Theme guide The best Home Assistant themes in 2026
Material You for Home Assistant
Google's Material 3 Expressive design on a Home Assistant dashboard, and the most actively maintained theme in the ecosystem.
Updated 26 August 2026
Material You brings Google's Material 3 Expressive design to Home Assistant: tonal colour palettes, rounded components and the look the Google Home app itself has moved to. It is the most actively maintained theme in the ecosystem, and the one that tracks Home Assistant's own frontend changes most closely.
The base theme is a single HACS download with light and dark variants registered, so it follows the light and dark toggle in your profile. The same developer also publishes a separate companion project that restyles the components themselves rather than just the colours. It goes further and depends on more internals, so start with the theme alone and add the companion later if you want the full effect.
Variants
Dark
The tonal dark look, and the one most Material You dashboards run.
Light
The light counterpart, for dashboards that stay on through the day.
Frequently asked questions
Does Material You have light and dark modes?
Yes. Both variants are registered, so Home Assistant swaps between them with the light and dark setting in your profile.
Why does it update so often?
The project follows Home Assistant's frontend changes release by release. When a platform update renames or adds theme variables, a theme release usually lands within days, which is exactly the behaviour that keeps a theme looking right.
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