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Sonokai

High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro

From sainnheยทUpdated June 18, 2026ยทView on GitHubยท

Sometimes I need a high contrast color scheme, and I think monokai is one of the best solutions, it's very beautiful and vivid. The project is written primarily in Vim Script, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2020. It has gained significant community traction with 1,951 stars and 122 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: airline, lightline, monokai, theme, vim.

<h2 align="center"> ๐ƒ๐ž๐Ÿ๐š๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ </h2>

sonokai-default
default

<h2 align="center"> ๐€๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ </h2>

sonokai-atlantis
atlantis

<h2 align="center"> ๐€๐ง๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐š </h2>

sonokai-andromeda
andromeda

<h2 align="center"> ๐’๐ก๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐š </h2>

sonokai-shusia
shusia

<h2 align="center"> ๐Œ๐š๐ข๐š </h2>

sonokai-maia
maia

<h2 align="center"> ๐„๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ </h2>

sonokai-espresso
espresso

Sometimes I need a high contrast color scheme, and I think monokai is one of the best solutions, it's very beautiful and vivid.

However there is one thing I can't stand -- the contrast is too high, which is totally unacceptable for me.

This color scheme is based on Monokai Pro, the contrast is adjusted to be a bit lower while keeping the colors vivid enough.

The shusia, maia and espresso variants are basically modified versions of Monokai Pro. I'm not going to port all variants of Monokai Pro because I don't like some of them. In addition, I designed some new variants inspired by other color schemes.

Features

  • High contrast but within acceptable range.
  • Vivid colors.
  • Highly customizable.
  • Rich support for common file types and plugins.
  • Tree-sitter support.
  • Semantic highlighting support.
  • Italic support ๐ŸŽ‰

Documentation

See :help sonokai.txt

See this wiki page.

Contributing

See this post.

More Color Schemes

Inspirations

Maintainers

Sainnhe ParkAntoine Cotten
Sainnhe ParkAntoine Cotten

License

MIT ยฉ sainnhe

Contributors

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