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Flat UI vs Material Design Lite: What are the differences?
Developers describe Flat UI as "Free Bootstrap Framework and Theme". Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel. On the other hand, Material Design Lite is detailed as "Material Design Lite Components in HTML/CSS/JS". Material Design Lite (MDL) lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your static content websites. It doesn't rely on any JavaScript frameworks or libraries. Optimized for cross-device use, gracefully degrades in older browsers, and offers an experience that is accessible from the get-go.
Flat UI and Material Design Lite can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
Some of the features offered by Flat UI are:
- Bootstrap-based
- Retina Ready Images and Icons
- Custom form components
On the other hand, Material Design Lite provides the following key features:
- Blog Template
- Dashboard Template
- Text Heavy Webpage Template
Flat UI and Material Design Lite are both open source tools. It seems that Material Design Lite with 31.3K GitHub stars and 5.32K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flat UI with 14.5K GitHub stars and 2.46K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Material Design Lite has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 26 developers stacks; compared to Flat UI, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Flat UI
- Sass support1
- CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap1
- Good for mockups and minimal UI design1
- Basic Flat design1
Pros of Material Design Lite
- Material Design straight from the original creators23
- Based on bem philosophy11
- Nice animations9
- SCSS7
- Simple Material Design5
- Doesn't depend on JavaScript5
- Custom color palette generates CDN2
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Cons of Flat UI
- Not for creative and modern UI design1
