A Distant Hope Theme

Update: My PR was merged last week! You can now install the theme from within Zed by opening the Extensions and searching for it!

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Instead of my usual news roundup, today I’d like to share the theme I’ve been working on for a little while.

Back in my Emacs Phase, I greatly enjoyed a theme included in Doom Emacs called “doom-old-hope”. I’ve since learned this was based on an earlier theme for the Atom text editor.

For the past year, I’ve been using Zed as my regular text editor. Since I haven’t seen any themes matching “An Old Hope” in Zed’s theme library, I decided to make my own.

Today, I want to give back to the Zed community, so I’m releasing a theme I’m calling A Distant Hope.

The colors don’t match 1:1 with An Old Hope, and that’s intentional. I drew inspiration from that theme, but had a few ideas of my own :)

I primarily use Zed on a mac, and so one of the aims of this theme is to match the Zed window chrome with macOS’s so it blends in with the rest of my applications.

Installation

I’m still working to get a PR approved so it can be added to the theme list Zed’s extensions view, but you can grab it right now by:

1. Cloning the repo cd ~/.config/zed/themes/ && git clone https://github.com/chrislockard/a-distant-hope-theme
2. In Zed, open command palette (e.g., cmd-shift-p) and run “zed: install dev extension” and enter ~/.config/zed/themes/a-distant-hope-theme
3. Open the command palette again and enter theme selector: toggle and choose A Distant Hope

I hope you enjoy the theme! PRs and comments welcome!