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fix(ui): soften secondary borders - #127
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I believe you should update zed.tera instead. Both json files are generated from that template. |
border.variant color token across all themes|
Updated the PR branch so the fix lives in This differs quite a bit from the bright accent-colored border appearance in the VS Code Catppuccin comparison. That difference is intentional: Zed uses Verified the generated files with Whiskers, checked all 112 theme variants, and visually checked extension-card borders in all four flavors plus the blue accent in Zed 1.18.1. The toolbar divider is also subdued after rebuilding the dev extension. |
Hey all, I'm one of Zed's designers and Catpuccin is our most downloaded theme ever, and the second most downloaded extension; awesome work all around. However, there has been an ongoing problem with it and that's the
border.varianttoken. It just looks way too bright in all theme variants when it's actually supposed to be a less emphasized border color than its siblingborder. I've had many user reports thinking that was a bug due to how certain elements end up emphasized, so I thought I'd open this PR to fix it. I used the same colors in both the "mauve" and "no italics" variants, too.Here's a preview — you can see mainly how the border below the toolbar looks properly darker and de-emphasized:
The actual colors were achieved by tweaking the lightness and saturation of the previous colors, maintaining the hue.