🆚 Emerald vs. Material Design Lite

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Type

User interface framework
User interface framework

About

Emerald is an opinionated responsive grid system written in LESS.

Material Design Lite (MDL) is a legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain CSS, JavaScript, and HTML without external dependencies.

It provides a set of ready-made UI components, such as buttons, layouts, cards, menus, sliders, and dialogs, a responsive grid system, and automatic component upgrading via JavaScript.

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #62
UI Frameworks › Rank #22
Legacy › Rank #111
Legacy › Rank #43

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Material Design Lite UI framework is 359 times more popular than Emerald.
Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks
Legacy

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Material Design Lite is more popular than Emerald in all countries.
United States
Germany
Spain
France
Italy
India
Japan
United Kingdom
Russia
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Material Design Lite is more popular than Emerald in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
Real Estate
Entertainment
Health
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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