sepulcky

I often work at night or in dark rooms, where eyes quickly become tired if working with light interface colors. Unfortunately, every dark color scheme bundled with Max feels uncompleted and/or looks ugly. For example, Noir theme matches my needs very closely, but it is too dark for my personal taste and doesn't style many UI common objects (multislider, spectroscope~, live.* objects, etc.).

To not reinvent the wheel, I decided to port a Monokai color scheme on Max. I themed everything in the Object Defaults window, including Max4Live and Jamoma objects. Just watch at the screenshot to see how awesome Max/MSP looks with Monokai color theme:

To use it, unpack the archive to the packages folder, restart Max and choose MaxMonokai theme from the Object Defaults menu.


monokai-color-theme-for-max

I like this. I've always liked the charcoal/orange thing. One thing I'm not sure about is the text colour, though. It's green, and then while you're filling it out it looks like this: 

basically dark grey, with black text and a dark blue over it ;)

Is there a quick way to make all the text, say, light grey? I'd dig that, I think.

I like this. I've always liked the charcoal/orange thing. One thing I'm not sure about is the text colour, though.  It's green, and then while you're filling it out it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/nOJV1II.png

Is there a quick way to make all the text, say, light grey? I'd dig that, I think.


Sure, just go to the “Options > Object Deafults...”, click the “All” tab, find the “newobj” section and change “Text Color” parameter. To conform the color scheme I suggest you to start from (117 113 94) color and change the brightness of the color.

thanks a bunch! I really love the earthy dark look.

yeah, it's made my rig much sexier to use, hehe.

I've changed the lime text to white now, it's so crisp, yet not that giant sheet of white screen we used to work on.

yeah, it's made my rig much sexier to use, hehe. 

Monokai color theme for Max