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Plastic Legacy Theme

v0.0.1 · by Bipin Thapa · added 3 November 2026

A port of Will Stone's Plastic Legacy theme for Zed. A simple syntax and dark UI theme with a warmer color palette.

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 Plastic Legacy Theme. The extension's id is plastic-legacy-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.

Plastic Theme for Zed

A port of Will Stone's Plastic Legacy theme for the Zed editor. (maintained by Hadi Alqattan)

Plastic Theme

  • Plastic Legacy - Port of the original, earlier Plastic color scheme (warmer function/type colors, punchier terminal palette)

Color Palette

Plastic

ColorHexUsage
#21252B#21252BEditor background
#181A1F#181A1FSidebar, panels
#0D1117#0D1117Borders
#A9B2C3#A9B2C3Editor foreground
#E06C75#E06C75Keywords
#B57EDC#B57EDCFunctions
#61AFEF#61AFEFClasses, storage
#98C379#98C379Strings
#E5C07B#E5C07BTypes, tags
#56B6C2#56B6C2Constants
#D19A66#D19A66Attributes, entities

Plastic Legacy

Shares the same core UI palette as Plastic, but several syntax roles are remapped:

ColorHexUsage
#21252B#21252BEditor background
#181A1F#181A1FSidebar, panels
#0D1117#0D1117Borders
#A9B2C3#A9B2C3Editor foreground
#E06C75#E06C75Keywords, operators
#D19A66#D19A66Functions, attributes, entities
#61AFEF#61AFEFClasses, storage, constructors
#98C379#98C379Strings
#E5C07B#E5C07BNamespaces, tags, special variables
#56B6C2#56B6C2Constants, types
#D4D7D9#D4D7D9Variables, properties

Installation

From Zed Extensions (coming soon)

  1. Open Zed
  2. Open the command palette (Cmd+Shift+P)
  3. Search for "zed: extensions"
  4. Search for "Plastic Theme" and install

Manual Installation

Copy the theme file(s) to your Zed themes directory:

mkdir -p ~/.config/zed/themes
cp themes/plastic.json ~/.config/zed/themes/plastic.json
cp themes/plastic-legacy.json ~/.config/zed/themes/plastic-legacy.json

Then set the theme in your Zed settings (~/.config/zed/settings.json):

{
  "theme": "Plastic"
}

Or, for the legacy variant:

{
  "theme": "Plastic Legacy"
}

Credits

License

MIT