GitHub - regnull/palette-masters-zed: 46 Zed editor themes inspired by master painter palettes — Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse, Rembrandt, and 19 more

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A collection of 46 Zed editor themes inspired by the master palettes of history's most influential painters. Each theme is derived from real color analysis of the artist's body of work, sourced from paletteinspiration.com.

Every artist comes in dark and light variants.

Artists

Artist Dark Theme Light Theme
Claude Monet Monet — Veiled Parchment Monet Light — Veiled Parchment
Vincent van Gogh Van Gogh — Veiled Tawny Van Gogh Light — Veiled Tawny
Henri Matisse Matisse — Muted Tawny Matisse Light — Muted Tawny
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Renoir — Muted Caramel Renoir Light — Muted Caramel
Camille Pissarro Pissarro — Veiled Tawny Pissarro Light — Veiled Tawny
Nicholas Roerich Roerich — Dimmed Parchment Roerich Light — Dimmed Parchment
John Singer Sargent Sargent — Shadowed Tawny Sargent Light — Shadowed Tawny
Ivan Aivazovsky Aivazovsky — Veiled Parchment Aivazovsky Light — Veiled Parchment
Paul Cezanne Cezanne — Penumbral Tawny Cezanne Light — Penumbral Tawny
Edgar Degas Degas — Shadowed Gamboge Degas Light — Shadowed Gamboge
Leonardo da Vinci Da Vinci — Veiled Tawny Da Vinci Light — Veiled Tawny
Rembrandt Rembrandt — Shadowed Bister Rembrandt Light — Shadowed Bister
Pablo Picasso Picasso — Muted Tawny Picasso Light — Muted Tawny
Johannes Vermeer Vermeer — Shadowed Bister Vermeer Light — Shadowed Bister
J.M.W. Turner Turner — Veiled Tawny Turner Light — Veiled Tawny
Gustav Klimt Klimt — Muted Tawny Klimt Light — Muted Tawny
Wassily Kandinsky Kandinsky — Muted Tawny Kandinsky Light — Muted Tawny
Paul Gauguin Gauguin — Shadowed Caramel Gauguin Light — Shadowed Caramel
Caravaggio Caravaggio — Nocturnal Bister Caravaggio Light — Nocturnal Bister
Raphael Raphael — Shadowed Tawny Raphael Light — Shadowed Tawny
Edvard Munch Munch — Muted Tawny Munch Light — Muted Tawny
Diego Velazquez Velazquez — Nocturnal Bister Velazquez Light — Nocturnal Bister
Katsushika Hokusai Hokusai — Soft Ecru Hokusai Light — Soft Ecru

Installation

From Zed Extensions (recommended)

  1. Open Zed
  2. Open the Extensions panel (Cmd+Shift+X on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+X on Linux)
  3. Search for "Palette Masters"
  4. Click Install

Manual install

git clone https://github.com/regnull/palette-masters-zed.git
cd palette-masters-zed
make install

Uninstall (manual installs only)

Auto Light/Dark Switching

To automatically switch between an artist's light and dark theme based on your system appearance, set both variants in your Zed settings.json:

{
  "theme": {
    "mode": "system",
    "dark": "Monet — Veiled Parchment",
    "light": "Monet Light — Veiled Parchment"
  }
}

About

Each theme uses the artist's master palette — a statistical color analysis across their entire body of work. The dark themes use the palette's darkest tones as backgrounds with lighter palette colors and derived accents for syntax highlighting. The light themes invert this relationship, placing darkened palette colors on warm, tinted near-white backgrounds.

All themes include:

  • Full syntax highlighting (44 token types)
  • Terminal ANSI colors (regular, bright, dim)
  • Multiplayer cursor colors
  • Complete UI styling (panels, tabs, status bar, scrollbar, etc.)
  • Status indicators (error, warning, success, info, hints)

Color data sourced from paletteinspiration.com.

License

MIT