alt Hacker NewsI hate to dismiss Zed for such a stupid reason, but I have tried to use Zed seriously many times and every time I stop because I can't get over the theme. I've tried basically every single theme I can find that is reasonably popular and they are all equally poor. VSCode and Cursor have vastly better default themes.
Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would love to use Zed more.
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I use "Melange Light". Feels simple and clean, if you like light themes at all.
You could just use the VSCode theme in Zed.
What's your favorite theme, maybe we can point you to something close? If you have any special needs or usability issues (colorblindness is common), that's probably relevant too.
I use the default theme + the Catppuccin Icon Theme : https://github.com/catppuccin/zed-icons
Does it really not let you change the colors? Am very unhappy at the modern trend to allow only canned themes.