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Blackula

v0.1.1 · by Jacob Coffee · added 3 November 2026

A superdark Dracula theme for Zed

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 Blackula. The extension's id is blackula.

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.

blackula

[!NOTE] A dark theme for Zed, with a hint of Dracula (or maybe the other way around?)

Example of theme

Installation

You have a few options (in order of preference):

  1. Install via Zed extensions:
    1. Open Zed.
    2. Press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P to open the command palette.
    3. Select zed: extensions
    4. Type blackula and click Install.
  2. Open blackula.json and copy/paste that into your ~/.config/zed/themes/ directory as blackula.json
  3. Clone this repository, move into your ~/.config/zed/themes/ directory.

Usage

Once you have the theme installed, you can enable it by opening the theme palette (Cmd/Ctrl+K -> Cmd/Ctrl+T) and selecting blackula.

Theme Palette

License

MIT

Credits

I basically merged The Dark Side, my own custom JetBrains theme, and Dracula.