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What are the best Ubuntu themes?

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Arc
Mar 26, 2018
adapta-gtk-theme
Mar 26, 2018
Numix
Mar 26, 2018
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Arc

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Customizable to dark or light themes

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Has both GTK2 and GTK 3 support

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Users will be able to match their gtk2 and gtk3 themes easily due to Arc supporting both.
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Available firefox and chromium themes

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There are matching themes for Firefox and Chromium for those that want to have a fully matched looking environment.
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Really clean and nice-looking

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Supports gnome-shell

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Has some contrast issues

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The theme is a low contrast theme so it really depends on the screen brightness if you see borders or the text, some elements don't even have borders - this makes the theme barely usable for portable devices.
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Bleak font colors that cause eye strain

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The font color in Arc and Arc-Darker is not black, but lightgray after prolonged usage, it becomes apparent that this font color, combined with white backgrounds causes too much eye strain
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adapta-gtk-theme

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Ergonomic

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Not only looks good, but really accelerates work on desktop.
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Easy installation on Ubuntu

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tista/adapta sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install adapta-gtk-theme
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Most complete theme

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It styles every nook and cranny of the OS UI, even the ugly Java apps look beautiful using this theme.
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Real dark theme

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Follows the material design guidelines

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Numix

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Great for people who prefer dark themes

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Not free

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Official Numix Dark and its wallpapers are not free. The other one with the Xfce-look is free, though.

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