Creating the ideal coding environment in Sublime Text Back in 2006, I created the Monokai colors. Today I’m releasing , a new color scheme and user interface theme for Sublime Text. Monokai Pro Install it like this: Step 1. Package Control ‣ Install Package ‣ Theme — Monokai ProStep 2. Quick panel ‣ Monokai Pro: select theme Beautiful Functionality Almost every code editor has a Monokai preset. It has been recycled, remixed and implemented in more software products than I can count. The old Monokai has been going strong for more than a decade. The new Monokai Pro not only is an updated color palette, it’s a of Sublime Text. A color scheme for syntax highlighting in multiple languages and a user interface theme that doesn’t get in your way. It contains more than 50 custom made icons. complete visual overhaul The single goal of Monokai Pro is to help you focus. All design decisions were guided by the principle of Carefully selected shades of colors are the foundation of an uncompromising, non-distractive user interface. Beautiful Functionality. The single goal of Monokai Pro is to help you focus. Color harmony What makes Monokai are its vibrant accent colors. It’s key for good design that colors are balanced. This isn’t a very straightforward mathematical process. To achieve color harmony, you need to carefully handpick the best matching colors. Monokai The all new Monokai Pro accent colors If you look back at the old Monokai preset, you notice some accent colors “pop” more than others. The pink stands out because it’s vibrant, but the of that pink is actually less than the other colors. This difference, perhaps unconsciously, feels somewhat unbalanced. Monokai Pro solves this by better harmonizing its colors. perceived lightness The icons in Monokai Pro look as sharp as Dracula’s fangs Filetype icons help you to quickly scan through your code base. However, creating icons is not the same as slapping down a scaled down logo next to the filename. That leads to blurry icons, because the shapes don’t line up perfectly with a pixel grid. Pixel perfect icon creation process Blurred icons not only look frustratingly bad, they lead to unrecognizable graphics. They also make you squint and make you think you need glasses. The icons in Monokai Pro are made from scratch. Point-for-point perfect pixel pleasure. That’s 5 P’s. Color filters Monokai Pro comes with a set of five color filters that suit your mood. They’re all variations on the standard palette, and they’re all Monokai Pro. You can quickly switch between the filters, the sidebar icon colors will match as well. Monokai Pro has a couple of other design tricks up its sleave, like automatic sidebar font syncing, monochrome icons and a “minimal” setting. That’s for the pros, and you can read up on that on the site: . www.monokai.pro Try Monokai Pro for free, it’s €9,95 for a license that removes the pop-ups. Wimer Hazenberg is a creative director and programmer at digital design studio Booreiland . He also runs his own company called Monokai , a digital experiments lab.
