I was looking at Palette Inspiration (
https://paletteinspiration.com/), featured on HN a few days ago. It has master palettes for 3,000+ painters — statistical color analyses across each artist's entire body of work.
So I had this idea: what if those palettes became code editor themes? I built 46 Zed themes (dark + light) from the color data of 23 master painters.
Each theme uses the artist's actual palette colors for syntax highlighting, UI chrome, and terminal colors. The dark themes use the palette's darkest tones as backgrounds; the light themes blend the lightest palette color toward white, so every artist has a distinctly tinted background.
The artists:
Monet — Water Lilies
Van Gogh — Starry Night
Matisse — The Dance
Renoir — Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pissarro — Boulevard Montmartre
Roerich — Himalayas
Sargent — Madame X
Aivazovsky — The Ninth Wave
Cezanne — Mont Sainte-Victoire
Degas — The Ballet Class
Da Vinci — Mona Lisa
Rembrandt — The Night Watch
Picasso — Guernica
Vermeer — Girl with a Pearl Earring
Turner — The Fighting Temeraire
Klimt — The Kiss
Kandinsky — Composition VIII
Gauguin — Where Do We Come From?
Caravaggio — Judith Beheading Holofernes
Raphael — The School of Athens
Munch — The Scream
Velazquez — Las Meninas
Hokusai — The Great Wave
Install:
git clone https://github.com/regnull/palette-masters-zed.git
cd palette-masters-zed
make install
MIT licensed. Contributions welcome.
