🆚 Fluent vs. Material Design

Fluent Design System is Microsoft's cross-platform design language that defines how user interfaces should look and behave across Windows, web, and mobile applications.

It uses a unified set of design tokens for colors, spacing, icons, and typography, and supports adaptive layouts for different screen sizes.

Material Design is a design system developed by Google that defines a unified visual and interaction language used across Android, web, and other platforms.

It uses grid-based layouts, consistent color palettes and typography, interactive "elevation" shadows and lighting to convey depth, motion and animation for user feedback and transitions, and a comprehensive set of ready-to-use UI components.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Design Systems category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Design Systems category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Design Systems category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Design Systems category.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Design Systems category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Design Systems category.
• 🥇 Most popular in France in the Design Systems category.
• 🥇 Most popular in India in the Design Systems category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Design Systems category.

Top sites

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