Add this to fix the contrast in all your dark themes:

  "experimental.theme_overrides": {
    "background": "#111",
    "panel.background": "#111",
    "text": "#eee",
    "text.muted": "#ccc",
    "title_bar.background": "#111",
    "tab_bar.background": "#111",
    "toolbar.background": "#111",
    "status_bar.background": "#111",
    "element.selected": "#333",
    "editor.background": "#000",
    "editor.gutter.background": "#000"
  }

It's not just you and it's not just Zed. Dark themes tend to be low contrast gray on gray.

I usually look for a dark theme that looks good and then make a custom version with darker the background colors and brighter the foreground colors.

Maybe it's time for to start publishing high contrast dark themes instead of just fixing it for myself.

That's what I did: https://github.com/tuzemec/zedokai-darkest-machine

I like it! Thanks

I do a lot of markdown editing, techdocs, static site generator, and the gray on gray makes me want to swap back to VSCodium for that task.

It should take less than a minute to install a nice, high contrast dark theme, if you just search for the theme inside the Extensions window in Zed.

But I understand your point, no reason for it not to come with a couple good high contrast dark themes.

It may feel even more shallow, but what keeps me on emacs are modus-themes. With luck, you can find a passable theme in your editor/ide of choice, but to find a good, high-contrast light theme is almost impossible.

Try this one, it’s my recent favourite and very polished: https://zed.dev/extensions/amp-theme

The repo for this theme is no longer available

> The page you are trying to reach either does not exist, has been removed or you are not authorized to view it.

Yeah unfortunately looks like the maintainer made their stuff private, but it still works, I may republish it if gets removed from the store it’s so good.

The repository link on that page does not work. Is there a preview?

You can see it on vscode themes https://vscodethemes.com/e/hrose.amp-theme/amp-dark

can one match themes between two editors given zed uses treesitter?

Zed generally feels very engineer-designed and not in a good way.