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# Angular Material Design
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Google's
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[Material Design](https://material.io/guidelines/material-design/introduction.html)
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is an example of a _design language_, a
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general set of principles and ideas that are used to give designs a
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consistent look and feel. A design language might be used in-house by
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a company to maintain a "family resemblance" between its products or to
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produce user-friendly signage. Material Design is Google's approach to
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keeping user interfaces consistent between apps, using insights from
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product design and cognitive psychology.
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[Angular Material](https://material.angular.io/) is a set of components,
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styles and other GUI elements
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that follow the Material Design guidelines. ADF uses Angular Material
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to implement its components but you can also use it directly when
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creating your own components or modifying the ones provided by ADF.
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## Themes
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Material Design doesn't enforce one single color scheme but it does
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specify a number of **themes**. A theme is a set of colors in various
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shades, each of which lends itself to a particular task in the GUI.
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For example, using the suggested shades for status bars, backgrounds
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and shadows helps to give the correct emphasis to these elements and
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ensure they look familiar to the user. The Material Design
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[themes documentation](https://material.io/guidelines/style/color.html#color-themes)
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has more information as well as color swatches and other resources.
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An advantage of using themes is that one theme can easily be replaced
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by another - the CSS styling is designed so that a given class name in one theme plays
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an equivalent role in all other themes. See the [Theming](theming.md) page
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for details of how to apply an off-the-shelf theme to your ADF app or to
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create your own theme.
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## Components
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Angular Material implements a variety of GUI components. These include
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controls like radio buttons and checkboxes but also structures for layout
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(lists, grids, etc) and navigation (toolbars, sidebars, menus). See the
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[components section](https://material.angular.io/components/categories) of
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the Angular Material docs for more information.
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## Icons
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Material Design has extensive
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[guidelines](https://material.io/guidelines/style/icons.html) for the design
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of icons. These images serve as visual indicators for GUI functions and data
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elements (eg, a small graphic of a person could denote a user). A selection of
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standard icons is also available for common items. For example, a microphone
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icon indicates audio input while a magnifying glass emphasizes a search box.
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See the Material Design
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[system icon docs](https://material.io/guidelines/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons)
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for further information and to download the set of standard icon images.
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## See also
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- [Theming](theming.md)
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