WordPress themes using Material Design

2 years ago, we could easily see the flat design style (Flat Design) has really dominated the website and software market, inspired by Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system.

Recently, however, the design world is paying attention to a new design trend initiated by Google called Material Design. While Flat Design tends to have a simple, flat design with each certain color block, Material Design also has a similar design but is somewhat more prominent than flat in that it will be highlighted by poured color blocks. shadow, use more motion effects, including buttons.

Principles of Material Design

For the web, there are now a lot of Material Design style UI sets like MaterializeCSS, MUI CSS, Angular Material,..makes it easy to put this design style on your website.

But if you don’t want to spend a lot of time integrating it yourself into your WordPress theme, here is a list of WordPress themes that use this design style.

Free Theme that supports Material Design

Note that currently free themes that support Material Design are all starter themes, which means it’s very simple so you will need to customize it yourself if you want it to be more complicated.

MaterialWP (Demo / Download)

MaterialWP uses the starter theme Underscores.me as the foundation of the code inside, then they use Bootstrap and customize it to get a complete Material Design style interface.

Material Gaze ( Download )

This is a child theme of the theme Stargazer quite famous built on Hybrid Framework.

Materialist (Demo/Download)

This theme is quite simple but very beautiful, I like it the most in the point of displaying shortened articles on the homepage, which is very nice and sophisticated, without sidebar.

Paid Theme that supports Material Design

Paid themes will be somewhat more complicated and you can use them without any customization.

Lincoln (Demo & Download)

This is a fairly new Material Design theme with full feature support for the needs of creating an education site. It supports displaying courses separate from articles and inside each course page there is a very eye-catching and complete display of detailed information, suitable for almost any educational website.

Zephyr ( Demo & Download )

This is one of the leading Material Design premium themes available today, supporting all types of websites from blogs and magazines to about pages, portfolios and even shops.

Rare ( Demo & Download )

Rare is a theme for blogging or storytelling websites because it focuses on displaying content, but you will be amazed with its sophistication. It supports you with many styles of displaying posts and pages that can’t be more beautiful.

EstateMLS (Demo & Download)

Build a real estate website with Material Design style interface, why not?

Obsession (Demo & Download)

A general theme for business website design needs, it can be displayed in One Page or regular format, good support for WPML plugin for multi-language and powerful customization with Visual Composer .

Pinty (Demo & Download)

It’s simply a blog theme, but has a Pinterest-like display that supports logging in and posting with Facebook and Google+ accounts.

Appica 2 (Demo & Download)

If you are looking for a modern interface suitable for mobile application introduction, then Apptica 2 may be suitable for your needs. It supports display with 2 styles that are apps for iOS and Android.

Impala (Demo & Download)

Impala is a Material Design theme for magazine or news sites. But with its flexibility, you can configure it for other types of websites like portfolio, showcase, etc.

Jackdaw (Demo & Download)

If you need a separate theme for mobile phones to use with plugins that support changing themes on phones like Mobile Theme Switch then this theme is very reasonable and worth using.

Pyxis (Demo & Download)

Last on this list is a very beautiful, multi-featured theme and you will probably fall in love with it at first sight, its name is Pyxis. Pyxis seems suitable for sites that sell digital products like software, photos, etc. because it is integrated with Easy Digital Download, but you can still use it for other similar purposes.

Epilogue

You may have noticed that the Material Design trend is very beautiful and less boring than the previous flat style, especially you can see more about the Material Design example on the page. Google Support.