Monokai Deuteranopia Colorblind

Deep Space Theme with Animated Stars - Designed for Deuteranopia Accessibility

A Monokai-inspired, high-contrast dark theme designed for developers with deuteranopia (red-green colorblindness). Features an optional animated deep space background with floating stars.

This is for you.

Download it for free at Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipezarco.monokai-deuteranopia-colorblind

About Deuteranopia and this theme

Deuteranopia is a type of red-green color vision deficiency where green cones are absent, making it difficult to distinguish red from green. This theme completely avoids the red-green axis, relying instead on the blue-yellow color axis which deuteranopia users perceive clearly:

• Sky Blue (#56B4E9) - Types, classes, tags, storage types, and language keywords — the primary accent, always visible and vibrant.
• Amber Gold (#E6C07B) - Strings and property values — warm and distinct from blue.
• Violet (#B28BFF) - Control keywords, logical operators, and modifiers — stands apart from both blue and yellow.
• Soft Purple (#D4A0FF) - Numbers, constants, and escape characters — a lighter complement to violet.
• Rose (#CC79A7) - Decorators, generics, and regex — a unique hue far from the red-green confusion zone.
• Yellow-Green (#DCDCAA) - Function names and tag attributes — balanced and easy to spot.
• Deep Navy (#0B1026) - Background — a rich dark base with optional animated stars.

No reds. No greens. Every color is chosen so you never have to guess.

I've created it so that it has:

• Coverage of all possible syntax highlights.
• Clear visibility of keywords.
• Violet representation of numbers and logical operators for high contrast.
• Easily identifiable and distinguishable parameters (warm amber).
• Thicker formatting for double-quoted strings and template strings (distinguishes string interpolation).
• White-blue as the default color, making it easy to spot when a variable turns into a keyword (turns other than white).
• An optional animated deep space background with floating stars.

Languages:

1. TypeScript
2. Javascript
3. Python
4. Java
5. C#
6. PHP
7. HTML
8. CSS
9. Ruby
10. Swift
11. Go
12. Kotlin
13. Rust
14. C++

If you enjoy using this theme, don't forget to give it a star on https://github.com/felipezarco/monokai-deuteranopia-colorblind!

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About the Author

Luiz Felipe Zarco (fezarco@yahoo.com)