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Birds of Paradise

v0.1.0 · by Logan Bresnahan · added 3 November 2026

Birds of Paradise theme for Zed, ported from Joe Bergantine's original (created for Coda, later TextMate).

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Install in Forge SuperView the source

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 Birds of Paradise. The extension's id is birds-of-paradise-theme.

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.

Birds of Paradise for Zed

A warm, brown-based, light-on-dark theme for Zed, ported from the original TextMate theme by Joe Bergantine.

Birds of Paradise screenshot

Install

From the Zed Extension Registry

  1. Open Zed.
  2. Open the command palette (cmd-shift-p / ctrl-shift-p).
  3. Run zed: extensions.
  4. Search for Birds of Paradise and install.
  5. Open the theme picker (cmd-k cmd-t / ctrl-k ctrl-t) and select Birds of Paradise.

Manually (for local development)

Drop themes/birds-of-paradise.json into your Zed themes directory:

  • macOS / Linux: ~/.config/zed/themes/
  • Windows: %AppData%\Zed\themes\

Zed hot-reloads themes from this directory.

Lineage

This Zed theme is the latest link in a long chain:

  • Coda original — Joe Bergantine designed Birds of Paradise as a theme for Panic's Coda editor.
  • TextMate port — Adapted to TextMate; the .tmTheme carries Michael Sheets as author. Source: textmate/Birds-of-Paradise-for-TextMate.
  • VS Code wrapper — gerane re-bundled the .tmTheme for VS Code: gerane/VSCodeThemes/gerane.Theme-Birds_of_Paradise. This port used that wrapper as a reference for color choices, while the actual token mapping was rewritten against Zed's theme schema.
  • Zed port — This repository. Translates the original TextMate scope rules to Zed's canonical syntax tokens and authors the UI chrome (panels, tabs, terminal ANSI, player colors) from the source palette.

Palette

RoleColor
background#372725
foreground#E6E1C4
selection#A40042
keyword#EF5D32
function#EFAC32
variable#7DAF9C
string#D9D762
constant#6C99BB
comment#6B4E32
regex#8856D2

License

BSD-3-Clause. See LICENSE. Inherited from Joe Bergantine's original to preserve the upstream license terms.