Shadcn UI Theme Explorer

Last updated October 8, 2025

About This Template

Shadcn UI Theme Explorer is a community-driven platform built with Next.js 13, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React, designed to help developers explore, preview, customize, and share beautifully designed themes for shadcn/ui components with light and dark mode variations. Inspired by the Raycast Theme Explorer, this collaborative tool enables users to upload and contribute new themes through a simple process of adding theme information to an index, creating CSS files with color definitions, and importing themes into global stylesheets, effectively coloring the web with community-created designs. The platform provides a centralized repository where designers and developers can discover diverse color schemes, test themes with live component previews, understand how themes affect different UI elements, and contribute their own creations to benefit the broader shadcn/ui community. Perfect for design teams exploring brand color applications, developers seeking theme inspiration, open-source contributors sharing design work, or any project where theme experimentation and discovery accelerate design decisions and ensure cohesive visual systems. By emphasizing community involvement with a clear code of conduct and inclusive approach, the Theme Explorer demonstrates how collaborative design tools can expand the creative possibilities of component libraries, enabling the shadcn/ui ecosystem to support diverse aesthetic preferences while maintaining the underlying component architecture and accessibility standards that make the library valuable across varied applications and industries.

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