soft-stone-theme
Emacs24 theme with a light background.
Available on Melpa.
Installation Instructions
add the following lines to your init.el (only if you have not done so already):
(setq package-archives '(("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")))
(package-initialize)
This will add the gnu and melpa repos to your emacs setup.
To install the theme:
M-x package-install soft-stone-theme
To use the soft-stone theme when starting emacs, add this to your init.el:
(load-theme 'soft-stone)