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Brand Your App Like A Designer Instead Of A Google Default Monkey

Fred Grott
4 min readAug 30, 2022

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s with when MD2 came out, Google MD3 assumed that we give up our brand colors and let that one input color to generate the

color scheme be now the user wallpaper color. Nah, let’s see if we can keep our brand colors in the new colors space instead.

And, to be fair to Google, it does bring down to beginners in that one does not have to cover the nuances of color theory and the brand new color space in Material Design 3. My counterpoint is by doing that and no doing the work of teaching, we are giving students learning flutter less design power. Heck with that!

Because why? Because, front-end developers are more than just developers. We are designers!

This involves using Flex Color Scheme to generate the Color Scheme with 3 brand color inputs instead of the Flutter SDK way of one input color. Let me briefly show how easy this is!

Brand Colors

So I am just using 3 brand colors from my social profile icon:

The Flex Color Scheme in addition to filling the gaps in material themes has tools so that app designer…

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Fred Grott
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