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Material You photo widget

By the WidgetCraft team · Updated November 13, 2026

A Material You photo widget frames a favorite picture with a short caption. 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 photo 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 photo widget shows

A photo widget puts a person, place or pet on the home screen without making it the wallpaper. The frame, the crop and the caption decide whether it feels designed or just pasted in.

You pick the picture with Android's photo picker, so WidgetCraft needs no storage permission, and the photo stays on your phone. It is a free element.

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.

Photos: Clip photos to large rounded rectangles or a scalloped shape if you draw one.
Text: Use a friendly sans at medium weight in a dark tone of the same hue as the background.

Material You photo widget recipe

Layer	Settings
Canvas	360 × 200, background #E8DEF8, corner radius 28
Layout	caption on the left, photo on the right
Image	190 × 160, corner radius 20, crop to fill
Text	place label, size 12, color #625B71
Text	caption in two lines, Google Sans or Roboto, size 24, color #1D192B
Shape	rule 28 × 3 in #6750A4
Text	date, size 12, color #625B71
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 photo widget in WidgetCraft

Create a widget and open Canvas. Set the size to 360 × 200, the background to #E8DEF8 and the corner radius to 28.
Tap Add and choose Image. Pick your photo, size it to 190 × 160 and set crop to fill.
Set the image corner radius to 20. Drag the crop so the subject is centered.
Add a Text caption at size 24 in #1D192B using Google Sans or Roboto.
Add a small place label above and a date below, both at size 12 in #625B71, with a short rule in #6750A4 between them.
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.

Everything in this recipe works in the free version.

Tips for Material You photo widgets

Take background, container and text from one hue at different lightness.
Use 28 points of corner radius.
Choose a photo whose subject sits in the middle; widgets crop the edges.
Portrait photos suit 2 × 2 or tall widgets better than wide ones.
Very large images make widgets slow; let the app resize the photo when asked.
Do not mix unrelated hues.
Do not use hairline borders.

Questions about the Material You photo widget

What size is a Material You photo widget?

It is designed for 4 × 2 home screen cells on a 360 × 200 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. Photo 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 photo widget, android 12 style photo widget, pixel style photo widget, google style photo widget. They describe the same look as this Material You photo widget.

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