diff --git a/source/beamercolorthememetropolis-minimal.dtx b/source/beamercolorthememetropolis-minimal.dtx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55e5c11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/beamercolorthememetropolis-minimal.dtx
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+% \iffalse meta-comment -------------------------------------------------------
+% Copyright 2015 Matthias Vogelgesang and the LaTeX community. A full list of
+% contributors can be found at
+%
+%     https://github.com/matze/mtheme/graphs/contributors
+%
+% and the original template was based on the HSRM theme by Benjamin Weiss.
+%
+% This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
+% International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
+% ------------------------------------------------------------------------- \fi
+% \iffalse
+%<*package>
+\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
+\ProvidesPackage{beamercolorthememetropolis-minimal}[2016/03/14 Metropolis color theme]
+%</package>
+% \fi
+% \CheckSum{0}
+% \StopEventually{}
+% \iffalse
+%<*package>
+% ------------------------------------------------------------------------- \fi
+%
+\usecolortheme{metropolis}
+
+\definecolor{mAlert}{HTML}{CA0047}
+
+\setbeamercolor{normal text}{%
+  fg=black!98,
+  bg=white
+}
+\setbeamercolor{alerted text}{%
+  fg=mAlert,
+}
+\setbeamercolor{example text}{%
+  fg=black!50
+}
+%
+%    \begin{macrocode}
+\mode<all>
+%    \end{macrocode}
+%
+% \iffalse
+%</package>
+% \fi
+% \Finale
+\endinput
diff --git a/source/beamerthememetropolis.ins b/source/beamerthememetropolis.ins
index 5a78e84..05133a4 100644
--- a/source/beamerthememetropolis.ins
+++ b/source/beamerthememetropolis.ins
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
 \generate{\file{beamercolorthememetropolis.sty}{%
           \from{beamercolorthememetropolis.dtx}{package}}
           }
+\generate{\file{beamercolorthememetropolis-minimal.sty}{%
+          \from{beamercolorthememetropolis-minimal.dtx}{package}}
+          }
 \generate{\file{pgfplotsthemetol.sty}{%
           \from{pgfplotsthemetol.dtx}{package}}
           }