[Addon] Flat Monkey Dark Skin

junkerderprovinz · Post by **junkerderprovinz** » Thu Jul 02, 2026 5:24 pm

Hi everyone,

I made a dark reshell of the bundled Flat Monkey skin and figured I'd share it here. It's called Flat Monkey Dark, it's free, and the short version is: the whole UI goes neutral dark grey (IBM Carbon palette), and the single splash of colour is an accent you pick yourself with a real colour picker right in the MediaMonkey options.

What it does

Free accent colour picker in Tools > Options > Skin. The old fixed theme radio (dark/light x orange/blue) is gone, replaced by an actual colour picker. Default is a sunflower yellow (#FFE000), but any colour works. The accent drives the player highlight, the now-playing track, progress and volume sliders, hotlinks, the seek waveform and the selected rows.
Auto-contrast text and icons on the accent. Pick a light accent and the text on it turns dark, pick a dark accent and it turns light, so whatever you choose stays readable. There's also a built-in readability guard that blocks a colour that wouldn't work at all.
Uniform accent selection. Selected rows use the full accent colour in every pane (track lists, now-playing, playlist sidebar), in both focus states, with no grey flash on hover. I also fixed a Flat Monkey quirk where the tree selection basically disappeared when the pane lost focus.
Accent-coloured seek waveform, full strength, texture preserved.
IBM Carbon greyscale everywhere else. Window #161616, panels #262626, borders #393939, text #f4f4f4. Dark only, the light variants are removed.
Square title bars and panels (no rounded headers), hidden breadcrumb bar, and a Small / Normal / Large size option.

Install

Download Flat Monkey Dark.mmip from the latest release: https://github.com/junkerderprovinz/fla ... ses/latest
In MediaMonkey: Tools > Add-ons > Add... and pick the file.
Tools > Options > Layout / Skin and select Flat Monkey Dark.

If you're updating from an older version of the skin: MediaMonkey caches compiled skins, so delete %APPDATA%\MediaMonkey5\precompiledLess_Flat Monkey Dark_Desktop.css and restart MM after installing.

Download & source
Latest release: https://github.com/junkerderprovinz/fla ... ses/latest
Repo: https://github.com/junkerderprovinz/flat-monkey-dark

Credit and licence
This is an unofficial derivative of the bundled Flat Monkey skin (c) Ventis Media, Inc., modified under the Ventis Limited Reciprocal License, which explicitly permits derivative skins. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Ventis Media. Full credits are in the repo's NOTICE file.

If something looks off (especially with an unusual accent colour) or you find a bug, I'd love a report on GitHub: https://github.com/junkerderprovinz/fla ... ark/issues. Feedback here in the thread is very welcome too.