New Themes

[iamnbutler]

Since we likely won't add new themes until user themes land, I'd like to close out all the theme issues.

I'll start compiling a list of requested themes here so people may opt into creating the themes people want.

Please use this discussion to talk about/request new themes, and issues created will be closed and pointed here.

Requested Themes:

• Noctis: https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1744
• Oceanic Next: https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1510
• Dracula: https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1491
• Cappuccin: https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1481
• Nord: https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1128
• Serendipity: https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/933

No immediate update on timeline for user themes. I'd like to do this in the next 6 months, but no promises there.

[failable]

Requested themes:

• ef-themes: https://github.com/protesilaos/ef-themes
• modus-themes: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes

[koyeung]

fyi, Modus Themes is available on helix too for reference:
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/runtime/themes/modus_vivendi.toml

[JosephTLyons]

Hey @liebkne and @koyeung, if you are still interested in these themes, can you open issues here?

• https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions/issues/new/choose

[nwjsmith]

I've opened a theme request issue for these. @koyeung @failable if you wanted to slap a 👍 on it I'd appreciate it.

[schonert]

Would like to request Github themes. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.github-vscode-theme

• Github Light Default
• Github Dark Default

[enzime4u]

I would like to request this theme, please :

• Night Shift Theme : https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/vscode-theme-night-shift

Thank you

[pryley]

I would love the Catppuccin theme and Catppuccin icons.

Catppuccin Theme Previews

🌿 Mocha

🌺 Macchiato

🪴 Frappé

🌻 Latte

Catppuccin Icon Previews

🌿 Mocha

🌺 Macchiato

🪴 Frappé

🌻 Latte

[JosephTLyons]

I just wanted to mention that we have been working on a VS Code theme importer and that at some point, it will be public, so others can simply import whatever VS Code themes into Zed!

[praveshishere]

Hi @JosephTLyons , I was trying to use the VS code theme_importer to convert Github Dark Default,
though it fails with the following error

    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.78s
     Running `target/debug/theme_importer /Users/pkunwar/.vscode/extensions/github.github-vscode-theme-6.3.4/themes/dark-default.json`
Error: failed to parse theme "/Users/pkunwar/.vscode/extensions/github.github-vscode-theme-6.3.4/themes/dark-default.json"

Caused by:
    invalid type: sequence, expected a string at line 255 column 3

I don't have much idea how is this supposed to work, if you can guide

[napalmpapalam]

Hi @JosephTLyons , I was trying to use the VS code theme_importer to convert Github Dark Default,

though it fails with the following error

    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.78s

     Running `target/debug/theme_importer /Users/pkunwar/.vscode/extensions/github.github-vscode-theme-6.3.4/themes/dark-default.json`

Error: failed to parse theme "/Users/pkunwar/.vscode/extensions/github.github-vscode-theme-6.3.4/themes/dark-default.json"



Caused by:

    invalid type: sequence, expected a string at line 255 column 3

I don't have much idea how is this supposed to work, if you can guide

Looks like you have to fix type in GitHub theme according to theme schema.

[praveshishere]

Hi @napalmpapalam, at line no 255, the color, property ends and i am not sure what to fix

[napalmpapalam]

Hi @napalmpapalam, at line no 255, the color, property ends and i am not sure what to fix

Try to add this https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/c2df354c9fde197a2fade2bb342da7f427fd390d/extensions/theme-defaults/themes/dark_plus.json#L2 and open file with vscode, maybe it will highlight any fields with errors

[praveshishere]

Thanks @napalmpapalam! it worked. Once I set the schema property, it hinted at
the properties needing removal. With that done, the conversion went smoothly.

[MarkusZoppelt]

I'd also like to add Tokyo Night into the mix:

https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim

[d1y]

This would be great 🦄

• VScode Dark Modern Theme 🔥
• VScode Monokai Theme
• https://github.com/74th/vscode-monokaicharcoal
• https://github.com/antfu/vscode-theme-vitesse

[epmoyer]

Hi @d1y ! I just published a set of 3 Monoakai Zed themes at https://github.com/epmoyer/Zed-Monokai-Theme

User Theme support is only in Zed Preview right now, but presumably it will make its way to core Zed soon enough. Cheers!

[jmegs]

+1 for Vitesse

[d1y]

Can be made with theme_importer

[jiesia]

Why does the folder on the left side of your zed editor have an expand/collapse arrow icon? How to do this?

[calebmeyer]

I'd really love to get the spacemacs light and dark themes: https://github.com/nashamri/spacemacs-theme

[Otterpocket]

For anybody interested in the Dracula theme mentioned here https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1491
I have made progress on user theme here.
https://github.com/Otterpocket/zed-dracula-theme

[napalmpapalam]

Default VSCode Dark Plus theme port https://vscode.dev/editor/theme/

[foxkdev]

I suggest, to manage all this themes, I propose next actions:

1. create a plugins manager UI with section themes as VSCode Extensions UI.
   List of extensions in new repo zed/plugins with folder themes/ and theme-name.json with: name, description, repository, author, version.
   The Plugins Manager in Zed Read repository zed/plugins in themes/ folder and list all with information of theme-name.json defined before.

In themes only I suggest this workflow to publish theme "plugin" with cost "0" to staff:

1. Developer PR zed/plugins with new file [theme-name].json with structure defined before.
2. CI checks author sign eula(same current PRs)
3. CI check json theme from repository of author are valid and format correct.
4. Auto Approve theme (or manual approve if you prefer).

With this we have:

• Repository with registry of themes of community (or incluse zed themes).
• Plugins Manager with list of all themes from repository in real-time.
• Plugins manager feature to install theme: copy into ~/.config/zed/themes directly and select theme.

With this starts base of Plugins Manager UI.

I have more ideas about rating, filtering, previews, etc

Feedback please!

[napalmpapalam]

I've ported my theme from the VSCode to the Zed, there it is if you would like. https://github.com/napalmpapalam/napalmpapalam-theme-zed

[JosephTLyons]

Hey @napalmpapalam, would you be willing to add it to our new extension store?

[napalmpapalam]

Hey @JosephTLyons. Yeah, I opened a related extensions#48 pull request.

[gopeter]

Would be great to have the Xcode theme in Zed

[Brunowilliang]

🚀 New Theme Announcement: ZedSpace
https://github.com/Brunowilliang/zedspace

Enjoy 🥳

[JosephTLyons]

Hey @Brunowilliang, would you be willing to add it to our new extension store?

[JosephTLyons]

Hey everyone, now that we have the plugins extension store open, I'd like to close this Discussion out. If you are wanting to request a theme extension, please open a theme request issue in that repo:

• https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions/issues/new/choose

[michealp-coder]

I wonder if creating a new Enhancement Request for there to exist functionality within Zed that will automatically import a VSCode theme and convert it (all done within Zed automatically, as opposed to needing to build Zed from scratch, install Xcode, etc) would make more sense before closing this ticket.

[Moshyfawn]

There's a VSCode -> Zed theme exporter extension that might do the trick.

[michealp-coder]

That VSCode extension is a bit scary.

It attempts to launch in the background a Home Brew package to silently install onto your machine some type of executable, without you knowing.

It's not clear to me what the executable is doing that is being silently installed, and I'm only aware of this because the extension error out - due to me not having Home Brew installed (and the extension could use the 'brew' command)

[melodyLeonard]

I would love to see the

• Just Black + Comments

[Takk8IS]

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https://github.com/Takk8IS/green-monochrome-monitor-theme-for-zed

Green Monochrome Monitor Dark Theme

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