Oceanic Rift

v0.1.0 · by Jeff Schuil · added 3 November 2026

A deep-ocean dark theme for Zed, adapted from the Oceanic Reef theme.

Themes

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 Oceanic Rift. The extension's id is oceanic-rift-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.

Oceanic Rift for Zed

A deep-ocean dark theme for the Zed editor — calm blue surfaces with a warm, high-contrast syntax palette. The Zed sibling of the Oceanic Rift VS Code theme.

Install

From the published Zed extension registry: open Extensions in Zed, search Oceanic Rift, install, then pick it from the theme selector (cmd-k cmd-t).

Local / development

Either copy the theme into your Zed config:

cp themes/oceanic-rift.json ~/.config/zed/themes/

…or install this repo as a dev extension: Zed command palette → zed: install dev extension → select this folder.

Notes

This Zed theme is a faithful adaptation of the VS Code theme's feel rather than a 1:1 match (some fine-grained distinctions, like storage vs. control keywords, collapse into a single capture in Zed). The palette is shared — see PALETTE.md in the VS Code repo.

Credits

Part of a lineage of ocean themes:

Oceanic Rift (this, for Zed) and the VS Code edition — adapted from
Oceanic Reef — the author's Atom syntax theme, itself based off
Oceanic — the original Textmate/Sublime color scheme by memco.