Sphinx themes¶
These are Sphinx themes that the Write the Docs community recommends. The Sphinx ecosystem includes many themes - this list highlights popular, well-maintained options. If there are others you like, feel free to open a pull request to add them.
Requirements to be included on this list:
Mobile Ready
Nice fonts and typography
Installable as a Python module
Maintained and documented
Read the Docs theme¶
The official theme for Read the Docs. It features beautiful typography and a nice blue color scheme. It looks great on mobile, and provides a menu of all the pages on the left-hand side.
Alabaster¶
Based off the original Flask and KR themes, this is a more extensible version of the prior. It is what this site uses, and provides very minimal markup. It’s great for text content where you just want to make the words front and center.
Sphinx Bootstrap theme¶
A basic Sphinx theme that uses Bootstrap for nice styling. It is a great start for any site that uses Bootstrap, or just wants a simple good looking theme.
Guzzle theme¶
Originally built for Guzzle (PHP HTTP client), this theme is another mobile friendly alternative with nice colors.
Documatt theme¶
Mobile friendly Sphinx theme designed to provide great documentation reading experience with beautiful typography.
This theme is default theme of Documatt Techwriter at work blog but you are welcome to use it with any Sphinx project.
Furo theme¶
Originally built for the pip documentation, this mobile friendly theme is minimal but customizable and has carefully designed navigation features (sidebar, inter-page links).
PyData Sphinx theme¶
A clean, three-column, Bootstrap-based theme widely adopted by scientific and data science projects. Features responsive design and excellent navigation for complex documentation.
Shibuya¶
A modern, responsive theme with excellent light/dark mode support and great integration with Jupyter extensions. Features Radix color system and flexible layouts.
