The AX‑Monokai project defines a unified color scheme inspired by various Monokai, Molokai, and related theme variants.

All colors are specified in a single configuration file (AX-Monokai.conf). Based on this file, the project provides a Makefile that can automatically generate configuration files for a wide range of applications, including terminal emulators, text editors, web browsers, and more.

• CSV (out/ax-monokai.csv)
• Ghostty (out/ghostty.conf)
• Kitty (out/kitty.conf)
• POSIX Shell (out/ax-monokai.inc.sh)
• Vivaldi (out/vivaldi.zip)
• VS Code (out/ax-monokai-<version>.vsix, out/vscode-color-theme.json)
• VS Code terminal (out/vscode-terminal.json)

The following 16 colors are used for the standard ANSI palette, 8 regular/dark colors, and 8 bright variants:

The following 16 grayscale levels are defined:

These colors are derived from other projects and used in some themes:

1. All core definitions of the AX-Monokai theme are stored in a somewhat generic format in the AX-Monokai.conf file.
2. A Makefile for the make command is used to generate all theme files in the out/ directory.
3. You manually install the themes or theme snippets from the out/ directory into your local configuration files and folders as you like.

Therefore you have to:

1. Get the code :-)
2. Run make
3. Find the generated files from the out/ directory
4. Copy the ones you need into your local configuration.

More detailed notes for some targets are outlined below.

The theme extension is available in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

This section describes how you can build it yourself.

Prerequisites:

• VS Code Extension Manager

npm install -g @vscode/vsce

Build and package the extension, it will be stored in the out/ directory:

# Update the version number in "package.json" as needed. Then:
make check vscode

Install the VS Code extension locally on your machine:

code --install-extension out/ax-monokai-${version}.vsix