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Material You calendar widget

By the WidgetCraft team · Updated November 13, 2026

A Material You calendar widget shows today's date beside your next event. Android 12-style tonal colors, large rounded shapes and friendly type. This page gives the exact colors, type settings and layers, with a preview drawn from the same values.

Material You calendar widget design preview: Android 12-style tonal colors, large rounded shapes and friendly type. — Design preview drawn from the recipe below. Example values are shown; your widget uses live data.

What a Material You calendar widget shows

A calendar widget answers two questions: what day is it, and what is next. The date sits in a bold block on the left and the next event takes the right side.

The date works with no permission. Showing events needs Android's calendar permission and a calendar connection, which is a Pro feature in WidgetCraft. Without it you can still build the date block on its own for free.

How the Material You style shapes it

Material You is the design language Google introduced with Android 12. Widgets use soft tonal colors drawn from the wallpaper, very round corners and big readable numbers. This recipe recreates the look with fixed colors you choose.

Numbers: Make numbers large and rounded in the on-surface color.
Lists: Place each row on its own tonal pill with 16 points of padding.

Material You calendar widget recipe

Layer	Settings
Canvas	360 × 180, background #E8DEF8, corner radius 28
Shape	date block 104 × 124, radius 20, fill #6750A4
Date	weekday (size 13) and day number (size 58) centered on the block, color #FFFFFF
Text	label "Next", size 11, color #625B71
List or Text	next event title, Google Sans or Roboto, size 19, color #1D192B; time at size 14 in #625B71
Shape	divider 1.5 pt in #625B71 at 40% opacity
Ornament	a large circle in the darker container tone, tucked into the bottom right corner
Font	Google Sans or Roboto (import the font file), or the built-in Sans
Home screen size	4 × 2 cells

Material You color palette

Tonal lavender #E8DEF8Background
Primary container #D0BCFFSurface and tracks
On-surface #1D192BText
Outline grey #625B71Labels
Primary purple #6750A4Accent

How to make a Material You calendar widget in WidgetCraft

Create a widget and open Canvas. Set the size to 360 × 180, the background to #E8DEF8 and the corner radius to 28.
Add a Shape on the left, 104 × 124 with radius 20, filled with #6750A4.
Add two Date layers over it: the short weekday at size 13 and the day number at size 58, both in #FFFFFF.
Add a Text label "Next" at size 11 in #625B71.
Add a List layer, open Data and choose your calendar. Set the title to size 19 in #1D192B and the time to size 14 in #625B71.
Add the Material You ornament with Shape layers and move them below the other layers in Layers: a large circle in the darker container tone, tucked into the bottom right corner.
Tap Save, then Add to home screen and resize the widget on your launcher if needed.

The layout and styling are free. The live data connection for this widget needs WidgetCraft Pro, a one-time purchase.

Tips for Material You calendar widgets

Take background, container and text from one hue at different lightness.
Use 28 points of corner radius.
Event titles vary in length, so give the title a single line and let it truncate.
Show one or two events at most in a 4 × 2 widget.
If no events appear, check that the calendar you chose is the one your events are saved in.
Do not mix unrelated hues.
Do not use hairline borders.

Questions about the Material You calendar widget

What size is a Material You calendar widget?

It is designed for 4 × 2 home screen cells on a 360 × 180 canvas. You can resize it on the launcher and the design scales in proportion.

Which colors does it use?

Tonal lavender (#E8DEF8) for the background, On-surface (#1D192B) for the main text, Outline grey (#625B71) for labels and Primary purple (#6750A4) as the accent.

Is it free to make?

The Material You design is free to build. Showing live events needs the one-time Pro upgrade.

What else is this style called?

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