A minimalist and visually appealing VS Code theme that lets you set both the color theme and file/folder icons.
Monkey Icons gives your workspace a clean, consistent look with custom icons for hundreds of file types and folder names.
Supported areas include:
- Languages & runtimes: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Go, Rust, Python, C/C++, C#, Java, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Dart, Lua, and more
- Config & tooling:
package.json,go.mod/go.sum,tsconfig.json, Gradle, Maven, Prisma, Docker - Web & data: HTML, CSS/SCSS, JSON, YAML, TOML, SQL, XML
- Specialized: Solidity (
.sol), Protobuf (.proto), Markdown, LaTeX, shell scripts - Media: Images, audio, video, documents, spreadsheets
- Folders: Common names like
src,dist,components,config,assets, and many more
- Open VS Code.
- Go to Extensions (
Ctrl+Shift+X/Cmd+Shift+X). - Search for Monkey Theme.
- Click Install.
Or install from the command line:
code --install-extension YoichiKojima.monkey-theme- Open the Command Palette (
Ctrl+Shift+P/Cmd+Shift+P). - Run Color Theme → Monkey Theme (Dark) or Monkey Theme (Light) .
- Run File Icon Theme → Monkey Icons.
Your file explorer will switch to the Monkey Icons theme.
- Node: use a version supported by the project (see
package.jsonengines). - Package manager: pnpm (see
packageManagerinpackage.json).
pnpm install
pnpm build # build theme once
pnpm build:dev # watch and rebuild on changes
pnpm lint # run linters (Biome, SVGO)
pnpm package # create .vsix for distribution- GitHub: YoichiKojima/Monkey-Theme
- Author: Yoichi Kojima
See LICENSE.md in this repository.