Hipster

v1.1.0 · by Ayush Bhat · added 6 November 2026

14 bold terminal-style themes: the original Hipster Green from iTerm2/Tabby plus pink, purple, blue, red, amber, matrix, forest, midnight, mint, moss and two light ones

Themes

Install in Forge Super View 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 Hipster. The extension's id is hipster-green-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.

Hipster for Zed

Bold, terminal-style themes for Zed. It started as a port of Hipster Green from iTerm2/Tabby and now has 14 variants.

all variants

Install

In Zed, open the command palette, run zed: extensions, search for Hipster and install it. Then pick a variant with theme selector: toggle.

Variants

Click a name to see its full-size screenshot (shown with JetBrains Mono).

Dark:

Hipster Green Dark: the original iTerm2/Tabby scheme, kept exact
Hipster Green Soft: same colors, but the dim purple and blue are brighter so they're easier to read
Hipster Matrix: pure black and only greens, like an old CRT
Hipster Moss: muted earthy greens for long sessions
Hipster Forest: deep pine background with warm fruit colors
Hipster Midnight: blue-black background with neon green text
Hipster Mint: teal dark with mint text and pink highlights
Hipster Pink: neon pink, palette from the hipster-pink fork
Hipster Purple: violet night with candy accents
Hipster Blue: deep navy with electric blue text
Hipster Red: dark red room with warm coral text
Hipster Amber: orange, like an old amber monitor

Light:

Hipster Sage: soft sage paper with green ink
Hipster Paper: warm cream paper, like printed code

Every variant except the original keeps text at 4.5:1 contrast or better, and gives keywords, functions, types, strings and numbers their own colors. The original stays exact to the source scheme, so its purple and blue are a bit dimmer.

Editing the themes

All variants are generated from scripts/gen.py. Change a palette there and run:

python3 scripts/gen.py          # rewrites themes/hipster.json
python3 scripts/gen.py --check  # contrast report only
python3 scripts/distinct.py     # checks keywords, functions, types etc. look different
python3 scripts/preview.py      # rebuilds screenshots/preview.png

Don't edit the JSON by hand, it gets overwritten.

License

MIT