Inspired by Tallinn's crisp light and Baltic calm, this theme pairs airy porcelain backgrounds with cool Nordic blues for a clean, focused coding experience. Soft, bright surfaces enhance readability, while deep ink accents and subtle lavender-rose highlights add clarity and warmth without losing its minimal Northern character.
A light theme from the Codigrate Cities collection, released 2026-01-08. Tags: Nordic, Icy, Cool.
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.
Tallinn color palette
Every named color of the Tallinn palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Tallinn on every platform
- Tallinn for JetBrains (free)
- Tallinn for Xcode ($2.99)
- Tallinn for VS Code (free)
- Tallinn for Chrome (free)
- Tallinn for Open VSX (free)
- Tallinn for Slack (free)
- Tallinn for MacOS Terminal (free)
- Tallinn for iTerm2 (free)
- Tallinn for Ghostty (free)
- Tallinn for Rhino (free)
- Tallinn for Zed (free), this page
- Tallinn for Sublime Text (free)
- Tallinn for Line
From the blog
- Anatomy of a Light Theme: Tallinn: Anatomy of Tallinn, a light IDE theme: Baltic morning blues, a midnight ink foreground, cobalt keywords, amethyst strings and the red brick of the Old Town.
