Unless my Googling has missed it, Office 2016 has only four colour themes available:
Colorful
Dark Gray
Black
White
all of which are painful to look at AND there is no way to edit these themes or add a theme that doesn't give you a headache. Clearly MS thinks this is what users want but I'm bewildered by their logic.
Ken
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Re: office 2016 color themes
Microsoft has been informed of users' general dissatisfaction with the color themes many, many times, in no uncertain terms. Adding Colorful and Black was apparently the best they could come up with.
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I picked that up from my searches!HansV wrote:Microsoft has been informed of users' general dissatisfaction with the color themes many, many times, in no uncertain terms...
Oh well...
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At least the captions of the ribbon tabs are in Proper Case again, after having been changed to ALL CAPS in Office 2013. I don't know which illegal substance the development team had smoked or ingested when they took that decision... 
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Who says it was anything illegal that prompted the decision?
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Re: office 2016 color themes
Out of all of the themes in 2016, colourful is the the only one that's just about acceptable. The others are painful (as stated above).
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I will go along with that! even with the double "the"colourful is the the only one that's just about acceptable
I am so far behind, I think I am First 
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It was stressful just to type about the themes, hence the error...Regards,
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Re: office 2016 color themes
To paraphrase a saying, I've noticed that 'ugliness is only skin deep'.
Our network is having a bad time at the moment so my Office apps are regularly hanging for a few seconds before picking up again where they left off. When they do that the title bar reports 'not responding' but, while reporting the error, the style of the title bar reverts to the old, softer, Office 2010 style, i.e. it looses its stark 'colourful' skin.
That implies it would not be hard for MS to give users the option to use a less bleak interface yet we all know that's never going to happen.
Ken
Our network is having a bad time at the moment so my Office apps are regularly hanging for a few seconds before picking up again where they left off. When they do that the title bar reports 'not responding' but, while reporting the error, the style of the title bar reverts to the old, softer, Office 2010 style, i.e. it looses its stark 'colourful' skin.
That implies it would not be hard for MS to give users the option to use a less bleak interface yet we all know that's never going to happen.
Ken