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Serendipity Themes

v1.1.1 · by Nguyen Dang Vinh, Micheal Andreuzza · added 3 November 2026

Relaxed, gentle and modern | Serendipity theme for Zed

Themes
Install in Forge SuperView the source

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 Serendipity Themes. The extension's id is serendipity.

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.

Midnight

Serendipity for Zed.

the color palette is designed to be easy on the eyes, with enough contrast to make individual elements distinguishable but not so bright as to be jarring in a darkened coding environment.

Install via Zed Extensions

  1. Open the Command Palette with ⌘ + Shift + P (macOS) or Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows, Linux)
  2. Open the Extensions view with the zed: extensions command
  3. Search for Serendipity Themes
  4. Click on Install.
  5. Open the Command Palette again
  6. Open the Theme selector with the theme selector: toggle command
  7. Search for Serendipity and choose an Serendipity variant.

Available Options

  • Serendipity Morning (light)
  • Serendipity Sunset (dark)
  • Serendipity Midnight (dark)
  • Serendipity Midnight Electric (dark)

Morning

Morning Preview

Sunset

Sunset Preview

Midnight

Midnight Preview

Midnight Electric

Midnight Preview

Starting from version v1.1.0, all No Italics theme variants have been removed. All themes now use italics for certain language tokens by default. To disable italics for all themes, add this snippet to your settings.json:

  1. Open the Command Palette with ⌘ + Shift + P (macOS) or Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows, Linux).
  2. Open your settings.json by running the zed: open settings file command.
  3. Add this snippet to your settings.json:
"theme_overrides": {
  "Serendipity Morning": {
    "syntax": {
      "attribute": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment.doc": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "emphasis": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function.method": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "link_text": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "property": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.special": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.parameter": { "font_style": "normal" },
    },
  },
  "Serendipity Sunset": {
    "syntax": {
      "attribute": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment.doc": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "emphasis": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function.method": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "link_text": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "property": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.special": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.parameter": { "font_style": "normal" },
    },
  },
  "Serendipity Midnight": {
    "syntax": {
      "attribute": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment.doc": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "emphasis": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function.method": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "link_text": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "property": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.special": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.parameter": { "font_style": "normal" },
    },
  },
  "Serendipity Midnight Electric": {
    "syntax": {
      "attribute": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "comment.doc": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "emphasis": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "function.method": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "link_text": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "property": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.special": { "font_style": "normal" },
      "variable.parameter": { "font_style": "normal" },
    },
  },
}

Serendipity Theme created by Micheal Andreuzza. Twitter