Air Theme for Zed
Zed port of JetBrains Air — a calm theme family with lavender keywords, pink strings, amber numbers, and green types.
Variants
Four variants included:
- Air Dark — Dark theme
- Air Dark Italic — Dark with italic parameters/strings and bold functions
- Air Light — Light theme
- Air Light Italic — Light with italic parameters/strings and bold functions
Air Dark

Air Dark Italic

Air Light

Air Light Italic

Italic styles
| Token | Style |
|---|---|
function, function.method, function.builtin |
bold |
variable.parameter |
italic |
string, string.escape, string.regex |
italic |
comment |
italic (all variants) |
Installation
From the Extensions tab
cmd+shift+x→ open Extensions- Search for "Air Theme"
- Click Install
cmd+k cmd+t→ pick a variant
Manually (dev extension)
git clone https://github.com/franzgollhammer/air-theme-zed- Open Zed
cmd+shift+p→zed: install dev extension- Select the cloned folder
cmd+k cmd+t→ pick a variant
Terminal themes
Matching terminal themes in terminal-themes/:
- Ghostty —
terminal-themes/ghostty/air-dark,air-light - iTerm2 —
terminal-themes/iterm2/air-dark.itermcolors,air-light.itermcolors - Warp —
terminal-themes/warp/air-dark.yaml,air-light.yaml
Color palette
Dark
| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| Background | #18191B |
| Foreground | #dddddd |
| Comment | #909192 |
| String | #E394DC |
| Keyword | #82D2CE |
| Function | #F8C762 |
| Type | #EFB080 |
| Variable | #AAA0FA |
| Parameter | #A8CC7C |
| Number | #EBC88D |
| Tag | #87C3FF |
Light
| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| Background | #FBFBFC |
| Foreground | #1F2024 |
| Comment | #8C8C8C |
| String | #B03A88 |
| Keyword | #1F7F78 |
| Function | #8D6B1F |
| Type | #A85A29 |
| Variable | #5A4ECF |
| Parameter | #4E7A2A |
| Number | #8F6614 |
| Tag | #1C5DB5 |
Matching icons
Pair this theme with Air Icons for Zed — JetBrains Air-inspired file icons designed to match this color palette.
Related projects
Publishing
See the Zed Extensions docs.
PR against zed-industries/extensions:
git submodule add https://github.com/franzgollhammer/air-theme-zed extensions/air-themeAdd to extensions.toml:
[air-theme]
submodule = "extensions/air-theme"
version = "0.1.0"License
MIT