High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro
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Sometimes I need a high contrast color scheme, and I think monokai is one of the best solutions, it's very beautiful and vivid.
However there is one thing I can't stand -- the contrast is too high, which is totally unacceptable for me.
This color scheme is based on Monokai Pro, the contrast is adjusted to be a bit lower while keeping the colors vivid enough.
The shusia, maia and espresso variants are basically modified versions of Monokai Pro. I'm not going to port all variants of Monokai Pro because I don't like some of them. In addition, I designed some new variants inspired by other color schemes.
See this wiki page.
See this post.
MIT ยฉ sainnhe
306 followers ยท starred Jul 2021
384 followers ยท starred May 2020
79 followers ยท starred May 2023
854 followers ยท starred Aug 2020
High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro
Vim Script
1,954
426 commits
updated Jan 21, 2026
Sometimes I need a high contrast color scheme, and I think monokai is one of the best solutions, it's very beautiful and vivid.
However there is one thing I can't stand -- the contrast is too high, which is totally unacceptable for me.
This color scheme is based on Monokai Pro, the contrast is adjusted to be a bit lower while keeping the colors vivid enough.
The shusia, maia and espresso variants are basically modified versions of Monokai Pro. I'm not going to port all variants of Monokai Pro because I don't like some of them. In addition, I designed some new variants inspired by other color schemes.
See this wiki page.
See this post.
MIT ยฉ sainnhe
306 followers ยท starred Jul 2021
384 followers ยท starred May 2020
79 followers ยท starred May 2023
854 followers ยท starred Aug 2020