Cursor Themes for Zed

Cursor's theme family for Zed, including Cursor Dark, Cursor Dark Midnight, Cursor Dark High Contrast, and Cursor Light.

The themes are converted from the original VS Code sources and aim to preserve the Cursor look across editor UI colors, syntax highlighting, and terminal colors inside Zed.

Usage

1. Open Zed.
2. Open the command palette and run zed: install dev extension.
3. Select this repository root.
4. Open the command palette and run theme selector: toggle.
5. Choose one of the Cursor themes.

If theme changes do not appear immediately, run zed: reload extensions. A full workspace reload may also help.

Previews

Cursor Dark	Cursor Dark Midnight

Cursor Dark High Contrast	Cursor Light

Development

This repository is managed with Bun and generates Zed theme files from the original VS Code theme JSON sources.

bun install
bun run build

Generated files are written to themes/, and the original VS Code sources are kept in vscode-themes/.

Project Layout

extension.toml              # Zed extension manifest
package.json                # Bun scripts and local project metadata
scripts/convert-vscode-to-zed.mjs
themes/*.json               # Generated Zed theme files
vscode-themes/*.json        # Original VS Code theme sources

The converter follows Zed's official VS Code importer mapping for:

• UI color slots
• syntax token scope matching
• font style and bold/italic conversion

Notes

• Zed themes use themes/*.json plus extension.toml; package.json is only used for local Bun scripts.
• Zed does not have a separate high-contrast appearance type, so Cursor Dark High Contrast is exported as a dark theme.
• This repository currently targets local development as a Zed dev extension.