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.