Monobrain Pro
A calm, focused dark theme for VS Code and its forks: a neutral monochrome workbench that stays out of your way, paired with refined, vivid syntax accents that make code structure obvious at a glance.
Features
- Calm neutral UI — the activity bar, side bar, tabs, status bar, and panels share a quiet near-black monochrome palette with translucent hairline borders, so the only thing that pops is your code.
- Refined vivid syntax — a disciplined eight-color accent set with a clear role for every hue: red keywords, yellow strings, blue functions, teal types, purple constants, orange parameters.
- Restrained typography — italics only where they carry meaning (comments, parameters, storage modifiers); bold reserved for markup headings. No keyword-soup italics.
- Full terminal ANSI theming — all 16 ANSI colors defined to match the editor palette, so CLI output looks native to the theme.
- Semantic highlighting — semantic token colors for language servers (TypeScript, Rust, Python, Go, …) that agree with the TextMate rules, so colors don't shift when a language server kicks in.
- No-gaps workbench map — 250+ workbench colors set explicitly: find/match highlights, bracket pair colorization, peek views, diff editor, notifications, quick input, minimap, and more.
Palette
| Role |
Color |
Swatch |
| Editor background |
#1e2024 |
 |
| Chrome background |
#17181b |
 |
| Foreground |
#c5c8cf |
 |
| Keywords |
#e8677d |
 |
| Parameters |
#e0a06a |
 |
| Strings |
#e3c778 |
 |
| Diff added / terminal green |
#8ec07c |
 |
| Functions |
#6cb6e6 |
 |
| Types & classes |
#5bc2a8 |
 |
| Constants & numbers |
#b995e8 |
 |
| UI accent |
#5b9fd6 |
 |
Screenshots
TypeScript / TSX
Python
Integrated terminal (full ANSI palette)
Reproducing these shots: ready-made sample files live in examples/ —
open examples/showcase.tsx,
examples/showcase.py, and run
examples/ansi-showcase.sh in the integrated terminal,
then capture each. See images/README.md for capture guidelines.
Installation
VS Code Marketplace
- Open the Extensions view (
Cmd+Shift+X / Ctrl+Shift+X).
- Search for Monobrain Pro.
- Click Install.
Or from the command line:
code --install-extension d4rkwinz.monobrain-pro
Open VSX (VSCodium and friends)
Monobrain Pro is also published to the Open VSX Registry:
codium --install-extension d4rkwinz.monobrain-pro
Antigravity and other VS Code forks (via .vsix)
Monobrain Pro works out of the box in Antigravity (Google's VS Code fork), Cursor, VSCodium, and any editor that supports standard VS Code themes:
- Download the
.vsix from the GitHub releases page (or build it with npm run package).
- Either drag the
.vsix file onto the Extensions view, or open the Extensions view menu (···) and choose Install from VSIX….
Select the theme
- Press
Cmd+K Cmd+T (macOS) or Ctrl+K Ctrl+T (Windows/Linux).
- Pick Monobrain Pro Dark.
Or via settings:
{
"workbench.colorTheme": "Monobrain Pro Dark"
}
Recommended settings
Entirely optional — the theme is designed to look right with defaults — but these pair nicely:
{
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
"editor.guides.bracketPairs": "active",
"editor.cursorBlinking": "smooth",
"workbench.tree.indent": 12,
"terminal.integrated.minimumContrastRatio": 1
}
Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the development setup and theming workflow.
License
MIT © 2026 d4rkwinz
