Google’s New Timesaving Design Tool Lets You Unify Colors, Typography Across UI
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While Google’s ‘Material Design’, a design language for its apps, has received a few tweakings since its debut in 2014, it hasn’t had a massive upgrade until now.
At the company’s I/O developer festival this year, it introduced ‘Material Theming’, an incredibly timesaving system that lets you paste visual cues from a single element to your brand’s entire user experience.
“‘Theming’ lets anyone consistently and systematically express their unique style across a product,” the team said at the conference. “When you make just a few decisions about color and typography, for example, it’s simple to apply the direction throughout the environment.”
To help apply global style changes as quickly as possible, Google unveiled the ‘Material Theme Editor’, which gives you a control panel to easily integrate colors, types, and shapes, across the board.
‘Material Theming’ effectively fixes a core gripe of the original ‘Material Design’: that virtually every Android app looks the “same,” or made by Google, which isn’t ideal for brands.
The added flexibility lets food blogs look earthier, or a fashion site look brighter with extra pops of color and rounded buttons.
The tool is currently available on Sketch, and you can use it by downloading the ‘Material’ plugin on the app. Google aims to expand the system regularly, and will roll out new options such as animations, depth controls, and textures, next.
Image by Material Design via GIPHY
Image by Material Design via GIPHY
Image by Material Design via GIPHY
Image by Material Design via GIPHY
[via The Next Web, video via Google Design, images via Material Design]
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