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Neovim default themes

v0.3.0 · by Kim Nørgaard · added 3 November 2026

A port of the default Neovim themes

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 Neovim default themes. The extension's id is neovim-default.

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.

Neovim default themes for Zed

This is a port of the default Neovim themes made for the Zed editor. It uses the original palette and highlight groups and aims to be as close to the original as possible.

I am by no means good with design and colors. Zed has a lot of UI that Neovim doesn't and I tried to fill in the gaps while being as faithful to the original theme as I could. Input is greatly appreciated.

Besides the original themes, I have added accented versions that are a bit more opinionated.

Previews

Neovim default dark

Dark

Neovim default light

Light

Neovim default dark (accented)

Accented Dark

Neovim default light (accented)

Accented Light

Usage

Install via Zed Extensions

  1. Open Zed
  2. cmd+shift+p and select zed: extensions
  3. Select Neovim default themes and Install
  4. Select the theme variant you want from the dropdown

Install Manually

  1. mkdir -p ~/.config/zed/themes/
  2. Copy themes/neovim-default.json to ~/.config/zed/themes
  3. Select one of the themes in Zed

Development

  • The original Neovim highlight groups and palette live in default/
  • I made a go program that reads and parses those files and writes the Zed theme to STDOUT. The mapping is done in theme.go with some overrides in main.go. Just run go run . to run the program.
  • Run make build to build the theme and write it to themes/neovim-default.json

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

  • MIT (for the code and derived theme)
  • Apache 2.0 (original Neovim license for the colorschemes)

Notices

This project includes code from the following projects:

  • Neovim colorschemes, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.txt for details.

Acknowledgements and attributions

The original colorschemes and palette can be found here