The boldest of the set — magenta arterials on black.
6144 × 9216 px · 78 files · without postal codesA FiveM neon minimap that is still a map
Neon is the most requested minimap style and the easiest one to get wrong. The failed version glows everywhere: the ground, the water, the type, all of it bloomed until the map is a light show you cannot navigate by. The version that works puts the light on exactly the things you need to see and leaves everything else dark.
What we would run on this kind of server
Three concrete recommendations rather than a shrug — with the reason attached.
A green neon road network that stays distinct on stream.
6144 × 9216 px · 78 files · without postal codesIndigo depth with violet highlights, numbers included.
6144 × 9216 px · 78 files · with postal codesWhere the glow goes
On the motorway tier and the coastline, and nowhere else. The motorways are what you navigate by at speed, and a coastline that emits a little light is what stops land and sea merging into one dark mass on a night map.
The ground stays near-black and matte. That is what makes the glow read as glow — light needs dark next to it, and a map where everything is lit has no light in it at all.
- Emissive highlight on the motorway tier
- Lit coastline so land and sea stay separate
- Matte, near-black ground
- Bathymetric lines picked out in the accent colour
Five neon palettes
Crimson for redzone servers, cobalt for the highest contrast, emerald for something distinctive on stream, violet for servers whose Discord is already purple, and magenta for the boldest identity in the collection. Each is a separate build rather than a hue rotation, so the road hierarchy and the water depth still read correctly in every one.
Neon and streaming
Saturated colour survives video compression badly — it is the first thing a bitrate-starved stream loses. The palettes here keep the saturation on thin road strokes over a dark ground, which is the arrangement that holds up best on a stream. A neon map with large saturated areas is the one that turns into blocks on Twitch.
Questions
Which neon colours are available?
Is a neon map hard to read?
Will a neon map clash with my HUD?
Can I get neon with postal numbers?
Not sure yet?
Open the live preview and look at any street on any theme before you spend a cent.