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Borderless Minimal

v0.1.0 · by hatemecha · added 3 November 2026

Borderless dark themes for Zed. Green, amber, and ice variants.

Themes
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 Borderless Minimal. The extension's id is borderless-minimal-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.

Borderless Minimal for Zed

Borderless Minimal is a small Zed theme extension inspired by a custom Obsidian theme built around old CRT phosphor displays.

The package includes three dark variants:

  • Borderless Minimal Ice
  • Borderless Minimal Green
  • Borderless Minimal Amber

Design Notes

Zed themes can control colors, syntax colors, terminal colors, and editor chrome. They cannot inject custom CSS, overlays, scanlines, or animation like an Obsidian theme can.

This port keeps the parts Zed can express:

  • low-luminance black and brown backgrounds
  • monochrome phosphor foregrounds
  • borderless surfaces separated by contrast only
  • restrained glow-like accents via contrast and selection colors
  • monochrome-leaning syntax with small hue shifts for readability

Local Development

  1. Keep this folder as the extension root.
  2. Copy it into Zed's development extensions directory.
  3. Run node scripts/build-theme.mjs after palette changes.
  4. In Zed, run zed: reload extensions.

Publishing Checklist

  1. Commit the generated themes/borderless-minimal.json.
  2. Keep an accepted license in the repo. This project uses MIT.
  3. Push the repo to GitHub.
  4. Submit the extension to the zed-industries/extensions index by adding your repository as a submodule and an entry in that repo's extensions.toml.

Files

  • extension.toml: extension metadata used by Zed.
  • scripts/build-theme.mjs: small generator for the theme family.
  • themes/borderless-minimal.json: generated Zed theme definition.