April 10, 2012 
[Update: Time to go let us know which of these 56 themes you'd love to see included in Alfred v1.2. Pop over to the Facebook album and dish out the thumbs up.]
Since we launched Alfred two years ago, users of the free version have been able to choose between a light and dark colour theme. When Lion was released, we added a matching theme to celebrate its arrival. Today, we are looking for new and exciting custom themes for Alfred and are turning to you!
If we choose your theme to add to the Alfred core, you’ll get recognition in front of a million users as well as some unique Alfred goodies. Read on to find out how to participate or vote.
Contributing your own theme
To participate, create the most gorgeous custom colour theme for Alfred and post a link to the screenshot and theme file in the comments below. You have until Thursday 12th April to submit your theme.
In your comment on this blog post, include:
- A link to a screenshot of your theme
- A link to the theme file
- A valid email address (in the address field) so that we can contact you
To participate, you need to have your own Powerpack license and the theme needs to work well for common uses (e.g. over other windows).
Don’t know how to export your theme? Have a look at this knowledge base item.
If your theme has a fun name or a story, we’d love to hear it 
Voting for your favourite theme
By Friday 13th April, we’ll put all of the themes on our Facebook page where you can look through the album we’ve created to vote for your favourites. We’ll post a link to the album here on Friday but you can join us on Facebook now to get a headstart!
Pop by our Facebook photo album to like your favourite themes so that they’re in with a chance to be included in version 1.2!
To vote, click the Like button on Facebook for the themes you love the most. At the end of the week, we’ll pick 2 of the 5 themes you’ve liked the most to include in Alfred’s core set of themes.
This means that if your custom theme wins, over a million Alfred users will be able to pick it as their everyday theme. Instant celebrity status! 
The two winners will get the following:
- An upgrade from single user license to mega supporter (for a lifetime of Alfred updates) or a single license for a friend
- Their theme and name published as part of Alfred’s core themes for all users to see
- Some Alfred goodies (stickers and keyboard brushes) in the mail
What are you waiting for? Set your inner artist free and create a beautiful Alfred custom theme and submit it before Thursday for your chance at these prizes.
Theme I’ve been using since themes came out. Hope you like it. Inspired by “Solarized” theme.
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/3B1U0p333b1q3i3P302N
Theme: http://cl.ly/0C0q0q3S3v0R2T452O3g
Cheers.
My favorite theme(s) I have made were definitely the Twitterrific inspired themes!
Link to screenshots: http://www.dirtdon.com/?p=1110
Link to download: http://cl.ly/8xYb
XOXOXO,
Don.
@binaryghost
Light, pure, powerful: White Lightning.
http://cameronspear.com/white-lightning.png
http://cameronspear.com/white-lightning.alfredtheme
This is the theme I’m currently using. It’s simply an improved version of the standard Lion theme, but I think it’s much more comfortable
I therefore call it Lion 2.0
Screenshot:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27154460/Lion%202.0.png
Theme file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27154460/Lion%202.0.alfredtheme
-Johannes T. Røsvik
I created a vairation of the default Lion Theme trying to match as best I could the colors used in the System itself.
Here’s a capture:
http://www.cortig.net/temp/Roarw.png
and a ling to the theme itself:
http://www.cortig.net/temp/Roarw.alfredtheme
My theme is meant to be pure white and fit well into osx lions design.
one should probably disable the alfred hat and the prefs cog to get a good effect ;-p.
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/0d101a3c0q1t0f2Z093u
Theme: http://cl.ly/1P3u150r0M1o0L290c2w
Have fun^^
A Minimal Alfred Theme:
http://cl.ly/1p1K1R2i1T163f0i1935
http://cl.ly/3o2C1l0B2v3A2a103r0Q
Here is my attempts, just for fun. http://alfredtips.com/t/574/ (both preview and file theme)
It’s a dedication to a friend who finds Mac OS X interface too gray and asked me someday whether it’s possible to set it pink (because she likes pink).
My theme with blends with Lion. I made this back when themes was made available.
Screenshot: http://d.pr/tHmq
Theme: http://d.pr/Ktu3
I hope to hear from you soon
I present “Survey My Monkey”:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christophergeorge/6918783944/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christophergeorge/7064862127/
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29068184/Survey%20My%20Monkey.alfredtheme
Enjoy
I felt there needed to be more Alfred violet in the popup, so I use this variation on the Light theme for myself:
Screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7091536/theme_screenshot.png
Theme: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7091536/Alfred.alfredtheme
I like the results to be clean. Never actually themed alfred before, but well – why not. 3 Results of basically the same theme, but they each have they feel after all.
Clean and Clear:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12259556/Clean%20and%20Clear.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12259556/Clean%20and%20Clear.alfredtheme
Clean and Modest:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12259556/Clean%20and%20Modest.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12259556/Clean%20and%20Modest.alfredtheme
Clean and Distinct:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12259556/Clean%20and%20Distinct.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12259556/Clean%20and%20Distinct.alfredtheme
Screen: http://cl.ly/Firv
Theme: http://cl.ly/FjAE
mmminimal
Because I couldn’t care less for all these numbers and clutter.
I usually fail at themeing, but I actually kind of like this one
Screenshot: http://trepmal.com/files/2012/04/alfred-theme-lara.png
Download: http://trepmal.com/files/2012/04/Lara.alfredtheme
Theme page: http://trepmal.com/alfredapp/themes/lara/
Nice, I like this.
Hold off til Friday then you can go give it thumbs up to help trepmal win the competition
I will certainly give it my vote but I entered myself!!!
That’s to say, I entered my own theme into the comp!!
Here is my Alfred Theme!
Elegant
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/FjCr
Theme: http://cl.ly/FiAZ
Theme to match Terminal.app’s Novel Theme.
Screenshot File:
http://cl.ly/3s1E0z083c103P2H3E2c
Theme File:
http://cl.ly/05021n040B2m3P3N3122
Here is my attempt,
Purple and high contrast
Screenshot: http://d.pr/pexe
Theme File: http://d.pr/yM4f
Here is my contribution
ThoughtfulDesign
Screen Shot:http://bit.ly/HyXVRW
Theme File: http://bit.ly/Hzt4Eo
This is my attempt at a theme, called quickPurple
Screenshot: http://d.pr/zZs1
Theme File: http://d.pr/e3B
Smooth Grey
Screenshot: http://d.pr/MxLW
Theme File: http://d.pr/N0h8
Presenting the FlynnOS Alfred Theme!
Somewhat surprisingly, this attempt to theme Alfred after Disney’s Tron: Legacy turned out pretty well. No hats were derezzed in the making of this Alfred theme, so enjoy!
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/3J0e213V0W0x1h113P3c
Theme File: http://cl.ly/3b3x2r173K2w2z1u2x13
Alternatively, you can use this link: http://alfredtips.com/t/575/
I thought the natural color elements are easy to identify.
Name: Basic Natural
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/FjuH
Theme: http://cl.ly/Fjtc
Here’s three I came up with it
Too bad we can’t change the font
Tron Green
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/594498/alfred/tron-green.png (screenshot)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/594498/alfred/Tron%20Green.alfredtheme (theme)
Tron Blue
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/594498/alfred/tron-blue.png (screenshot)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/594498/alfred/Tron%20Blue.alfredtheme (theme)
Nirusu – after my site theme / business-card
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/594498/alfred/nirusu.png (screenshot)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/594498/alfred/Nirusu.alfredtheme (theme)
My theme. Been using it for a while.
Picture and download at http://arvenubdal.com/lab/
Just the screenshot at: http://arvenubdal.com/lab/bilder/alfred.png
Linlin
Screentshot: http://cloud.danzwl.info/FjZo
http://cloud.danzwl.info/FjRK
http://cloud.danzwl.info/FjLu
Theme Link: http://cloud.danzwl.info/FjQv
Aww I want an Alfred sticker!!!
http://myshopify.co.uk/alfred-competition/Pink-Purple-Theme.png
http://myshopify.co.uk/alfred-competition/Pink-Purple.alfredtheme
I find most of the themes for Alfred to be too distracting, Alfred is about accessing things on your computer as easily as possible and the theme should not get in the way of that.
I have created this theme to be clean and very usable, while still looking nice! Hope it’s useful!
http://jameswyse.net/misc/alfred-theme-clean-blue/
Cheers and thanks again for an awesome app!
James Wyse
Here’s another based on “Solarized” by Ethan Schoonover.
Screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1513463/Alfred%20Themes/SolarizedAlfred.png
Theme File: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1513463/Alfred%20Themes/SolarizedAlfred
It’s a bit naff you have to already own the Powerpack to be eligible for the competition; I was hoping I could enter to win it in the first place. For what it’s worth, I designed a couple of themes in Photoshop – since I can’t share them directly I’d be happy to give the photoshop swatches to anyone who is interested.
Lions: http://cl.ly/2m041M220T210L090Y35
and
Tigers: http://cl.ly/2r0O1G1t2p1g2s2s282W
oh my!
Plastic Wrap (based on my Plastic Code Wrap theme for TextMate).
Screenshot: http://plasticstare.com/plasticware/alfred/plasticwraptheme/plasticwrap_alfredtheme.png
Theme: http://plasticstare.com/plasticware/alfred/plasticwraptheme/plasticwrap_alfredtheme.alfredtheme
This is my first attempt, Litchen based on “Funky Green”.
Screenshot:
http://cl.ly/Fkby
Theme File:
http://cl.ly/FkSQ
Cheers all and thanks for Alfred, don’t know what I ever did without it!
Here’s my theme — Horizon. Horizon looks particularly attractive on darker wallpapers. Slight transparency with concise colours make Horizon an adaptable, yet attractive theme for Alfred.
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/0Q0s0B0h2M403o0f0B1a
Download Link: http://cl.ly/1k2t3Y192o3S041H1q1b
Fire and Ice. Minimalistic theme (just the way Steve Jobs would like it). Hope you do too!
Screen: http://cl.ly/3p2e1J0b0R1g2M2U0L1y
Theme: http://cl.ly/31360j2n46291M3r1e0y
Here’s a couple I created a while back
Transparent Theme
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uw1fwq9wlpqrr21/A3jTen3M9T/Transparent.alfredtheme
Transparent Screenshot
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9uudey3odldzd4s/CfpPbnVS_g/Alfred%20-%20Transparent.jpg
Burgundy Theme
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iw5ahap0rwe2zqd/1cNbaRwPEC/Burgundy.alfredtheme
Burgundy Screenshot
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/emps8wq5rh5lfj7/vxi7T6xqVX/Alfred%20-%20Burgundy.jpg
My theme – Phoenix. If you like dark and orange.
screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24907/alfred.png
download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24907/Phoenix.alfredtheme
A dark, minimal theme designed to be easy on your eyes when you’re up late developing. It’s called Noct.
Screenshot: http://nicolasartman.com/alfred/theme_contest.png
Download: http://nicolasartman.com/alfred/Noct.alfredtheme
My every day theme, ‘A Little Punk’.
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/0O3M1D3x01411X0w2X0V
Theme: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45930/Alfred%20Themes/A%20Little%20Punk.alfredtheme
One more called “80′s Trannie”
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/3U1O030S0e392g3Q0S35
Theme: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45930/Alfred%20Themes/80's%20Trannie.alfredtheme
So here’s my attempt at a theme. So I’ve been on a Doctor Who kick here lately so when creating a theme it turned out slightly resembling the Tardis (“It’s bigger on the inside.”). Hope you enjoy.
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/FmGw
Download Link: http://cl.ly/FmLg
This is my theme, inspired by Things from Cultured Code.
Screenshot: http://d.pr/dXR8
Theme File: http://d.pr/qTUC
Here’s my theme. It’s called “LEGO” (or “Bricks”, if it may not be named “LEGO”)
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/2D2u1P1E3u3L3R0V3n1o
Download: http://cl.ly/0d2k0E330q283i0m0V0z
I tried extract the color of “The Waves off the Coast of Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai painting. http://cl.ly/FmOw
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/Fm7U
Theme File: http://cl.ly/FlsE
Hi here is my version of a an iA Writer theme:
Grab: http://cl.ly/2g2a120i2Q420I2P0O12
Theme: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/187854/iAWriter.alfredtheme
Here’s My Theme I Named It Sleek Professional Cause I Think it Can Go Good With Any Wallpaper or Theme You May Have On Your Mac..
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/FmbO
Download: http://cl.ly/FmqT
My theme is an HatTheme
Screenshot : https://skitch.com/e-franciturci/81tfc/alfred-preferences
Download : http://cl.ly/2q2H042I2w2v2p1y0U2q
I wanted something simple and unobtrusive, so I could still see what I was working on.
Frosted Glass screenshot: http://cl.ly/FmaJ
Frosted Glass theme: http://cl.ly/FlwR
I want to use a semi-transparent theme, so I can see the the front app and alfred at the same time.
purple and blue always match!!
Pure Purple screenshot https://skitch.com/e-alecio/81w9s/pure-purple
Pure Purple theme https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D066048_6275782_6545515
The Theme I’ve been using since it is possible to create them. It is Inspired by Modos Interface Colors. Dark and Clean, I hope you like it.
Screenshot: http://sht.tl/kx7qU
Download: http://sht.tl/SHCi
Anything I can do to support the AlfredApp!
Links to screenshots: http://approductive.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/alfred-theme-dark-smooth/
Link to theme: http://cl.ly/3c1F1P0S1b2g0y0w403q
Seriously looked at my theme and realized it needed a tweak. Here’d version 2.
Screen: http://cl.ly/3d3n2Y393j2e1p1U110Q
Theme: http://cl.ly/36212I2n082N1I3L2x0J
Time to let us know which of these themes are your favourites by liking them in this Facebook album:
http://goo.gl/Gm0iE
We’d love to hear which ones you’d like to see in Alfred v1.2
- Vero