Monokai Dark Crisp

Monokai Dark Crisp is a high-contrast Monokai dark theme for Visual Studio Code.

Files

themes/monokai-dark-crisp-color-theme.json: the theme file loaded by VS Code.

theme-source/monokai-dark-crisp-color-name-map.json: reusable color names, such as surface.gray02, border.normal, and shell.statusBar.

theme-source/monokai-dark-crisp-theme-key-name-map.json: maps VS Code theme keys to color name paths.

scripts/generate-theme.py: reads the token source and mapping file, resolves token paths to color values, and updates the generated sections in themes/monokai-dark-crisp-color-theme.json.

package.json: the VS Code extension manifest and python script definitions.

Example mapping:

{
  "editor.background": "surface.gray02",
  "statusBar.background": "shell.statusBar"
}

Generate the Theme

Install the Python dependency once:

python -m pip install json5

Run:

python scripts/generate-theme.py

Run this after editing the color name map or theme key name map.

Modify the Theme

To update a shared color value, edit theme-source/monokai-dark-crisp-color-name-map.json.

To change which color name is used by a VS Code theme key, edit theme-source/monokai-dark-crisp-theme-key-name-map.json.

To maintain a color outside the generated mapping, edit themes/monokai-dark-crisp-color-theme.json directly.