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Polycarbonate Dark Theme

v0.0.3 · by Sha1rholder · added 3 November 2026

Turn Zed into a clean slab of dark glass.

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 Polycarbonate Dark Theme. The extension's id is polycarbonate-dark-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.

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Polycarbonate Dark Theme

Turn Zed into a clean slab of dark glass.

Included Themes

  • Polycarbonate sha1
  • Polycarbonate Ayu Dark
  • Polycarbonate Gruvbox Dark
  • Polycarbonate One Dark

Preview

Polycarbonate sha1

Polycarbonate Ayu Dark

Polycarbonate Gruvbox Dark

Installation

  1. Open the Zed extensions page
  2. Search for Polycarbonate Dark
  3. Click install

Using with TranslucentTB

When using it with TranslucentTB, it is recommended to set the accent to clear and the color to #000000DD. This will seamlessly blend Zed with the Windows taskbar, as shown in the preview.

Common Customizations

{
	"experimental.theme_overrides": {
		"background": "#110D", // Background color, defaults to #000D
		"title_bar.background": "#110D", // Top title bar background color, defaults to #000D
		"status_bar.background": "#110D", // Bottom status bar background color, defaults to #000D
		"tab.active_background": "#057", // Active tab background color, defaults to #000
		"search.match_background": "#333", // Search match background color, defaults to #333
		"search.active_match_background": "#666", // Active search match background color, defaults to #666
		"players": [
			{
				"selection": "#6AD8"
			}
		], // Selection area color
		"syntax": {
			"comment": {
				"color": "#7D7", // Comment foreground color
				"background_color": "#0001" // Comment background color
			}
		}
	}
}

Known Issues

Zed's current transparency implementation prevents this theme from displaying git gutter colors. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/55972

Under 10 bpc color depth, the Windows Multi Panel Overlay (MPO) function may encounter a graphics driver error that incorrectly calculates transparency. This bug causes the actual window transparency to be higher than the set transparency. In addition to Zed's native transparency settings, the VSCode skacekachna.win-opacity plugin, foobar2000, and TranslucentTB are all affected by this bug. If you think the default transparency of this plugin is too high, it is most likely due to this bug. The solution is to set the graphics card color depth output to 8 bpc.