Start with one color. Let the rest fall into place.

Ever pick one color you love, then spend the next half hour trying to make everything else match? Material You Color turns one seed color into a complete, ready-to-use color system inside Blender.

Choose a color, grab one from the active material, or pull a few good candidates from an image. The add-on builds a balanced set of roles and tonal palettes that you can use on materials, node groups, paint palettes, and image grading.

A full palette without the guesswork

Generate light or dark schemes, try different styles, and adjust contrast without manually nudging every swatch. Primary, secondary, tertiary, surface, error, and “on” colors stay organized and easy to read.

Use the colors, not just look at them

Assign a color role to selected objects, build reusable shader node groups, or create a Blender paint palette. If you change the seed later, linked Material You materials and node groups can follow along.

Pull color ideas from an image

Load a reference image and let the add-on find a few useful seed colors. Pick the one that fits, then generate the rest of the scheme from it.

HCT grading for materials and images

Shift hue, colorfulness, tone, and contrast while keeping the result visually balanced. Image grading creates a new image, so the original stays untouched.

What you get

• Material You Color 1.0.0 Blender extension ZIP.
• 49 organized color roles and six tonal palettes.
• Color and image seed workflows.
• Material assignment, shader node groups, and paint palette tools.
• HCT grading for selected materials and images.
• GPL-3.0-or-later license; bundled color utilities include their original Apache-2.0 notices.

Compatibility

• Requires Blender 4.2 or newer.
• Tested on Blender 5.2.2 for macOS Apple Silicon.
• No account, cloud service, or separate runtime is required.
• For exact on-screen hex matching, use Blender’s Standard view transform. The add-on checks the current view settings and can switch them for you.

Good to know

This is a color workflow tool, not a material generator. It helps your colors work together; it does not create textures, lighting, or finished shaders for you.

Material You is a Google design system. This independent Blender add-on is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

The cover is illustrative artwork. Blender UI screenshots and the same-scene comparison show the actual add-on.