I super don't understand the marketplace of color themes.

For sure this is my own ignorance talking and not to do with the projects themselves, but I have questions like: they have a coming-soon slack channel and discord. What are they talking about in there? Is it really just friends talking about shades of the color blue? (Wonderful if so!) Or is there some service being offered, or is it just design aficionados using this as a gathering place to talk about general design things?

Are these projects created by design nerds who simply love it so much that they create things like this or the Dracula theme project for fun? (Excellent!) Or is there some corporate motivation for pushing people to adopt certain color themes?

I think maybe the primary source of my confusion is that the nordtheme.com and draculatheme.com websites in particular feel like product pages rather than "here's a cool thing" pages. Was anyone else looking around for a 'pricing' tab?

Wait, Dracula does have a pricing page! Is there really enough demand for color themes to develop a business model around?

I could be wrong, but it looks like they modified a website template which was originally meant for advertising a service or product, which could explain why it feels a bit strange and overwrought.

Also, I feel like [Base16](https://github.com/chriskempson/base16) is a better approach to the problem, by providing a framework rather than a single palette.

Regarding Discord, considering that everybody and their grandmother has a discord these days, I suppose having one for a color theme is not so surprising. There used to be IRC channels for everything, after all. It's a shame that Discord has gained so much traction, being a proprietary walled garden. That's a topic for another day, though.

edit: also just realized, if my theory about them using a template is correct, the "Join the growing X community" page with discord/slack widgets is probably also just part of that template.