Pronounced colors in Material You on Android 14
One of the nice things about Google’s Material You design is that you get colors in return that are beautiful together and resonate on many a window. But, the colors have been very pastel so far. It has not been very pronounced so far, but that is about to change.
Material You
The idea behind the design of Material You is, among other things, that the colors of your background serve as a guideline for the other colors in the menus and apps on your phone. This way everything falls within the same color scheme and that gives a stylish effect. But, because it is a derivative of the colors from the background, Google chooses the safe, pastel route. If you prefer to let that beautiful OLED screen do its job and use brighter colors, then there is good news.
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In Android 14, a new theme style is added that is much brighter. The style is called ‘Fidelity’ (meaning fidelity) and ensures that the base color is used directly, instead of a matt derivation of it. See more of it in the video below. This one was tweeted by Google’s design team.
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Android 14
Before you enthusiastically grab the beta of Android 14: it is not yet visible there, but 9to5Google says that the new style can be found in Google’s open source code. It even gives a small demo, because as you can see below you can indeed choose a nice candy pink, instead of old pink. Less baby, more Barbie. It is a challenge if you go to black mode, because then those vibrant colors are often less vibrant and pastel colors stand out more.
What do you think of this new feature that hopefully comes to Android 14 soon? Let us know now in the comments.
