Tlapalli — ZedExt

Tlapalli Zed Theme

tlah-PAH-lee in Nahuatl means color

Zed Extensions

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A collection of monochromatic dark and light themes in different hues. Each theme uses lightness and font styles (actually, just italic) to distinguish tokens, rather than relying on multiple colors to do the job.

Dark themes are especially useful (to me) when working in a low light environment. The idea is not to have excessive contrast on the text, but also be able to have a darker background.

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Dark

00: Obsidian

The original idea was to create this theme only, which was based on the VSCode Monochrome theme. Though many tweaks have been applied to get it just the way I like them. obsidian

01: Gold

A kind-of-yellow sort-of-amber like the one I used to work with when I started with computers. Not quite as bright IMO, so gold it is. gold

02: Turquoise

This was the first one I worked on as a variant for Obsidian. I really like having this in the options and will be using it quite often. turquoise

03: Quartz

I am not a huge fan of pink for the theme, but I was already on a roll trying with the different variants, so why not having it as well? quartz

04: Lapis Lazuli

Not as bright as a sapphire blue, but still nice on my eyes. lapis lazulli

05: Amethyst

Maybe the 3rd or 4th variant I worked on. Lots of purple themes out there, but a monochromatic one? amethyst

06: Jade

This is a greener hue, closer to those early monitors I aluded to when describing the gold variant. I really like how it looks! jade

07:Fire Opal

This is a tricky one. I am not sure anyone would NOT be thinking "this is screaming errors at me all the time", but I decided to give it a shot. ERRORs are white in this variant, BTW. fire opal

Light

I thought having a light version for the different variants would be nice, so I spent some time creating those as well.

They are essentially the "inverse" of the dark themes, with a few manual changes I will be making before releasing a "stable" theme.

l-00: Obsidian Light

l-01: Gold Light

l-02: Turquoise Light

l-03: Quartz Light

l-04: Lapis Lazuli Light

l-05: Amethyst Light

l-06: Jade Light

l-07: Fire Opal Light

The technical stuff

This repo: the packaging and release tooling for the Tlapalli Zed extension. Theme colors are maintained upstream in tlapalli-vscode-theme.

Structure

extension/          ← The actual extension (published to Zed marketplace)
  extension.toml    ─ extension manifest
  themes/           ─ theme JSON files
  LICENSE.md        ─ MIT license
  README.md         ─ theme documentation
package.json        ─ dev tooling (commit-and-tag-version, cz, husky)
.github/            ─ GitHub Actions (auto PR on tag push)

Development

npm run cz          # Interactive conventional commit
npm run tag         # Bump version + CHANGELOG + git tag
npm run publish     # git push --follow-tags

Pushing a v* tag triggers a GitHub Action that auto-creates a PR to zed-industries/extensions.

License

MIT — see extension/LICENSE.md.