Hi, I think htmlize.el should be optional for ox-html. Although htmlize.el is cool, there are still reasons to don't use it, e.g., - Colors looks nice in Emacs looks bad in the web browser - No color at all in batch mode - I want to use third party solutions such pygmentize and highlight.js When user sets org-html-htmlize-output-type to nil, don't use htmlize.el.