Neovim default themes for Zed

This is a port of the default Neovim themes made for the Zed editor. It uses the original palette and highlight groups and aims to be as close to the original as possible.

I am by no means good with design and colors. Zed has a lot of UI that Neovim doesn't and I tried to fill in the gaps while being as faithful to the original theme as I could. Input is greatly appreciated.

Besides the original themes, I have added accented versions that are a bit more opinionated.

Previews

Neovim default dark

Neovim default light

Neovim default dark (accented)

Neovim default light (accented)

Usage

Install via Zed Extensions

1. Open Zed
2. cmd+shift+p and select zed: extensions
3. Select Neovim default themes and Install
4. Select the theme variant you want from the dropdown

Install Manually

1. mkdir -p ~/.config/zed/themes/
2. Copy themes/neovim-default.json to ~/.config/zed/themes
3. Select one of the themes in Zed

Development

• The original Neovim highlight groups and palette live in default/
• I made a go program that reads and parses those files and writes the Zed theme to STDOUT. The mapping is done in theme.go with some overrides in main.go. Just run go run . to run the program.
• Run make build to build the theme and write it to themes/neovim-default.json

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

• MIT (for the code and derived theme)
• Apache 2.0 (original Neovim license for the colorschemes)

Notices

This project includes code from the following projects:

• Neovim colorschemes, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.txt for details.

Acknowledgements and attributions

The original colorschemes and palette can be found here