Material 3 Expressive

An Obsidian theme based on Material You and Android 16 guidelines. Designed to offer a fluid experience with rounded shapes, expressive typography, and grouped lists.

✨ Features

Dynamic Colors: Generates complete tonal palettes (surfaces, containers, accents) from a single base hue to fully align with Material You.
Adaptive Dark Mode: An elegant dark design that adapts primarily to your chosen accent color, giving you a wide variety of personalized color choices.
Grouped Lists: Native Android 16 style for settings and navigation menus.
Desktop Version in Progress: We are actively working to make the desktop version as polished and native-feeling as the mobile version!

🚀 Installation

Via Community Themes (Recommended)

Open Obsidian > Settings > Appearance.
Under "Themes", click "Manage".
Search for Material Color (or Material 3 Expressive) and click "Install", then "Use".

Manual Installation

Download and extract this ZIP file.
Place the extracted folder into your Obsidian vault at: .obsidian/themes/
Open Obsidian > Settings > Appearance > Themes and select Material Color (or Material 3 Expressive).

🔌 Supported Plugins

This theme includes native design support for community plugins perfectly integrated with the Material 3 aesthetic:

Notebook Navigator
Highlightr

🐹 Fuel the Hamster

Love the theme? You can support its development by buying me a sunflower seed 🌻. Your appreciation allows me to dedicate more time to polishing details and adding features.

⚙️ Development Note

[!IMPORTANT] Version Status v1.0.0

Material-3-Expressive is currently in an active optimization phase. Although the Android 16-inspired visual base is mostly functional and stable, the project is under continuous refinement.

⚖️ Disclaimer & License

This is an independent project inspired by Google's Material Design guidelines and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC.

Material 3 Expressive

Description

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