Zord Theme

Author: Diogo PereiraThemes in extension: 1

A modern and minimalistic dark theme for the Zed editor, focused on visual comfort, balanced contrast, and a color palette inspired by Dracula, with its own strong identity.

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Zed preview

macOS Zed window using this variant's theme style.

coding-thememain/zed

coding-theme

src

theme.rsM

palette.jsonU

main.rs

Cargo.tomlM

README.md

theme.rs

palette.json

src›theme.rs

FixSelections

//! Palette tokens for the Zed buffer.

use gpui::{Hsla, px};unused import: `px`

const MAX_LUM: f32 = 0.5;

#[derive(Clone, Debug)]

pub struct Palette { background: Hsla }

impl Palette {

pub fn is_dark(&self) -> bool {

self.background.l < MAX_LUM

}

}

fn main() {

let palette = Palette { background: Hsla::from(0x282c33) };

let fallback = true;

println!("{palette:#?}");

}

coding-theme

~/coding-theme on zed ❯ cargo run --release
   Compiling coding-theme v0.1.0 (/Users/zed/coding-theme)
    Finished `release` profile [optimized] target(s) in 4.82s
     Running `target/release/coding-theme`
theme: Palette { background: #171c20, accent: #bd93f9 }
❯ 

rust-analyzer12src/theme.rs

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colors

UI color keys from this variant's theme style.

key	HEX	RGB	RGBA
accents
background
border
border.disabled
border.focused
border.selected
border.variant
conflict
conflict.background
conflict.border
created
created.background
created.border
deleted
deleted.background
deleted.border
editor.active_line_number
editor.active_line.background
editor.background
editor.document_highlight.read_background
editor.document_highlight.write_background
editor.foreground
editor.gutter.background
editor.highlighted_line.background
editor.line_number
editor.subheader.background
element.active
element.background
element.disabled
element.hover
element.selected
elevated_surface.background
error
error.background
error.border
ghost_element.hover
ghost_element.selected
hint
hint.background
hint.border
icon
icon.accent
icon.disabled
icon.muted
icon.placeholder
info
info.background
info.border
link_text.hover
panel.background
panel.focused_border
player.0.background
player.0.cursor
player.0.selection
player.1.background
player.1.cursor
player.1.selection
player.2.background
player.2.cursor
player.2.selection
player.3.background
player.3.cursor
player.3.selection
player.4.background
player.4.cursor
player.4.selection
player.5.background
player.5.cursor
player.5.selection
player.6.background
player.6.cursor
player.6.selection
scrollbar.thumb.background
scrollbar.thumb.border
scrollbar.thumb.hover_background
scrollbar.track.background
scrollbar.track.border
search.match_background
status_bar.background
success
success.background
success.border
surface.background
tab_bar.background
tab.active_background
tab.inactive_background
terminal.ansi.background
terminal.background
terminal.bright_foreground
terminal.dim_foreground
terminal.foreground
text
text.accent
text.disabled
text.muted
text.placeholder
title_bar.background
toolbar.background
warning
warning.background
warning.border

syntax

Syntax capture colors from the theme style. Italic and bold are not listed — the preview above shows them in the code.

capture	HEX	RGB	RGBA
attribute
boolean
comment
comment.doc
constant
constructor
embedded
emphasis
emphasis.strong
enum
function
hint
keyword
label
link_text
link_uri
number
operator
predictive
preproc
primary
property
punctuation
punctuation.bracket
punctuation.delimiter
punctuation.list_marker
punctuation.special
string
string.escape
string.regex
string.special
string.special.symbol
tag
text.literal
title
type
type.interface
type.super
variable
variable.member
variable.parameter
variable.special
variant

settings.json

Search for "Zord Theme" in the Zed extensions store, then paste the settings below.

{
  "theme": {
    "mode": "dark",
    "light": "Zord Theme - Dark",
    "dark": "Zord Theme - Dark"
  }
}

Theme file