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Slatehollow

v3.1.0

Clean surfaces, five syntax colours. Enough to tell your code apart, not enough to distract. Ships with an OLED-tuned dark variant and a light variant — Slatehollow Light.

Updated 3 weeks ago
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zedext main
// Load settings, retrying a few times
fn load_config(path: &str) -> Result<Config, Error> {
    let retries = 3;
    let text = fs::read_to_string(path)?;
    let name = "settings.json";
    Ok(Config { text, retries, name })
}

Slatehollow

A theme family that gets out of the way. Three variants — one for each side of the day, plus one for OLED screens.

Slatehollow Dark

Clean surfaces, minimal yet subtle border lines, five syntax colours. Enough to tell your code apart, not enough to distract you from it.

Slatehollow Dark

Slatehollow Dark OLED

Same surfaces, same five colours — tuned for OLED panels. Wide-gamut displays and deep blacks make the original accents feel vivid, so this variant pulls accent saturation back by about a fifth and dims the body text a touch. Hues stay put, so every colour still means the same thing.

Reach for it when Slatehollow Dark looks oversaturated — typically wide-gamut OLED laptops on Windows without colour management. On colour-managed screens (macOS, or Windows with automatic colour management), the original Dark already renders as intended.

Slatehollow Dark OLED

Slatehollow Light

The light sibling. JetBrains Islands Light chrome, the same ink palette translated to a clean white editor with a whisper of cool in the panels.

Slatehollow Light

Philosophy

Borders (separator lines) only appear where colour can't do the job alone. Everything else relies on surface depth.

Syntax colours are intentional and minimal:

  • Blue — functions, constructors
  • Sage green — strings
  • Amber — constants, numbers
  • Purple — keywords
  • Dusty rose — properties (the "pay attention" colour, used sparingly)

Everything else — variables, punctuation, namespaces — fades into the background. Structural, not semantic.

Five colours is a constraint, not a limitation. When every token is a different colour, your brain stops using colour as signal. We'd rather you read the code.

Install

Open the Command Palette:

macOS

cmd + shift + p → extensions → search "Slatehollow"

Windows/Linux

ctrl + shift + p → extensions → search "Slatehollow"

Or search for Slatehollow in Zed's extension marketplace.

Configure your theme:

{
  "theme": {
    "mode": "dark",
    "dark": "Slatehollow Dark", // or "Slatehollow Dark OLED"
    "light": "Slatehollow Light"
  }
}

Made by Amsh

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