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Monobrut

v0.1.0 · by Andreas Kull · added 3 November 2026

A high-contrast brutalist theme collection for 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 Monobrut. The extension's id is monobrut-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.

Monobrut

A dark, high-contrast brutalist theme for Zed with unified surfaces, crisp borders, and expressive signal colors.

Default: Warm, balanced signal colors on a deep black field.

Monobrut default theme in Zed with a Go service, project navigation, and terminal

Breuer: Hard brutalism: one concrete-black field, uncompromising white structure, rust active states, and exposed signal colors. Named for brutalist architect Marcel Breuer.

Monobrut Breuer theme in Zed with a Go service, project navigation, and terminal

Säure: Cold cyberpunk structure with cyan borders, acid-green interaction states, and a near-black field.

Monobrut Säure theme in Zed with a Go service, project navigation, and terminal

Installation

  1. Open Zed Extensions with ctrl-shift-x.
  2. Search for Monobrut and install it.
  3. Open the theme selector with cmd-k cmd-t on macOS or ctrl-k ctrl-t on Linux and Windows.
  4. Select Monobrut.

To try the development version, clone this repository and run zed: install dev extension from Zed's command palette, then select the cloned directory.

Development

The theme lives in themes/monobrut.json and follows Zed's theme schema.