3c4ef4598f55962241dca1d66f915e1feffd.jpeg) ### 3rd place: “Well-Rounded” by @tshenry Preview: [https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/tshenry/well-rounded](https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/tshenry/well-rounded) Code: [https://github.com/tshenry/discourse-well-rounded-theme](https://github.com/tshenry/discourse-well-rounded-theme) 💲 600 ![59](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/f/4f4e0ea7d87104806c98d3f4680aa8170c50ecc8.png) ![37](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/9/6959af4f50b4de4955a1e3a191390b8e626c5b36.png) ### 2nd place: “Fresh Theme” by @molszew Preview: [https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/molszew/fresh](https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/molszew/fresh) Code: [https://github.com/Molszew/discourse\_fresh\_theme](https://github.com/Molszew/discourse_fresh_theme) 💲 850 ![30](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/5/253b06ab577995c42a0d6af24a026d11fd38a1bf.png) ![05](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/0/30f02cffe2fc64f5de74a971e397bafd6460072a.png) ### 1st place: “Lightbox” by @PullJosh Preview: [https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/PullJosh/lightbox2](https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/PullJosh/lightbox2) Code: [https://github.com/PullJosh/lightbox](https://github.com/PullJosh/lightbox) 💲 1000 ![07](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/0/70132439d1395453a9d0df041cfc0b3c36522297.png) ![41](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/a/fae017d1ebd3f1c4b90d9278e3ad584517d38f5d.png) ### Congrats! 🎉 Thanks a bunch for participating 💗 This will be the last contest we do for the foreseeable future. Going forward we will put the contest format on hold in favor of nurturing our themes ecosystem with the [Encouragement Fund](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/02/the-discourse-encouragement-fund/) approach. While contests are good for building buzz and excitement they don’t incentivise iterative and transparent development mentored by _the crowd_, which is our 🍞 and 🥞 (there’s some butter on top there). **To the designers:** Please tell us all about your impression of Discourse themes thus far, and where you’d like them to go from here. ---
### Author: ![PullJosh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pulljosh/32/105995_2.png) [@PullJosh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PullJosh) #### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748/2 "2018-09-21T12:55:04Z")
Huge thanks to the entire team for putting on the contest. 🙂 I had tons of fun, and can’t wait to see the themes in use. Also: Congrats to all who submitted a theme! It will be fun to see a wider variety of discourse sites out in the wild. ---
### Author: ![meetdilip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@meetdilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meetdilip) #### Post date: [September 22, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748/3 "2018-09-22T03:02:53Z")
Nice work guys 👌 ---
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748/4 "2019-02-13T11:36:58Z")