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Palette Masters: 46 Zed themes derived from master painter color palettes
- regnull 4mo agoI was looking at Palette Inspiration (https://paletteinspiration.com/ 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.