Material You clock widget

What a Material You clock widget shows

A digital clock is the widget most people place first. It needs to be readable from arm's length, so the time takes most of the space and the date sits quietly below it.

It uses the phone's own time, so it needs no permission and works offline. WidgetCraft's clock layer follows your 12- or 24-hour setting unless you choose a format.

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.
• Text: Use a friendly sans at medium weight in a dark tone of the same hue as the background.

Material You clock widget recipe

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 clock widget in WidgetCraft

1. Create a widget and open Canvas. Set the size to 360 × 180, the background to #E8DEF8 and the corner radius to 28.
2. Tap Add and choose Clock. Set the format to hours and minutes, the font to Google Sans or Roboto, the size to 78 and the color to #1D192B.
3. Add a Date layer above it for the weekday at size 12 in #625B71.
4. Add a second Date layer below for the day and month at size 15.
5. Add a small Shape in #6750A4 as the only accent, and align every layer to the same left margin of 24.
6. Arrange the layers in the header layout: weekday on the left and date on the right in one row at the top, a hairline under it, and the time anchored to the bottom left at size 83.
7. 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.
8. Tap Save, then Add to home screen and resize the widget on your launcher if needed.

Everything in this recipe works in the free version.

Tips for Material You clock widgets

• Take background, container and text from one hue at different lightness.
• Use 28 points of corner radius.
• Seconds make a home screen widget look busy and Android updates widgets about once a minute, so leave them out.
• Check the widest time, such as 22:58 or 12:48 PM, so it never touches the edges.
• If the launcher crops the widget, reduce the time size before reducing the margins.
• Do not mix unrelated hues.
• Do not use hairline borders.

Questions about the Material You clock widget

What size is a Material You clock 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?

Yes. Clock widgets use free features in WidgetCraft, and the Material You styling is free too.

What else is this style called?

People also search for material 3 clock widget, android 12 style clock widget, pixel style clock widget, google style clock widget. They describe the same look as this Material You clock widget.

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