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Zarcula

v0.1.2 · by Ihor Horun · added 3 November 2026

Darcula’s sophisticated cousin, custom-built for Zed.

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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 Zarcula. The extension's id is zarcula-theme.

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README

From the extension's repository, written by its authors and not by Mentenaz. See the source.

Zarcula for Zed

Zarcula is a dark theme for the Zed editor inspired by JetBrains Darcula – but tuned specifically for Zed’s UI, terminal, and collaborative editing experience.

Zarcula: Darcula’s sophisticated cousin, custom-built for Zed.

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Features

Darcula’s sophisticated cousin, custom-built for Zed.

  • Carefully matched backgrounds and borders for

    • Editor and gutter
    • Panels and toolbars
    • Tabs, status bar, and title bar

  • Readable syntax colors

    • Keywords & booleans: #CC7832 (warm orange)
    • Strings & labels: #6A8759 (muted green)
    • Numbers & numeric-like values: #6897BB (blue)
    • Functions: #FFC66D (soft yellow)
    • Types & selectors: #8888C6 (violet)
    • Comments: #808080 (neutral gray)
    • Doc comments: #6A8759 (green, to stand out from regular comments)

  • Integrated terminal styling

    • Dedicated ANSI palette matching the editor colors
    • Tuned normal, bright, and dim colors for long shell sessions

  • Rich diagnostics colors

    • Error / warning / info / hint / success
    • created / modified / deleted / renamed

Installation

You can install Zarcula directly from within Zed:

  1. Open Zed.
  2. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and enter zed: extensions.
  3. Search for "Zarcula" or zed-zarcula-theme extension and install.
  4. Click Install.

Or, if you’re using this repository locally during development:

  1. Clone the repo: 
    git clone https://github.com/igorgoroun/zed-zarcula-theme.git
  2. Open the folder in Zed.
  3. Zed will detect the extension manifest (extension.toml) and offer to load the theme.

Activation

Once installed:

  1. Open Settings → Appearance → Theme.
  2. Choose Zarcula – Dark from the theme list.

You can also use the command palette:

  1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P.
  2. Run “Change Theme”.
  3. Select Zarcula (Dark).

Contributing

Feedback and contributions are welcome:

  1. Fork the repo.

  2. Make your changes to themes/zed-zarcula-theme.json.

  3. Open a pull request on GitHub:

    https://github.com/igorgoroun/zed-zarcula-theme

License

See the LICENSE file in this repository for details.