sainnhe/sonokai

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High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro

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What you can do

High contrast but within acceptable range.
Highly customizable.
Rich support for common file types and plugins.
Tree-sitter support.

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Original

𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭

sonokai-default default

𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬

sonokai-atlantis

𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐚

sonokai-andromeda

𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚

sonokai-shusia shusia

𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐚

sonokai-maia maia

𝐄𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨

sonokai-espresso

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.

Features

High contrast but within acceptable range.
Vivid colors.
Highly customizable.
Rich support for common file types and plugins.
Tree-sitter support.
Semantic highlighting support.
Italic support 🎉

Documentation

See :help sonokai.txt

Related Projects

See this wiki page.

Contributing

See this post.

More Color Schemes

Inspirations

Maintainers


Sainnhe Park	Antoine Cotten

License

MIT © sainnhe