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Palette Masters

v0.0.1 · by regnull · added 3 November 2026

46 color themes inspired by the master palettes of history's most influential painters

Themes
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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 Palette Masters. The extension's id is palette-masters-theme.

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README

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

Palette Masters — Zed Themes

A collection of 46 Zed editor themes inspired by the master palettes of history's most influential painters. Each theme is derived from real color analysis of the artist's body of work, sourced from paletteinspiration.com.

Every artist comes in dark and light variants.

Artists

ArtistDark ThemeLight Theme
Claude MonetMonet — Veiled ParchmentMonet Light — Veiled Parchment
Vincent van GoghVan Gogh — Veiled TawnyVan Gogh Light — Veiled Tawny
Henri MatisseMatisse — Muted TawnyMatisse Light — Muted Tawny
Pierre-Auguste RenoirRenoir — Muted CaramelRenoir Light — Muted Caramel
Camille PissarroPissarro — Veiled TawnyPissarro Light — Veiled Tawny
Nicholas RoerichRoerich — Dimmed ParchmentRoerich Light — Dimmed Parchment
John Singer SargentSargent — Shadowed TawnySargent Light — Shadowed Tawny
Ivan AivazovskyAivazovsky — Veiled ParchmentAivazovsky Light — Veiled Parchment
Paul CezanneCezanne — Penumbral TawnyCezanne Light — Penumbral Tawny
Edgar DegasDegas — Shadowed GambogeDegas Light — Shadowed Gamboge
Leonardo da VinciDa Vinci — Veiled TawnyDa Vinci Light — Veiled Tawny
RembrandtRembrandt — Shadowed BisterRembrandt Light — Shadowed Bister
Pablo PicassoPicasso — Muted TawnyPicasso Light — Muted Tawny
Johannes VermeerVermeer — Shadowed BisterVermeer Light — Shadowed Bister
J.M.W. TurnerTurner — Veiled TawnyTurner Light — Veiled Tawny
Gustav KlimtKlimt — Muted TawnyKlimt Light — Muted Tawny
Wassily KandinskyKandinsky — Muted TawnyKandinsky Light — Muted Tawny
Paul GauguinGauguin — Shadowed CaramelGauguin Light — Shadowed Caramel
CaravaggioCaravaggio — Nocturnal BisterCaravaggio Light — Nocturnal Bister
RaphaelRaphael — Shadowed TawnyRaphael Light — Shadowed Tawny
Edvard MunchMunch — Muted TawnyMunch Light — Muted Tawny
Diego VelazquezVelazquez — Nocturnal BisterVelazquez Light — Nocturnal Bister
Katsushika HokusaiHokusai — Soft EcruHokusai Light — Soft Ecru

Installation

From Zed Extensions (recommended)

  1. Open Zed
  2. Open the Extensions panel (Cmd+Shift+X on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+X on Linux)
  3. Search for "Palette Masters"
  4. Click Install

Manual install

git clone https://github.com/regnull/palette-masters-zed.git
cd palette-masters-zed
make install

Uninstall (manual installs only)

make uninstall

Auto Light/Dark Switching

To automatically switch between an artist's light and dark theme based on your system appearance, set both variants in your Zed settings.json:

{
  "theme": {
    "mode": "system",
    "dark": "Monet — Veiled Parchment",
    "light": "Monet Light — Veiled Parchment"
  }
}

About

Each theme uses the artist's master palette — a statistical color analysis across their entire body of work. The dark themes use the palette's darkest tones as backgrounds with lighter palette colors and derived accents for syntax highlighting. The light themes invert this relationship, placing darkened palette colors on warm, tinted near-white backgrounds.

All themes include:

  • Full syntax highlighting (44 token types)
  • Terminal ANSI colors (regular, bright, dim)
  • Multiplayer cursor colors
  • Complete UI styling (panels, tabs, status bar, scrollbar, etc.)
  • Status indicators (error, warning, success, info, hints)

Color data sourced from paletteinspiration.com.

License

MIT