Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read
I read many phrases like this one and once in a while I can’t stop myself from remind that:
- Guidelines is different from Rules
- The Material Palette was not developed to be the only source of colors to create color schemes. It’s goals were essentially:
- To give an example of what bold and intentional design could mean.
- To give to teams without designers (or to designers that are not so familiar with Color Theory, even if should be a must to know) a selection of colors hand picked that would work well together. Sadly, no guidance was provided about how to mach a Primary and an Accent color, but this is another story.
At Google I/O 2014, when Material Design was introduced, the MD team was cristal clear: if your app/site already have brand colors, you must use them!
Material Design is here to provide the basic metaphor, the digital environment, the structure and the components to build our app – there’s no need to copy cat Google’s apps to make good use of Material Design.
