Zeraphim

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Turquoise and teal. Light and dark. Same palette, everywhere I work.

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Most themes give you somebody else's colors. This one is the palette from my own site — the "Faceted Clarity" design system behind jcdiamante.com — turned into an editor theme.

Deep navy canvas, turquoise accents, and a genuinely usable light variant that isn't just the dark one with the lightness flipped. Every color role was re-derived for a paper-white background instead of being reused, because a turquoise that sings on #060a13 is illegible on #ffffff.

Themes

Palette

Install

From the Zed extension store

1. Open Zed
2. Cmd Shift P → zed: extensions
3. Search for Zeraphim
4. Click Install

As a dev extension

git clone https://github.com/Zeraphim/zed-theme.git

1. In Zed: Cmd Shift P → zed: install dev extension
2. Select the cloned directory
3. Cmd Shift P → theme selector: toggle → pick Zeraphim Dark

Installing as a dev extension temporarily overrides the published version if you already have it installed. The extensions page will show "Overridden by dev extension".

Switching

Cmd K Cmd T opens the theme selector, or Cmd Shift P → theme selector: toggle. Arrow keys preview live; Enter commits.

To pin it, or to follow your system appearance, edit settings.json (Cmd ,):

{
  "theme": {
    "mode": "system",
    "light": "Zeraphim Light",
    "dark": "Zeraphim Dark"
  }
}

Or set one and be done:

{
  "theme": "Zeraphim Dark"
}

What's in the box

• Both appearances, at full parity — 152 style keys each, no gaps between the variants
• 45 syntax captures, covering everything Zed's built-in One theme styles, including emphasis.strong, punctuation.list_marker and string.special.symbol
• 24 terminal colors — all 16 ANSI slots plus bright and dim variants, so the integrated terminal matches the editor instead of fighting it
• 8 player colors for collaboration cursors, drawn from the brand hues
• Italic comments, bold-italic keywords, and weighted headings, echoing the Syne/Lexend split on the site
• Contrast-checked — every foreground was measured against the surface it actually lands on, not eyeballed

About the light variant

Three brand colors don't survive a white background. #c88813 amber reaches only 2.6:1 as text, so warnings, numbers and constants use a corrected #8f6410 while the original amber stays for decoration. Same story for the faint inks. The dark variant uses the brand tokens verbatim.

The terminal's white slots are deliberately inverted in the light theme — programs assume ANSI 15 is a legible foreground, and literal white vanishes on paper.

Contributing

Something looks off? Open an issue. Include a screenshot and the language, if it's a syntax problem.

License

MIT

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Built by @Zeraphim.