A vivid, One Dark Pro-inspired dark theme for Zed, set on a deep violet-indigo background. Built for developers who want punchy syntax highlighting against a calm, low-glare surface — with a coordinated 16-color ANSI palette so the integrated terminal matches the editor.
Appearance: Dark · Schema: Zed themes v0.2.0
- Deep violet-indigo background
#15131f, with two coordinated shades for depth:#0d0b17for sidebars, panels, and popovers (editor −8 per channel) and#1d1b27for the active line and hover lifts (editor +8 per channel). - Vivid syntax — recognizable One Dark Pro hue assignments with the saturation pushed for a dark surface: purple keywords, electric-blue functions, green strings, yellow types, cyan properties and operators, orange constants.
- Italics on comments,
comment.doc,variable.special,predictive, andlink_text— the One Dark Pro convention. - Coordinated terminal — a vivid neon 16-color ANSI palette keeps the in-editor terminal visually consistent with the theme.
- Accent — vivid blue
#57B9FFfor focused borders, links, selectors, and active tab indicators.
Open the command palette → zed: extensions, search Veda Pro, and
click Install. Then switch to it via zed: open theme selector →
Veda Pro.
From a clone of this repo:
zed --install-dev-extension .Then switch to it via zed: open theme selector → Veda Pro.
| Surface | Role | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Editor background | base surface | #15131f |
| Panel / sidebar / popover | editor −8 per channel | #0d0b17 |
| Active line / hover lift | editor +8 per channel | #1d1b27 |
| Foreground | default text | #ededfe |
| Selection | text selection | #202036 |
| Cursor | muted off-white | #c9c9d8 |
| Accent | focus, links, selectors | #57B9FF |
| Terminal background | terminal surface | #0f0f1a |
| Terminal ANSI 0–15 | vivid neon ANSI palette | — |
| Tokens | Color | Hex |
|---|---|---|
Keywords, this/self, regex, special strings |
purple | #D362FF |
| Functions | electric blue | #00BFFF |
| Strings, added / diff-plus | green | #7EE787 |
| Types, enums, namespaces, constructors | yellow | #F8DC7E |
| Constants, numbers, booleans, attributes | orange | #FFB454 |
| Properties, operators, escapes | cyan | #56DCE4 |
| Tags, emphasis, removed / diff-minus | red | #FF5C6C |
| Links, titles, list markers, selectors | accent blue | #57B9FF |
| Comments (italic) | gray | #5C6370 |
| Variables, punctuation | foreground | #ededfe |
References:
- One Dark (Zed): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/assets/themes/one/one.json
- Zed theme schema v0.2.0: https://zed.dev/schema/themes/v0.2.0.json
Veda Pro is generated. Every color in themes/veda-pro.json originates in
palette.json — never edit the generated theme file by hand. A small Go
program reads palette.json, transforms it into the Zed schema shape, and
validates the output against the v0.2.0 schema before writing it.
make test # run the test suite (builder + schema + integration)
make build # regenerate themes/veda-pro.json from palette.json
make # bothTo change a color: edit palette.json, then run make. The build fails if the
result doesn't validate against the Zed schema, so a green build is a passing
validation.
veda-pro-zed/
├── extension.toml # Zed extension manifest
├── palette.json # semantic source of truth (edit this)
├── themes/veda-pro.json # generated artifact (do not edit)
├── preview.png # screenshot used in this README
├── cmd/build/ # Go program: palette → theme + validate
├── internal/builder/ # palette → ThemeFamily transformer
├── internal/schema/ # vendored v0.2.0 schema + validator
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
└── Makefile
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