Old Book

Oldbook theme

A colorscheme inspired by the feel of aged books. Minimal, soft, and readable. Now with a dark mode for VS Code!

VS Code / Cursor / Antigravity

This theme is fully compatible with VS Code, Cursor, and Antigravity.

Light

Dark

VIM / NVIM

ZED

Installation

VIM / NVIM

You can install this theme using your favorite Vim plugin manager.

Vim-plug

Plug 'gko/oldbook-theme'

Manual Installation

1. Create the colors directory if it doesn't exist:
   • Vim: mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
   • Neovim: mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/colors
2. Copy colors/oldbook.vim into that directory.

Usage

To use the colorscheme, add the following line to your vimrc or init.vim:

set background=light

colorscheme oldbook

ZED

From extensions

1. Open Zed.
2. Open the command palette (Cmd+Shift+P) and enter zed: extensions.
3. Search for the Old book extension and install.
4. Enter theme selector: toggle in the command palette and select the Old book theme in the dropdown.

Manually

1. Download oldbook-color-theme.json
2. Put into ~/.config/zed/themes/

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Thanks to @kmartin91 for the initial implementation of the dark mode.