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).
colorscheme monokai-institute![]() |
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colorscheme monokai-institute-light![]() |
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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.
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-instituteFor best results:
set termguicolorsBoth themes also carry full 256-colour (cterm) definitions, so they degrade gracefully without truecolor.
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 = 1Colour 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
Apache 2.0, with lineage attribution at the bottom of the same file.



