Inspired by the icy terraces of Mount Everest and the first light breaking over its peaks, this theme pairs cool white and pale grey backgrounds with deep glacier blues and greens to create a clear and unhurried coding environment. Bright, airy surfaces keep the editor calm, while teals, forest greens, and a warm coral accent add definition and focus to key syntax elements.
A light theme from the Codigrate Nature collection, released 2023-09-02. Tags: Calm, Icy, Sunrise.
A free download from codigrate.com under the MIT licence: add it to your cart, enter the e-mail address the download link goes to, and get the theme file with its install steps.
Getting started on Zed
- Download the zip with the Download button. Inside is one folder with the theme file ( themes/<name>.json ) and a small extension.toml.
- Copy the .json file from the themes folder into ~/.config/zed/themes/ ( the same path on macOS and Linux; on a Mac, Shift+Cmd+G in Finder takes you to the path ). If the folder is not there yet, create it.
- In Zed, open the theme selector with Cmd+K Cmd+T ( Ctrl+K Ctrl+T on Linux ) and pick the theme by name, and the theme is applied.
- Prefer an extension? In Zed open Extensions, click Install Dev Extension and choose the unzipped folder itself; the theme then shows in the selector the same way.
Everest color palette
Every named color of the Everest palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Everest on every platform
- Everest for JetBrains (free)
- Everest for Xcode ($2.99)
- Everest for VS Code (free)
- Everest for Chrome (free)
- Everest for Open VSX (free)
- Everest for Slack (free)
- Everest for MacOS Terminal (free)
- Everest for iTerm2 (free)
- Everest for Ghostty (free)
- Everest for Rhino (free)
- Everest for Zed (free), this page
- Everest for Sublime Text (free)
- Everest for Line
From the blog
- Anatomy of a Light Theme: Everest: Anatomy of Everest, a light IDE theme: layered blue-grey backgrounds, a calm navy foreground, and a cool syntax palette lit by a few warm sparks of dawn.
- Dark Mode and Light Mode: What Your Eyes Actually Want: Neither mode is easier on your eyes by default. What dark and light mode do to your pupils, why good dark themes skip pure black, and how to pick by room light.
