📱 Android Themes

🖼 Screenshots

Android 3.1	Android 95/NT 4.0	Android 98
Android ME Professional (2000/ME)	Android XP	Android 7
brewing	soon	maybe

ℹ️ Intro

• Lawnchair Legacy 2.0-2589 is the least worst launcher recommended. Newer versions lack support for changing icons using images. Also, other launchers have ads or are painful to customise/use. It also supports custom fonts!
• Backup/Restore - Lawnchair backups store the icons, layout and wallpapers ✅
• Lawnchair backups do NOT contain custom fonts. You'll need both the .shed file and .ttf files to the device

Tips

• Lawnchair supports .gif files as wallpaper (non-animated), which is ideal for stock Windows backgrounds which use GIF colours
• Icons can be sourced from Windows files using wrestool, which supports all Windows DLLs, EXEs etc since Windows 3.0!
• VirtualBox .vdi files can be opened/extracted with 7Zip
• .ICO files can be converted to .PNG (with transparency!) using imagemagick
• Note: set the icons in the app drawer first - the change will flow down to the home screen icons
• Futo keyboard v0.1.27 now supports themes (eg background image) https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/releases/tag/0.1.27
• Notification Shortcuts app also supports custom (.png) icons!
• Fun icons can be found in MORICONS.DLL and PIFMGR.DLL
• Win95/NT 4.0 have the same vibe, likewise with Win2k/ME. Icons/wallpaper colour is the same
• Nova launcher works, but it has its bugs. Wallpaper placement can be hard to get right. It has ads. It's also not fun to pick custom icons, although others I've tried are worse. It also doesn't support custom fonts

🖌️ Themes!

Windows 3.1 Theme

• Font: MS Sans Serif 8pt.ttf
• Icons
• Text colour: Black
• Original Win31 wallpapers: https://archive.org/details/winlogo_202511/
• Issues: Wallpaper is dark (should be pure white, but Lawnchair has made it grey-ish)

Windows 95 Theme

• Sample Lawnchair .shed
• Font: MS Sans Serif 8pt.ttf or https://www.dafont.com/w95fa.font
• Font colour: White
• Wallpaper colour: 008484
• Win95 grey: C6C6C6
• Original Win95 icons: https://archive.org/details/windows-95-c-icons
• Original Win95 wallpapers: https://archive.org/details/sc-wall
• I couldn't find any Win95-type icons for Camera so I had to use the older style one from PROGMAN.EXE 🙁

Windows 98 Theme

• Font: MS Sans Serif (Western), size 8. SSERIFE.FON
• Wallpaper colour: 000080
• Wallpaper with Windows 98 logo: the logo is a .gif stored in MEMBG.DLL (extracted with Resource Hacker)
• Original Win98 wallpapers: https://archive.org/details/underw1
• Windows 98 SE VDI: https://archive.org/details/windows-98-32-bit
• Issues: Font doesn't look right.

Windows 2000/Me Theme

• Reference pic: https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/final-3e8aaaa2b1c65587e5249551445642da-w2kfilebrowser.png
• Font: TAHOMA.TTF, size 8. Some parts like titlebars are bold https://github.com/SpitFire-666/AndroidThemes/blob/main/Tahoma-Win2k.ttf
• Original Win2k Wallpapers: https://archive.org/details/windows-2000_202502/
• Windows Me VDI: https://archive.org/details/win_me_archive_vdi/
• Wallpaper (Win2k Blue) colour: 3B6EA5
• Windows 2000 grey: D4D0C8

Windows XP Theme

• Font:
• Wallpaper:
• WinXP "Grey": FBFBFC
• WinXP Grey (classic theme):

Windows 7 Theme

Windows 8 Theme

• We don't talk about Windows 8 here!

Windows 10/11 Theme

OS/2 Warp Theme

• Icons: warpicon***

Mac OS 9

• Icons: https://github.com/bearz314/MacOS9-icons
• MacOS 9 grey: ADACAD
• Wallpaper colour: 63639C
• Wallpaper
• Font

Quikmenu III Theme

• if i can be bothered

Windows 3.1 Nova Launcher theme

Windows 3.1 Nova Launcher theme

• First attempt at theming. Took forever. Use Lawnchair instead!

Theme

• Icon text: black
• Theme file
• Home screen settings, Advanced, Disable Wallpaper Zoom Effects

Wallpaper

• Screenshot taken from Windows 3.1 via DOSBOX-X, with 3x scaling enabled
• Photoshopped into a .GIF (jpeg is fine too)
• Nova Launcher sucks at aligning/setting the wallpaper
• I used Fossify Gallery to set the home screen wallpaper