Black Frieza

A balanced dark theme — neither too light nor too dark, built to work day and night.

Saturated syntax highlighting, a terminal that matches the sidebar instead of pitch black, and matte accents — khaki for new files, a single violet for everything interactive.

Variants

Select with cmd-k cmd-t after installing.

Black Frieza

Black Frieza Darker

Palette

Both variants share the same syntax palette:

Design principles: the terminal background always matches the panels (no black hole at the bottom of your editor), explorer text is white so git states are readable at a glance, and nothing is neon — bright colors are reserved for code.

Also available

• Zed: github.com/dylandifilippo/black-frieza
• Cursor / Windsurf / VSCodium: via Open VSX

Credits

Inspired by New Darcula by Evan Simpson (MIT), with saturation and contrast cues from Colorizer and Vercel Theme — and JetBrains Darcula, the ancestor of it all.

MIT licensed.