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Thanks for the critiques Crovus. I was originally going to go ahead and add depth as I went, but then decided it'd be easier when I can go through once I'm finished with the basis. I added the background temporarily so people wouldn't be blinded by white on light grey (which sometimes blends on screens if they're not adjusted properly), it's not based off of Google's Material Design, it's just a tad similar. I'm gonna end up changing the title to a different one (on the forum and the design), just got it down in between making the design and finishing something else for school. Yeah, I was trying to bring some contrast out with the orange/red, but I do need to change it again to the purple. I'll look at their guidelines to see various color pallets though, as originally I was working on a screen that made the purple look blue, but now I'm working on a color corrected screen.

Well you called it "Material Design" and there is only one version of Material Design. (You even compared it to Google's Material Design.) Hence, it is "Material Design" just a failed attempt at it. (As it is right now anyway.) If you looked at Google's Guidelines then the screen doesn't matter as they give you the color code for each color they use as well as the ability to download a "Swatches" set from their site. The color codes you uses aren't even among Google's. There is a reason that Google uses those colors specifically, it has something to do with the contrasts.

Well, I went back and am currently looking at Google's Material Design for a reference. I'm changing it to a blue color, but when you said that Google makes use of the design to appear like paper upon paper, the "depth". Then I looked at the Google's area, as you said they don't round off the corners of things.

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After that, I went back and looked at Google's various Material-like things, and noticed that most of them have slight rounded corners. I was going for more of the Card Aspect rather than a "website" aspect. And I did call it "Material Design", but no there is not only one Material Design, this is my take on it. Google just dominates the Material Design area, and on the topic of you mentioning that the original color used isn't even on the Google Guidelines, they say they recommend it, though it's not requisite.

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Even if this is a "failed attempt" at being a Material Design, this is still one of the first thread designs I've done, and I'm pretty proud so far. Think I've come a fairly decent way considering how horrible my laptop is and how I'm slowly learning various things about graphics.


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I've edited the theme as a final project, there may be polish to the design afterwords. But this is most likely the final project.

@12 my fiancee, @272, got mad cause there shouldn't be any background patterns on it and said you should go to hell, and that you should go fuck yourself.