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  • regnull 14 hours ago ago

    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.