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Alabaster

v0.1.0 · by Nikita Prokopov · added 3 November 2026

Minimal mindful highlighting

Themes

How to install

With Forge Super installed, the button above opens the app on this extension, where you press Install. Nothing is installed until you do.

You can also open the Extensions panel in the app and search for Alabaster. The extension's id is alabaster-official.

Don't have Forge Super yet? Download it here.

README

From the extension's repository, written by its authors and not by Mentenaz. See the source.

Alabaster Theme for Zed

A color theme with minimal amount of highlighting for Zed.

  • No Christmas lights diarrhea. If everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted.
  • Limit the number of colors to what you can remember.
  • Highlight definitions.
  • Don’t highlight language keywords.
  • Don’t hide comments.

Read full rationale at tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting.

Other implementations here.