Google is bringing Material You-style color themes to desktop Chrome

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A screenshot of Google Chrome with a yellow color theme applied.
Picking a yellow colored wallpaper adjusts Chrome’s interface to match. | Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge
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The latest Canary build of Google Chrome includes a neat feature that automatically picks a color scheme for the browser based on the wallpaper shown when you open a new tab. The feature was first spotted by u/Leopeva64-2 over on Reddit, who shows how changing the new tab wallpaper automatically adjusts the color scheme of the browser’s address bar and interface. It’s previously been possible to manually change Chrome’s color scheme to one of your choosing, but this simplifies the process.

According to Google’s software, the feature “enables setting theme color based on background image color when background image is changed in New Tab Page,” and is available on Mac, Windows, and Linux, as well as Google’s own ChromeOS and Fuchsia…

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Source: TheVerge