How Many Are Using Custom Themes?

Okay...so we have a theme editor, and several members of the community have posted custom themes (which is quite cool). But I'm curious whether people are actually using custom themes, or sticking with Tungsten/Mercury.
 
I (mostly) use the stock themes for screen shots and such, but for my own projects, I'm definitely into using my own theme and just wondered how many SONARians are doing likewise. Or if you're using someone else's theme, that counts too as a custom theme.
 
The main reason I use my own theme isn't so much the looks, but because it highlights the elements that are most important to me in the various projects I do.

Sorry guys.  The themes are very cool but not for me.  I use the standards.  I don't want to spend the time tinkering with it.  With SONAR the value for me is what I can produce sonically and honestly I don't care much about the screen colors.  Never have.  I try to spend as much time as I can making the music and I guess I'm too stingy with my time to worry about all the pretty themes.  Again,  I have admired many of the beautiful themes that have been posted (and even have many of them saved) but I just don't mess with them.  Great question Craig!  I'll also be curious to hear the broader response from the forum.  Cheers to all!  Dave

I use it and I like it a lot, but I made only a few minor yet very practical changes e.g. colours of those buttons that always give trouble when engaged by mistake or forgotten to disengage at the end of the previous session, which would be punch-in, offset mode, etc.
 
And I added the official studio logo as a Sonar background, which looks nice :-)
 
So overall, it took me about 15 minutes to make these changes and apply to main and mobile DAW.
 
BTW, my changes are based on the Tungsten theme, which is my favourite since the day one it was released. Yet I would appreciate somewhat bigger colour indications for the channels (which was THE MAJOR request ever since Tungsten came out)

lawajava
I don't have the patience to poke around and adjust theme ideas. I want to spend my creative time creating music with Sonar.

So, I'm not a theme maker.

But I really liked Tungsten. Then someone (I'll edit this post later and give the name) posted a really nice theme and I switched to that. It's nice to have folks post their ideas and looks. The one I added is great!

Yes, that's why I put in the beginning that using someone else's theme counted to me as using a custom theme. I think it's great that people are willing to share their work. 
 
What I've found in creating my theme is yes it takes patience, and quite a bit of effort to do a complete theme. But I don't really have to do a complete theme anyway, I work on it a little here, a little there. Slowly but surely it's getting nailed down.
 
Interestingly I don't think it necessarily looks better than the stock themes, because it's designed to provide stark contrasts among the screen elements rather than give them an artistic mien. For me, though, that's useful.

Anderton
 
Interestingly I don't think it necessarily looks better than the stock themes, because it's designed to provide stark contrasts among the screen elements rather than give them an artistic mien. For me, though, that's useful.

well, stock themes are done by professionals, including graphic designers i suppose

RSMCGUITAR
I like Tungsten and pretty much stick to it. There are a few things I would probably change but can't wade through the Theme Editor. I really liked some of the examples people posted. I feel like you kinda need a pro to design it for it to be really good.

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My thoughts exactly Scott, on all points

I was excited when i first found out about the theme editor as i have some eyesight problems that i assumed the editor would help me with. I was really annoyed when something essential for people with vision problems was just for the platinum users, i can only afford the artist version.
 
So i've gone back to Reaper where themes are available to anyone not just the rich.

I mostly use customized Tungsten. Tho theme capability was one of the reasons I finally upgraded to splat, I was making and using "themes" since X1, even before Duckbar. Splat disabled Duckbar so I was surprised to see the theme editor arise.
 
It would be nice to see monthly updates to Theme Editor adding new elements to the list of changeable colors. It has a long way to go to catch up to Duckbar.

Yes I use the Green Glow slightly modified and Dark Aqua again slightly modified as I was having trouble reading the timeline ruler in both. 

I wish we could include some of the themes from others in the distribution. I have been too lazy to download any. Shame on me. I'm sure they are great.

I think there are a lot of cool, custom themes.  I ended up going back/forth between the blue meter theme and the glow green for a while, but ended up back on Mercury.  Turns out that as far as eye strain goes, Mercury is a pretty darn good theme.  Add the strip colors and I'm back to it.
 
 

Count me in,
I´m using -mercsten,blue meters - in the studio box and -dark aqua- on my laptop.
I like both themes a lot.

Default Mercury here.  FULL Channel colors is VERY important to me...
 

Standard Tungsten works well for me, and use it exclusively and just assigning track/bus colors as before, got so much else to learn and experiment with in the audio production I don't seem to have time to for it. Perhaps if there were some more listed in preferences menu I would try them out. 
 
Cheers