# CSS Theme Contest (with Prizes!)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [02.Август.2018 14:59:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770 "2018-08-02T14:59:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [02.Август.2018 14:59:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/1 "2018-08-02T14:59:35Z")
It is time for the logical sequel to our [color scheme contest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/color-scheme-contest-winners/91533) .. CSS Themes!
Discourse has a modest collection of CSS themes showcased in the #theme-full tag, but we’d like to have more! Here are two good reference examples:
### [Material](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-stock-theme/47142)
### [Classic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-classic-theme/72708)
## Challenge – Create a CSS-only Theme
Unlike our color schemes challenge, **custom CSS/SCSS is a requirement for this contest**. Though not mandatory, we would also prefer …
- [Accessible colors, fonts and font sizes](http://colorsafe.co/)
- Support for the Solved plugin
- Mobile-friendly view
It is allowed to load fonts and images in the assets folder but the theme must have a total size of max 500kb.
However, please do _not_ include …
- Themes with theme components bundled
- Themes with any settings
- Any HTML
- Any JavaScript
### How to participate
1. **Set up a new theme**
2. **Upload your theme to GitHub**
3. **Upload your theme**
4. **Share**
5. **Submit**
### Prizes
The Discourse team will select five theme submissions as winners:
| | |
| --- | --- |
| 🥇 | $1000 |
| 🥈 | $750 |
| 🥉 | $500 |
| 4th | $400 |
| 5th | $300 |
Please note that any of the winning themes may be bundled with Discourse core, at the Discourse team’s discretion. _Prize money is payable by PayPal or TransferWise. If neither of these payment options will work for you, please let us know in advance._
### Timeline
The contest will run for one month. Please submit your entries by September 1, 2018
### Ownership
You will own your theme. We only require that it is MIT licensed. We may however contact winning theme authors to request their theme be moved to the Discourse organisation if we decide to include it in core.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [02.Август.2018 15:40:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/2 "2018-08-02T15:40:52Z")
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### Author:  [@ZackFea](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ZackFea)
#### Post date: [06.Август.2018 07:06:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/3 "2018-08-06T07:06:54Z")
Is it pure CSS or is it allowed to use images and fonts?
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [06.Август.2018 13:49:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/4 "2018-08-06T13:49:52Z")
After consulting the team, I can confirm that you can add images/fonts as long as they are bundled with the theme in the assets folder and not linked externally (like Google fonts for example)
In addition, the theme should have a total size not exceeding 500kb. It should be more than enough to handle multiple fonts and images.
PS: OP updated
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [30.Август.2018 09:19:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/6 "2018-08-30T09:19:22Z")
~~Tomorrow~~ September 3rd is the deadline for this contest 📅
Are you making the latest changes before sending us your themes?
We are so curious to see all your themes!! 🤩
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [30.Август.2018 09:24:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/7 "2018-08-30T09:24:26Z")
We should probably end the contest end of day Monday September 3rd so people have time to get everything in. 😉
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [03.Сентябрь.2018 16:24:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/9 "2018-09-03T16:24:04Z")
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### Author:  [@bholst](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bholst)
#### Post date: [06.Сентябрь.2018 16:48:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/10 "2018-09-06T16:48:38Z")
No chance of see the entries?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [06.Сентябрь.2018 17:07:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/11 "2018-09-06T17:07:32Z")
Yes, the entries will be made public. We just need to review and discuss internally first (also anyone who entered is free to share their work here if they’d like).
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### Author:  [@Ovro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ovro)
#### Post date: [16.Сентябрь.2018 19:43:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/12 "2018-09-16T19:43:56Z")
Any ETA? 🙂
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [17.Сентябрь.2018 13:29:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/13 "2018-09-17T13:29:10Z")
Apologies for the delay, I ruminated on how to wrap this up for quite some time. Will have the announcement up within day(s).
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### Author:  [@molszew](https://meta.discourse.org/u/molszew)
#### Post date: [19.Сентябрь.2018 07:46:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/14 "2018-09-19T07:46:16Z")
To make the topic a little bit less stale, I’d like to share my contest entry:
> **['Fresh Theme' by @molszew](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/molszew/fresh)**
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> A customization for Discourse shared on Discourse Theme Creator
I hope you like it 🙂
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### Author:  [@TheBestPessimist](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TheBestPessimist)
#### Post date: [19.Сентябрь.2018 08:32:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/15 "2018-09-19T08:32:56Z")
Good looking theme! 👍
My only problem is that i can’t click here to open the post (that’s the first thing i did!)
I have to move my mouse in line with the title for that to work, which is not necessarily intuitive.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [21.Сентябрь.2018 09:48:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/16 "2018-09-21T09:48:21Z")
Apologies for the holdup. 'tis done:
> [@CSS Theme Contest: Winners!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-winners/97748):
>
> 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 @danPreview: [https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/udan11/greek](https://theme-creator.discourse.org/theme/udan11/greek) Code: [https://github.com/udan11/dis…](https://github.com/udan11/discourse-greek)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [21.Сентябрь.2018 09:48:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-theme-contest-with-prizes/93770/17 "2018-09-21T09:48:23Z")