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Old Book

v1.5.5 · by Konstantin Gorodinskii · added 3 November 2026

A colorscheme inspired by the feel of aged books. Minimal, soft, and readable.

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 Old Book. The extension's id is oldbook-theme.

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README

From the extension's repository, written by its authors and not by Mentenaz. See the source.

Oldbook theme

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A colorscheme inspired by the feel of aged books. Minimal, soft, and readable.

VSCODE

vscode

VIM / NVIM

vim

ZED

zed

Installation

VIM / NVIM

You can install this theme using your favorite Vim plugin manager.

Vim-plug
Plug 'gko/oldbook-theme'
Manual Installation
  1. Create the colors directory if it doesn't exist:
    • Vim: mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
    • Neovim: mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/colors
  2. Copy colors/oldbook.vim into that directory.
Usage

To use the colorscheme, add the following line to your vimrc or init.vim:

set background=light

colorscheme oldbook

ZED

From extensions
  1. Open Zed.
  2. Open the command palette (Cmd+Shift+P) and enter zed: extensions.
  3. Search for the Old book extension and install.
  4. Enter theme selector: toggle in the command palette and select the Old book theme in the dropdown.
Manually
  1. Download oldbook-color-theme.json
  2. Put into ~/.config/zed/themes/