In the realm of material design, a striking feature is the incorporation of bold, vivid hues. The color palette for material design is characterized by its inspiration from “bold contrasts with muted surroundings, pronounced shadows, and intense highlights.” To craft a material design color scheme, various online resources can be utilized.
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For a comprehensive overview of material design colors, a “cheatsheet” compiles all colors on a single page. Additionally, there’s a random color generator to let chance dictate your palette. A custom material-design-like palette can be created using a tool that requires you to choose a color, which doesn’t need to be an official material design color, and generates color swatches accordingly.
Another practical tool displays all material design colors in a compact grid, enabling users to click on colors to preview and generate palettes. A tool focusing on the 500 and A200 shades of material design color swatches is also available, as well as a simple visualization tool that presents primary colors side-by-side.
For those who prefer a more integrated approach, plugins and extensions can be installed to incorporate material design color swatches directly into design software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Gimp, and Inkscape.
Further reading on the topic includes “Color: The Next Limited Resource?”, “A Look into Color Theory in Web Design,” and “Introduction to CSS Colors.”
