diff --git a/.config/emulationstation/themes/es-theme-carbon b/.config/emulationstation/themes/es-theme-carbon
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..f9b7962a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/emulationstation/themes/es-theme-carbon
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit f9b7962a45f6bcb9f68061b6f26289c1339318cf
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 11c27b09..1ebffaca 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 .config/emulationstation/downloaded_images
 .config/emulationstation/es_log.txt
 .config/emulationstation/gamelists
-.config/emulationstation/themes
+!.config/emulationstation/themes
+!.config/emulationstation/themes/**
 #!.config/mc
 #!.config/mc/ini
 !.config/user-dirs.dirs
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index baefad64..16362259 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[submodule "es-carbon-theme"]
+    path = .config/emulationstation/themes/es-carbon-theme
+    url = https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon
 [submodule "oh-my-zsh"]
     path = .zsh/oh-my-zsh
     url = https://github.com/hanez/oh-my-zsh.git