About
Monokai for Emacs is a port of the popular TextMate theme Monokai by Wimer Hazenberg.
The inspiration for the theme came from Bozhidar Batsov and his Zenburn port and Sublime Text 2 which defaults to this color scheme.
I like the colors and I like Emacs. This followed.
The theme uses built-in theming support available Emacs 24 and later.
I recommend using Prelude in conjunction with this theme.
Bozhidar Batsov has done some awesome work in making Emacs beautiful and accessible to a newcomer.
I've been using the theme with spacemacs and have really enjoyed it.
How it looks
Installation
Manual
Download monokai-theme.el to the directory ~/.emacs.d/themes/. Add this to your .emacs:
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes/")
Now you can load the theme with: M-x load-theme RET monokai
With package.el
Monokai is available in both Marmalade
and MELPA.
Keep in mind the fact the version in the Marmalade repo may not always be up-to-date.
You can install monokai with: M-x package-install monokai-theme
To load it automatically on Emacs startup add this to your init file:
(load-theme 'monokai t)
With spacemacs
Add the theme to dotspacemacs-themes in your .spacemacs file:
(defun dotspacemacs/init ()
(setq-default
dotspacemacs-themes '(monokai)))
Customization
Please see full list of variables in the defcustom section.
You can override specific core colors using this in your init.el or equivalent file:
(setq ;; foreground and background
monokai-foreground "#ABB2BF"
monokai-background "#282C34"
;; highlights and comments
monokai-comments "#F8F8F0"
monokai-emphasis "#282C34"
monokai-highlight "#FFB269"
monokai-highlight-alt "#66D9EF"
monokai-highlight-line "#1B1D1E"
monokai-line-number "#F8F8F0"
;; colours
monokai-blue "#61AFEF"
monokai-cyan "#56B6C2"
monokai-green "#98C379"
monokai-gray "#3E4451"
monokai-violet "#C678DD"
monokai-red "#E06C75"
monokai-orange "#D19A66"
monokai-yellow "#E5C07B")
org-mode headers
If you would like to change the font size of your org-mode headers you can do so with:
(setq monokai-height-minus-1 0.8
monokai-height-plus-1 1.1
monokai-height-plus-2 1.15
monokai-height-plus-3 1.2
monokai-height-plus-4 1.3)
Variable pitch
If you would like to use variable-pitch-mode you can enable it with:
(setq monokai-user-variable-pitch t)
This used to be enabled by default but broke the principle of least surprise which resulted in a couple of issues.
See #62 & #56
Windows
If your're experiencing font issues using org-mode on Windows with emacs 25 try add this to
your init.el or equivalent file:
(add-hook 'after-init-hook '(lambda () (load-theme 'monokai t)))
(when (and sys/win32p (> emacs-major-version 24))
(add-hook 'window-setup-hook '(lambda () (load-theme 'monokai t))))
For more info check the thread in #56
Bugs & Improvements
Please, report any problems that you find on the projects integrated
issue tracker. If you've added some improvements and you want them
included upstream please send a pull request.
Thank you,
Kelvin