Introduction
Material Base — is a base theme for Drupal 7, 8 and 9, which implements Material Design concept by Google.
The theme was made as basic styles and a set of components, which can be easily combined for making beautiful Drupal themes instead of making it from scratch.
Material Base requires knowledge of Drupal theming system as well as knowledge of CSS and SASS.
Material Base — is the theme for themers. Happy theming!
v2 (Drupal 8, 9)
Requirements
None.
Installation
Install as usual, the recommended way for getting the theme is installing it with Composer.
For more information see Using Composer to Install Drupal and Manage Dependencies.
For other install options see Installing Themes.
Documentation
See docs folder inside theme folder.
Technologies
- CSS preprocessor - SASS
- Build stack - Yarn / Webpack
- Material Design library - Material Components for the web
- Grid - Flexbox Grid
Features
- Responsive
- Multipurpose
- Material Design 2nd edition
- Component based approach
- 20+ well documented components
- Icon font, SVG sprite icons
- Subtheme generator
v1 (Drupal 7, 8, 9)
Demo
Requirements
None.
Installation
Install as usual, for further information see:
Documentation
v1 project page - mb.4dd.pw
Technologies
- CSS preprocessor - SASS
- Build stack - npm / Gulp
- Syntax highlighter - Prism
- Layout - Flex box model
- Grid - Flexbox Grid
Features
- Responsive
- Multipurpose
- Color themes
- Dark theme
- Icons
Differences between versions
Material Base v2 rewritten from scratch with modern tools and approaches.
Important! Material Base v2 is not compatible with v1 and there is no upgrade path.
Which version to choose
v2 is a modern theme in active development but it requires a deeper knowledge of Drupal theming for efficient usage. Choose it for new projects and projects with custom theme development.
v1 will not receive new features but it is simpler for site-building. Choose it for creating simple themes or prototyping.
