Birds of Paradise for Zed
A warm, brown-based, light-on-dark theme for Zed, ported from the original TextMate theme by Joe Bergantine.

Install
From the Zed Extension Registry
- Open Zed.
- Open the command palette (
cmd-shift-p/ctrl-shift-p). - Run
zed: extensions. - Search for Birds of Paradise and install.
- Open the theme picker (
cmd-k cmd-t/ctrl-k ctrl-t) and select Birds of Paradise.
Manually (for local development)
Drop themes/birds-of-paradise.json into your Zed themes directory:
- macOS / Linux:
~/.config/zed/themes/ - Windows:
%AppData%\Zed\themes\
Zed hot-reloads themes from this directory.
Lineage
This Zed theme is the latest link in a long chain:
- Coda original — Joe Bergantine designed Birds of Paradise as a theme for Panic's Coda editor.
- TextMate port — Adapted to TextMate; the
.tmThemecarries Michael Sheets as author. Source: textmate/Birds-of-Paradise-for-TextMate. - VS Code wrapper —
geranere-bundled the.tmThemefor VS Code: gerane/VSCodeThemes/gerane.Theme-Birds_of_Paradise. This port used that wrapper as a reference for color choices, while the actual token mapping was rewritten against Zed's theme schema. - Zed port — This repository. Translates the original TextMate scope rules to Zed's canonical syntax tokens and authors the UI chrome (panels, tabs, terminal ANSI, player colors) from the source palette.
Palette
| Role | Color |
|---|---|
| background | #372725 |
| foreground | #E6E1C4 |
| selection | #A40042 |
| keyword | #EF5D32 |
| function | #EFAC32 |
| variable | #7DAF9C |
| string | #D9D762 |
| constant | #6C99BB |
| comment | #6B4E32 |
| regex | #8856D2 |
License
BSD-3-Clause. See LICENSE. Inherited from Joe Bergantine's original to preserve the upstream license terms.