This is the The Official Zenburn Page

Zenburn is a low-contrast color scheme for Vim. It's easy for your eyes and designed to keep you in the zone for long programming sessions.

Screenshot of Zenburn:

What's the purpose of this page?

The purpose is to collect links to various ports for different utilities and environments and, of course, show a screenshot!

Latest version and background information

Nowadays Zenburn lives at Github.

Notes

To use Zenburn in GVim, simply copy the file to colors/ subdirectory under your Vim configuration folder (e.g. \~/.vim/colors or C:\vim\colors).

To use Zenburn in Vim, you must enable the 256-color mode for Vim. This can be done with e.g. export TERM=xterm-256color. You might also need to add set t_Co=256 into your .vimrc file, before loading the colorscheme. Note, that due to limitations of the 256-color mode the color scheme is not exactly like it appears in GVim, but very close nevertheless.

Have a look at Darmawan's page for further information and screenshots.

Old, incomplete list of known ports and derivatives

Note: Some links are broken!

• Zenburn for KDE konsole by Christoffer Sawicki. See also below for Konsole 2.0.
• Daniel Brockman had a page with many adaptations (Link dead). Daniel's Emacs version still exists at Github.
• Zenburn scheme ported to Visual Studio 2005 by Jeff Atwood
• Jakub Piotr Cłapa Zenburnt his entire desktop!
• Zenburn ported to Notepad++ by Dominykas Djačenka.
• SubEthaEdit Zenburn by Henrik Bergius.
• "Dark Zenburn Global Style" for Stylish browser plugin.
• Zenburn for KDevelop/Kate by Lukasz "Lookanio" Purgal.
• Zenburn for KDE3 by Kevin Geiss.
• Putty colors by Steve T.
• Marc Kerbiquet uses Zenburn in his Code Browser software.
• Andrew Janke did a Zenburn-configuration file for Gnome Terminal. See also his comment below.
• Jonathan Bonomo made a color scheme for sterjm (project page). You can download the file here.
• Hisham made a Typo/CSS Zenburn theme.
• Juhapekka Tolvanen made a Zenburn config for ctheme.
• Zenburn for Konsole redux by Craig. It's for Konsole 2.0 (KDE4). Apologies to Craig since I had somehow overlooked his link from the old page.
• Zenburn Blogger template with syntax highlighting for code examples, by Elijahr.
• "Zenburn-like color scheme with terminus/proggyclean fonts for terminals and emacs." Cheers to Nick C for pointing it out.
• Windows cmd.exe port (also for Powershell) by Twinside.
• Adrian C has a whole bunch of Zenburn things, including a Zenburn theme for the Awesome WM - have a look at the simply excellent screenshots! You can read Adrian's journal entry too.
• Abchernin sent information about how to set up for EasyEclipse for Python 1.3.1.
• Gianfranco did Zenburn for SciTE v1.78.
• Gimp palette by an anonymous contributor. It was cool to see all the colours in one place.
• David Beckingsale made a Sandbox derived theme with Zenburn colors, called ZenSandBox.
• Pietra Arumaga has goodies for MacVim and Komodo users: "MacVim as IDE with Code Completion and Syntax Highlighting for Python, PyQt4 and Twisted Development on Mac OSX Snow Leopard" and Zenburn zip for Komodo Edit/IDE.
• Bozhidar Batsov did an Emacs port of Zenburn. Not a rewrite of Daniel Brockman's version. The zenburn-emacs is at Github. He also ported Zenburn to the Jekyll static site generator for Ruby, you can get the css for Jekyll here.
• Dale Anson brings Zenburn to the Lipstik look and feel, as well as a jEdit port.
• Alper Buluc did a Zenburn port to the PHP IDE PhpStorm. Zenburn for PhpStorm at Github.
• Benjamin Esham's Zenburn for Mac OS X built-in terminal link was dead for a time, but is available at Github, zenburn-terminal.

For more links, see the comments below. See also the contribs-branch of Zenburn at Github. If you have made a new port, please drop a comment.

Thank you for enjoying "Just some alien fruit salad to keep you in the zone"!