Description: material-black COLORS is a GTK, xfwm4, openbox-3, GNOME-Shell, and Cinnamon- Dark Mode Theme with matching Icons and Folders.
The material-black COLORS theme is based on Material Design standards and aims to bring a warm, colorful, and elegant experience to your desktop. Black-on-black-on-black with one additional color just where you need it.
This is the matching desktop theme.
FOR material-black COLORS icons & folders GO TO: https://www.pling.com/p/1333360/
Both the Suru++ and the Numix icons and folders have been carefully crafted to match the material-black COLORS desktop flavors, but they can surely compliment other desktop themes that sport matching color hues.
Special thanks to the Numix team for their inspiration, expertise and contributions at: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme. The Suru-grounded icon set was initially designed and developed by Sam Hewitt - under GPL3. The original Suru icon set and concept was created by Matthieu James - Canonical Design Team. Core developers are Andrea Bonanni (original author) and Gustavo Costa . Devices icons are inspired by La Capitaine created by Keefer Rourke - under GPL3/MIT. Emoji icons are derived from the Twenoji created by Twitter Team - under MIT. Some icons are based on Numix mimetypes icons created by the Numix Team - under GPL3. Devices and places icons and several apps icons are inspired by Papirus icons created by Alexey Varfolomeev - under GPL3. Numberless icons are from Gravit Designer, under GPL3/MIT.
Manual Installation Is Easy:
For themes: 1) Extract the "tar.xz" file into your "~/.themes/" folder - to install for current user only - or into the "/usr/share/themes/" folder - for the theme to be applied globally. 2) Use GNOME Tweaks, Dconf Editor, or an equivalent 'Look & Feel'/configuration app to enable it for your desktop.
If installing manually, make sure to install the dependency: "Murrine theme engine" if you do not already have it; and update your GTK+packages if you have not.
For icons: 1) Extract the "tar.xz" file into your "~/.icons/" folder - to install for current user only - or into the "/usr/share/icons/" folder - for the icons and folders to be applied globally. 2) Use GNOME Tweaks, Dconf Editor, or an equivalent 'Look & Feel'/configuration app to enable it for your desktop.
Logging out and then logging back in may be necessary on some operating systems to fully implement themes and icons.Last changelog:
2023-11-14 - Version 2.9.9-07
This update tweaks the "LA" variant dampening the shell's panel and dash text in its static state, while brightening this text when hovered over. Commit: 6d6c480
10I've had this theme for over four years, and gone through four of the six colors during that time. Just wanted to check in to thank you for keeping going and always modernized for the times!
9Enjoy the Material-Black-Blueberry theme, but the theme text is too dark and provides little contrast. I modified the theme to find a happy balance and ended up replacing the `color:` of `#9e9e9e` (RGBA `158, 158, 158, ...`) with `#ccc` and (RGBA `204, 204, 204, ...`). That worked much better. As long as we are stuck with the ugly-webized Gtk4, requiring 20K of CSS to make a "Hello World" presentable, attention to contrast is key -- especially for older eyes.
I've helped develop this and other teams' themes here at Pling. This one was actually designed to have a softer text rendering on purpose, i.e, not a "high contrast" theme - that's precisely the appeal for users that don't want such striking contrast. The rtl88 team, and numerous other themers here, indeed offer a huge variety of high contrast themes for your eye needs, this is a medium contrast theme however. Sort of like wishing your new boots were shoes, though they were never meant to be shoes. It's good you're on top those hex and RGBA tweaks, that can go a long way!
7Hey RTL88, this theme is begging for an update. Specifically with this line that "cuts through" Brave's interface, right under the URL bar, and it shows a slice of the desktop. Additionally, could there be more emblems for file and folders?
Here's a pic of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/AXreS9v
I had brave browser do it too. I not expect it to be theme but brave instead. Maybe you use one this theme other variant of the three they put here. That was did it good for me.
10It's rather annoying having different-themed windows simply because a developer didn't provide a theme for a certain theming system. This superb theme doesn't have this problem - it works with a mix-and-match of theming systems.. this should be done with more themes. Needs icons for Development/Code and Private folders.
Ratings & Comments
184 Comments
10 I've had this theme for over four years, and gone through four of the six colors during that time. Just wanted to check in to thank you for keeping going and always modernized for the times!
9 Enjoy the Material-Black-Blueberry theme, but the theme text is too dark and provides little contrast. I modified the theme to find a happy balance and ended up replacing the `color:` of `#9e9e9e` (RGBA `158, 158, 158, ...`) with `#ccc` and (RGBA `204, 204, 204, ...`). That worked much better. As long as we are stuck with the ugly-webized Gtk4, requiring 20K of CSS to make a "Hello World" presentable, attention to contrast is key -- especially for older eyes.
I've helped develop this and other teams' themes here at Pling. This one was actually designed to have a softer text rendering on purpose, i.e, not a "high contrast" theme - that's precisely the appeal for users that don't want such striking contrast. The rtl88 team, and numerous other themers here, indeed offer a huge variety of high contrast themes for your eye needs, this is a medium contrast theme however. Sort of like wishing your new boots were shoes, though they were never meant to be shoes. It's good you're on top those hex and RGBA tweaks, that can go a long way!
7 Hey RTL88, this theme is begging for an update. Specifically with this line that "cuts through" Brave's interface, right under the URL bar, and it shows a slice of the desktop. Additionally, could there be more emblems for file and folders? Here's a pic of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/AXreS9v
I had brave browser do it too. I not expect it to be theme but brave instead. Maybe you use one this theme other variant of the three they put here. That was did it good for me.
10 10 the best A legend among themes!
10 10 the best
10 10 the best
10 perfect!!!
10 Another fine theme, thanks!
9 9 excellent
10 Exactly what I've been looking for!
10 10 the best
10 The extra support is lots appreciated, it matters for me ;)
10 Im so glad you upate the theme ;)
10 10 thank you
8 8 great I like red and black colours! <3
10 10 the best
10 Thank you for updating, I've used this theme for a long time!
10 10 the best
10 10 the best
10 It's rather annoying having different-themed windows simply because a developer didn't provide a theme for a certain theming system. This superb theme doesn't have this problem - it works with a mix-and-match of theming systems.. this should be done with more themes. Needs icons for Development/Code and Private folders.
10 10 the best
can you please make a black and white?
4 4 soso