zed.nvim

The Zed editor look for Neovim: two faithful ports of Zed's built-in themes, one port of a Zed extension theme, and three original palettes designed to sit next to them. All dark, all with matching tmux and iTerm2 presets for a fully consistent terminal experience.

Variant	Background	Foreground	Accent	Origin
zed-one-dark	#282c33	#acb2be	#74ade8	Zed "One Dark" (exact hex from Zed's theme JSON)
zed-ayu-mirage	#242835	#cccac2	#72cffe	Zed "Ayu Mirage" (exact hex from Zed's theme JSON)
zed-macos-classic-dark	#131313	#dddddd	#fdd888	"macOS Classic Dark" from Zed's macos-classic extension
zed-graph-paper	#2a2a24	#c5c2b0	#c2662f	Original: drafting-mat palette — olive-charcoal paper, sage grid, burnt-orange ruler
zed-oscilloscope	#1e1f1c	#c4c9bc	#8fd072	Original: neutral graphite + phosphor green, amber/cyan "channels"
zed-blueprint	#212b36	#c3cfda	#85b8d9	Original: Prussian-blue cyanotype + ice cyan, pale brass and sea foam

vim.cmd.colorscheme("zed-one-dark") -- or any variant above

The three originals were designed as a set: graph-paper matches a drafting-mat wallpaper, oscilloscope and blueprint are "tools on the workbench" companions with the same calm contrast.

Note on zed-macos-classic-dark: two deliberate deviations from the extension's JSON, both commented in palette.lua — the extension's players[0] is an untouched template leftover (cursor/accent use the theme's gold instead), and its terminal.ansi black/white are swapped upstream (sanitized here so :terminal stays readable).

• Every variant defined over the same 54 semantic palette keys — highlight logic is variant-agnostic
• Treesitter and LSP semantic token highlights
• 20+ plugin integrations (Telescope, Neo-tree, nvim-cmp, blink.cmp, gitsigns, which-key, snacks.nvim, flash, trouble, noice, mini.nvim, dap, and more)
• Terminal ANSI colors
• Transparent background support
• Matching tmux theme and iTerm2 color preset per variant

{
  "daaanny90/zed.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("zed-one-dark")
  end,
}

use {
  "daaanny90/zed.nvim",
  config = function()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("zed-one-dark")
  end,
}

git clone https://github.com/daaanny90/zed.nvim \
  ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/plugins/start/zed.nvim

Optional — call before colorscheme. All options with their defaults:

require("zed").setup({
  variant = "one-dark",    -- used when loading via require("zed").load()
  transparent = false,     -- transparent background (requires terminal transparency)
  italic_comments = true,  -- italic style for comments (Zed default)
  bold_keywords = false,   -- keep keywords regular (Zed look)
  terminal_colors = true,  -- set terminal ANSI colors
})

Each :colorscheme zed-<variant> command selects its variant directly; setup() only changes styling options (and the default variant for programmatic loading).

1. Open iTerm2 → Settings → Profiles → Colors
2. Click Color Presets... → Import...
3. Select extras/zed-<variant>.itermcolors
4. Pick it from the Color Presets... dropdown

Source the matching theme in your tmux config:

source-file /path/to/zed.nvim/extras/zed-one-dark.tmux

• Zed Industries for the One Dark and Ayu Mirage themes this started from
• The macos-classic Zed extension for the macOS Classic Dark palette

MIT