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Relaxed

v1.0.0 · by Stefan Cosma, Michael Kühnel · added 3 November 2026

🕶️ A relaxed Zed theme to take a more relaxed view of things.

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 Relaxed. The extension's id is relaxed-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.

Relaxed Theme for Zed

A relaxed Zed theme to take a more relaxed view of things.

A port of the Relaxed theme for Visual Studio Code to Zed.

Installation

  1. Open Extensions in Zed (cmd-shift-x on macOS)
  2. Search for Relaxed
  3. Click Install
  4. Open the theme picker (cmd-k cmd-t) and select Relaxed

Language examples

I don't like something

If something looks funky, please open an issue.

If you would like to change something, you can either open a PR and see if we'd like it added, or override the colors in your own settings.json:

"theme_overrides": {
  "Relaxed": {
    "search.match_background": "#ebc17a40"
  }
}

https://zed.dev/docs/themes

Contributing

Get up and running straight away
  • Fork and clone this repository
  • In Zed, open the Extensions page (cmd-shift-x), click Install Dev Extension and select the cloned directory
  • Open the theme picker (cmd-k cmd-t) and pick the »Relaxed« color theme
Make changes
  • All colors live in themes/relaxed.json
  • After editing, click Rebuild next to the dev extension on the Extensions page to load your changes
  • Available keys are listed in the theme schema. To learn more, check out the theme extension documentation.
Remove the dev extension
  • Click Uninstall next to the dev extension on the Extensions page
  • Reinstall the published Relaxed extension if you had it installed before

Color Palette

RoleColor
Background#2e333b
Editor foreground#d9d9d9
Keywords#b06698
Control keywords (if, return, import)#6a8799
Functions#7eaac7
Strings#909d63
Types / Classes#ebc17a
Built-in constants (None, null, true)#b06698
Tags#bc5653
Comments#727272
Variables, properties, ALL_CAPS constants#d9d9d9
Parameters#b06698
Operators#6a8799
Regex / Escape, SCSS variables#acbbd0
Markdown headings#ebc17a
Markdown links / URLs#6894c1 / #f78c6c

Related

License

Zed port by Stefan Cosma, original theme by Michael Kühnel.

MIT License