monokai-institute.nvim

A Vim/Neovim colorscheme in the visual language of The Institute for Ethical AI: the signature teal green #5ee6a0 on pitch black for the dark theme, and a warm sage paper with muted accents for the light theme.

Full truecolor (termguicolors) and 256-colour terminal support, optional transparent background, and highlights tuned for the modern plugin ecosystem (treesitter, LSP semantic tokens, always-on sign column, completion popups).

Dark

colorscheme monokai-institute

Light

colorscheme monokai-institute-light

The signature moves: constants (True/False/None, numbers) in bold italic green, echoing the site's italic serif accent; search and matched parens flash the bright green; the light theme keeps contrast deliberately gentle, with the bright green reserved for search highlights only.

Install

With lazy.nvim:

{
  "EthicalML/monokai-institute.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("monokai-institute")  -- or "monokai-institute-light"
  end,
}

With vim-plug:

Plug 'EthicalML/monokai-institute.nvim'
colorscheme monokai-institute

For best results:

set termguicolors

Both themes also carry full 256-colour (cterm) definitions, so they degrade gracefully without truecolor.

Options

Set before loading the colorscheme:

" Transparent background: inherit the terminal background (and its
" transparency/blur) instead of the default pitch black (dark theme)
let g:monokai_institute_transparent = 1

Credits

Colour direction from The Institute for Ethical AI.

Standing on the shoulders of the Monokai family:

• molokai by Tomas Restrepo — the base of the dark theme's structure
• The original Monokai theme for TextMate by Wimer Hazenberg, and its darker variant by Hamish Stuart Macpherson
• The wider Monokai ecosystem that kept the palette alive across editors, including vim-monokai, monokai.nvim, monokai-pro.nvim, and sonokai

License

Apache 2.0, with lineage attribution at the bottom of the same file.