Monochromator

Distraction-free monochrome coding theme for Visual Studio Code

A minimalist color theme that reduces visual distractions for better focus while coding. The extension includes two main variants: Dark and Light. Each variant comes with several additional accent color options: Ruby, Amber, Sulfur, Emerald, Aquamarine, Amethyst, Plain.

Font: Recursive Mono

Installation

To ensure 100% correct behaviour, it is recommended to add the following to your settings.json:

{
  // This ensures that string interpolation delimiters look right
  "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": false,

  // This ensures that variables do not look similar to comments
  "editor.showUnused": false
}

Download

The extension can be downloaded from Open VSX, the Visual Studio Marketplace, the Actions tab or directly in VSCodium or VS Code.

Building From Source

git clone https://codeberg.org/beem/monochromator.git
cd monochromator
npm install
npx vsce package

Contributing

As there are many programming and markup languages (each with a lot of different extensions) out there, it's practically impossible to verify how the highlighting works for each one of them. If you spot something that looks off with the syntax highlighting while using this theme, I'd really appreciate your help :-)

You can help by opening an issue. When you do, please include:

• Which language you were using (and extension if there's no built-in language support)
• What looks wrong to you
• A screenshot if you can
• How (and why) you think it should look instead

License

Copyright © 2025 Josias Beem

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.