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This feels shallow, but one of the biggest things keeping me from using zed is the lack of a good default dark theme. The defaults all feel very low contrast,
by MeetingsBrowser 5mo ago
This feels shallow, but one of the biggest things keeping me from using zed is the lack of a good default dark theme.
The defaults all feel very low contrast, gray on gray that makes the experience feel dull and off putting to me, even if the editor itself is great.
- hmokiguess 5mo agoTry this one, it’s my recent favourite and very polished: https://zed.dev/extensions/amp-theme https://zed.dev/extensions/amp-theme
- lindig 5mo agoThe repository link on that page does not work. Is there a preview?
- hmokiguess 5mo agoYou can see it on vscode themes https://vscodethemes.com/e/hrose.amp-theme/amp-dark https://vscodethemes.com/e/hrose.amp-theme/amp-dark
- pretzel5297 5mo agocan one match themes between two editors given zed uses treesitter?
- MeetingsBrowser 5mo agoThe repo for this theme is no longer available > The page you are trying to reach either does not exist, has been removed or you are not authorized to view it.
- hmokiguess 5mo agoYeah unfortunately looks like the maintainer made their stuff private, but it still works, I may republish it if gets removed from the store it’s so good.
- jeorb 5mo agoIt's not just you and it's not just Zed. Dark themes tend to be low contrast gray on gray. I usually look for a dark theme that looks good and then make a custom version with darker the background colors and brighter the foreground colors. Maybe it's time for to start publishing high contrast dark themes instead of just fixing it for myself.
- tuzemec 5mo agoThat's what I did: https://github.com/tuzemec/zedokai-darkest-machine https://github.com/tuzemec/zedokai-darkest-machine
- hdjrudni 5mo agoI like it! Thanks
- rapnie 5mo agoI do a lot of markdown editing, techdocs, static site generator, and the gray on gray makes me want to swap back to VSCodium for that task.
- helloplanets 5mo agoIt should take less than a minute to install a nice, high contrast dark theme, if you just search for the theme inside the Extensions window in Zed. But I understand your point, no reason for it not to come with a couple good high contrast dark themes.
- pretzel5297 5mo agoZed generally feels very engineer-designed and not in a good way.
- lycopodiopsida 5mo agoIt may feel even more shallow, but what keeps me on emacs are modus-themes. With luck, you can find a passable theme in your editor/ide of choice, but to find a good, high-contrast light theme is almost impossible.
- hyperknot 5mo agoAdd this to fix the contrast in all your dark themes: "experimental.theme_overrides": { "background": "#111", "panel.background": "#111", "text": "#eee", "text.muted": "#ccc", "title_bar.background": "#111", "tab_bar.background": "#111", "toolbar.background": "#111", "status_bar.background": "#111", "element.selected": "#333", "editor.background": "#000", "editor.gutter.background": "#000" }