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Zarcula

v0.1.2

Darcula’s sophisticated cousin, custom-built for Zed.

Updated 7 months 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 })
}

Zarcula for Zed

Zarcula is a dark theme for the Zed editor inspired by JetBrains Darcula – but tuned specifically for Zed’s UI, terminal, and collaborative editing experience.

Zarcula: Darcula’s sophisticated cousin, custom-built for Zed.

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Features

Darcula’s sophisticated cousin, custom-built for Zed.

  • Carefully matched backgrounds and borders for

    • Editor and gutter
    • Panels and toolbars
    • Tabs, status bar, and title bar

  • Readable syntax colors

    • Keywords & booleans: #CC7832 (warm orange)
    • Strings & labels: #6A8759 (muted green)
    • Numbers & numeric-like values: #6897BB (blue)
    • Functions: #FFC66D (soft yellow)
    • Types & selectors: #8888C6 (violet)
    • Comments: #808080 (neutral gray)
    • Doc comments: #6A8759 (green, to stand out from regular comments)

  • Integrated terminal styling

    • Dedicated ANSI palette matching the editor colors
    • Tuned normal, bright, and dim colors for long shell sessions

  • Rich diagnostics colors

    • Error / warning / info / hint / success
    • created / modified / deleted / renamed

Installation

You can install Zarcula directly from within Zed:

  1. Open Zed.
  2. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and enter zed: extensions.
  3. Search for "Zarcula" or zed-zarcula-theme extension and install.
  4. Click Install.

Or, if you’re using this repository locally during development:

  1. Clone the repo:
    git clone https://github.com/igorgoroun/zed-zarcula-theme.git
  2. Open the folder in Zed.
  3. Zed will detect the extension manifest (extension.toml) and offer to load the theme.

Activation

Once installed:

  1. Open Settings → Appearance → Theme.
  2. Choose Zarcula – Dark from the theme list.

You can also use the command palette:

  1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P.
  2. Run “Change Theme”.
  3. Select Zarcula (Dark).

Contributing

Feedback and contributions are welcome:

  1. Fork the repo.
  2. Make your changes to themes/zed-zarcula-theme.json.
  3. Open a pull request on GitHub

License

See the LICENSE file in this repository for details.

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