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Style chips for easy usability

Style chips for easy usability Bad Practice
Style chips for easy usability Best Practice

In order to ensure your chips are visually appealing and functional:

  • Use relevant and clear leading and trailing icons that are easy to understand. For example, using a star icon at the beginning of a chip for "favorite" items, and a cross icon at the end of the chip that can be clicked to remove it.
  • Consider rounded borders for an aesthetically pleasing chip design — while this is not a rule, most UIs style chips this way, so users are more likely to find this styling intuitive.
  • Create a distinction between the chip background (fill color) and page color. Use distinctive borders or shadows to make them as prominent enough but not too attention-grabbing. Keep in mind that chips are only for secondary, non-critical actions and style them as such.
  • Make sure the contrast ratio of the text label to the background is at least 3:1 to ensure readability.[1]

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