# CSS Theme Contest: Winners!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Created:** [9월 21, 2018, 9:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748 "2018-09-21T09:46:59Z")\
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**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:** [9월 21, 2018, 9:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748/1 "2018-09-21T09:46:59Z")

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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.

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