Loi Paper
A warm-paper Zed theme: cream surfaces in light mode, soft charcoal in dark mode, with restrained coral accents reserved for cursor, links, tags, and emphasis.
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 Loi Paper. The extension's id is loi-paper-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.
Loi Paper — a Zed theme
A theme for Zed with a warm paper aesthetic: cream surfaces in light mode, soft charcoal in dark mode, restrained coral accents reserved for cursor, links, syntax tags, and emphasis. The goal is a calm editor that still has personality.
Two variants ship in this extension:
- Loi Paper Light — warm off-white background (
#faf9f5), warm dark text, coral accent (#c96442). - Loi Paper Dark — warm charcoal background (
#262624), cream text, soft coral accent (#d97757).
Install from the Zed extension store
- Open the command palette (
⌘⇧P) and runzed: extensions. - Search for
Loi Paper. - Click Install.
- Open the theme selector (
⌘K ⌘T) and pick Loi Paper Light or Loi Paper Dark.
Install as a dev extension
- Clone this repo locally.
- In Zed:
zed: install dev extensionfrom the command palette. - Select this folder.
- Pick the theme from
⌘K ⌘T.
Auto-switch with system appearance
Add this to ~/.config/zed/settings.json:
{
"theme": {
"mode": "system",
"light": "Loi Paper Light",
"dark": "Loi Paper Dark"
}
}