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KeepCalm

v1.0.1 · by Sergio García Mondaray · added 3 November 2026

A calm and focused theme for software development in Zed

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 KeepCalm. The extension's id is keepcalm.

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.

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KeepCalm

A calm and focused dark theme for Zed.

Installation

  1. Open Zed
  2. Open the command palette (Cmd+Shift+P)
  3. Search for "zed: extensions"
  4. Search for "KeepCalm" and click Install

Color Palette

ElementColor
Background#1d191a
Foreground#e7e8ea
Keywords#e7809c
Functions#d4c79a
Strings#7fac82
Types#efac71
Comments#6e7681

Local Development

To test the theme locally:

cp -r . ~/.config/zed/extensions/installed/keepcalm

Or use Zed's command palette: "zed: install dev extension"

Publishing

Initial Publication

  1. Fork the zed-industries/extensions repository

  2. Add this repository as a submodule (use HTTPS, not SSH):

    git submodule add https://github.com/sgmonda/keepcalm-zed.git extensions/keepcalm

  3. Add an entry to extensions.toml:

    [keepcalm]
submodule = "extensions/keepcalm"
version = "1.0.0"

  4. Sort the extensions:

    pnpm sort-extensions

  5. Open a pull request to zed-industries/extensions

Publishing Updates

When you have new changes to publish:

  1. Update version in extension.toml

  2. Commit and push changes to this repository

  3. In your fork of zed-industries/extensions:

    git submodule update --remote extensions/keepcalm

  4. Update the version in extensions.toml to match

  5. Run pnpm sort-extensions

  6. Open a pull request

Alternatively, use the zed-extension-action GitHub Action to automate updates.

License

MIT