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Pointer Theme

v1.0.0 · by Yuri Nezdemkovski · added 3 November 2026

A theme inspired by the Cursor IDE aesthetic, bringing its familiar dark and light styling to Zed

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 Pointer Theme. The extension's id is pointer-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.

Pointer — Cursor-inspired theme for Zed

A dark and light theme for Zed with colors extracted directly from Cursor IDE's bundled theme files (theme-cursor extension).

Preview

Pointer Dark

Pointer Dark

Pointer Light

Pointer Light

Installation

From extensions (recommended)

  1. Open Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P)
  2. Type extensions
  3. Search for "Pointer" and install

Manual

Copy themes/pointer.json to ~/.config/zed/themes/, then select "Pointer Dark" or "Pointer Light" from the theme picker (Cmd+K Cmd+T).

Author

Yuri Nezdemkovski

License

MIT