# Daemonite Material Theme

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/daemonite-material-theme/64521>\
**Category:** Theme\
**Created:** [June 15, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daemonite-material-theme/64521 "2017-06-15T03:30:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![modius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/modius/32/108600_2.png) [@modius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/modius)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/daemonite-material-theme/64521/1 "2017-06-15T03:30:03Z")

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The Daemonites have released a brand new, native theme for the Discourse forum based on the Google Material design guidelines.

[https://github.com/Daemonite/discourse-material-theme](https://github.com/Daemonite/discourse-material-theme)

## As Flash as a Rat with a Gold Tooth

There’s a lot of effort in Materializing a design that didn’t start out that way. We’re happy with the result.

**Topic Preview Plugin Support**

 ![topicpreview](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/2/9/82955f9847c9468a3f77d9181e7d9fe74fde1a5c.jpeg)

**Colourful Sub-Categories**

 ![subcategories](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/d/9/5d9864949c6d08d1e66e0a29c0a5c925179236dd.jpeg)

**New Topic; with Inbox inspiration**

 ![inboxinspired](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/9/3/c93458048de892368e70de5b0c2d258b55846c7c.jpeg)

**Menus, Buttons and Material Icons**

 ![materialdesign](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/4/4/5448e11c0490493044d050e938ca5fc620e9600f.jpeg)

## Why build “another” Material based theme?

Yep. There’s already a really cool Material Stock theme for Discourse available. It’s a bit different in places, and even includes a DARK mode.

> [@Material Design Theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-stock-theme/47142):
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> discourse2Summary Material Design has been created to be easily customizable.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/material-design-theme)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/material-design-stock-theme](https://github.com/discourse/material-design-stock-theme)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme Features Color Options

Our forum has been running it’s own Material theme for some time. We’ve finally wrapped this up into the new Discourse Theme format for distribution. Plus as we use the theme as the foundation for some other Discourse related projects we need something within our immediate control.

Overall i think the only way we can describe the visual differences is that ours is **more Material** ; covers more elements in the style guide, more accurately. That said, whether you like one or the other will probably boil down to personal preference – we make a few _opinionated choices_ with respect to certain elements.

For reference, the theme is similar in approach to the Daemonite Material for Bootstrap 4 project:

[https://github.com/Daemonite/material](https://github.com/Daemonite/material)

While Discourse is not Bootstrap-based, we do adhere to the same Material principals advocated in that design project.

You can see the theme running live at our Labs forum:

> **[Daemon | Serious web solutions](https://www.daemon.com.au)**
>
> We create strategies for succeeding online. Design and technical services for education, enterprise and government since 1995.

Enjoy!

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