Inspired by the towering stillness of a sequoia grove, this theme blends deep forest black and bark brown with living green and moss accents to create a grounded and focused coding environment. Dark, earthy backgrounds settle the editor, while warm tans, rusts, and a clear canopy green add contrast and clarity to key syntax elements.
A dark theme from the Codigrate Nature collection, released 2023-09-10. Tags: Forest, Earthy, Calm.
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.
Sequoia color palette
Every named color of the Sequoia palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Sequoia on every platform
- Sequoia for JetBrains (free)
- Sequoia for Xcode ($2.99)
- Sequoia for VS Code (free)
- Sequoia for Chrome (free)
- Sequoia for Open VSX (free)
- Sequoia for Slack (free)
- Sequoia for MacOS Terminal (free)
- Sequoia for iTerm2 (free)
- Sequoia for Ghostty (free)
- Sequoia for Rhino (free)
- Sequoia for Zed (free), this page
- Sequoia for Sublime Text (free)
- Sequoia for Line
From the blog
- Anatomy of a Dark Theme: Sequoia: Anatomy of Sequoia, a dark IDE theme: a near black forest floor in olive charcoal, a soft grey foreground, and syntax in the earth tones of a redwood forest.
