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Material for MkDocs

Create beautiful project documentation

Material is a theme for MkDocs, an excellent static site generator geared towards project documentation. It is built using Google's Material Design guidelines.

Material for MkDocs

Quick start

Install the latest version of Material with pip:

pip install mkdocs-material

Add the following line to mkdocs.yml:

theme:
  name: material

What to expect

  • Responsive design and fluid layout for all kinds of screens and devices, designed to serve your project documentation in a user-friendly way in 41 languages with optimal readability.

  • Easily customizable primary and accent color, fonts, favicon and logo; straight forward localization through theme extension; integrated with Google Analytics, Disqus and GitHub.

  • Well-designed search interface accessible through hotkeys (F or S), intelligent grouping of search results, search term highlighting and lazy loading.

For detailed instructions see the getting started guide.