The Relaxed theme is now available for Zed. Version 1.0.0 brings the calm colors you might have enjoyed in your terminal and VS Code to the blazingly fast, Rust-powered editor.
Backstory
Back in 2018 I released the »Relaxed Theme«, a color scheme I had fine-tuned for my terminal over quite a while. A Visual Studio Code version followed shortly after and has been used by me and many others for almost a decade.
Today I'm happy to announce that »Relaxed Theme« has shipped as version 1.0.0 for Zed 🎉
How I ended up here
I stumbled upon Zed a while ago and got curious. I played around a bit and began configuring it to my needs (pretty much in a VS Code style). After some basic settings, tossing panels from one side to the other and installing just one additional extension, I was quite taken with it.
After scrolling through settings.json, some additional minor tweaks here and there and using Zed as my primary work tool, I became a fan.
The built-in »One Dark« theme is more than okay. But of course I dug through third-party themes and discovered that Stefan Cosma had already ported »Relaxed« to Zed. What a pleasant surprise.
So I invited Stefan to the Relaxed-Theme organization on GitHub, where the port now lives next to the terminal and VS Code versions, and started polishing. Now I'm really happy to use Zed exactly the way I want it to feel.
What's new in 1.0.0
The goal was simple: if you know »Relaxed Theme« from VS Code, it should feel exactly the same in Zed. Stefan's port was a great starting point, but Zed highlights code a little differently, so here and there a color didn't match and the theme felt slightly off.
Version 1.0.0 closes that gap. Your code looks the way you know it from VS Code, diffs and merge conflicts are easy to read, and the UI got a bit calmer and easier on the eyes.
Installation
- Open Extensions in Zed (
cmd-shift-xon macOS) - Search for
Relaxed - Click Install
- Open the theme picker (
cmd-k cmd-t) and select Relaxed
That's it. Or check the Zed extension page and the repository on GitHub.
In action
TypeScript / React:
Sass:
Python:
Rust:
You'll find more examples (JSON, HTML, Markdown, diffs and merge conflicts) in the README.
Make it yours
If you'd like to change a color without forking the theme, Zed lets you override single values in your settings.json:
"theme_overrides": {
"Relaxed": {
"search.match_background": "#ebc17a40"
}
}
The full list of available keys is in the theme documentation.
That's it for now. Thanks again to Stefan for getting the ball rolling. If something looks funky, please open an issue. Pull requests are welcome as well :octocat:
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