---
title: "MaterialRung"
description: "A rung of the material ladder, meaning how a surface sits above what is behind it."
url: "https://opsinjs.pensievelabs.org/reference/api/MaterialRung"
source: "https://opsinjs.pensievelabs.org/reference/api/MaterialRung.md"
section: "Reference"
kind: "reference"
---

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## How this is generated [#how-this-is-generated]

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## MaterialRung [#materialrung]

A rung of the material ladder, meaning how a surface sits above what is behind it.

These six names are the token names: every rung resolves a matching set of `--opsin-material-<rung>-*` custom properties for blur, tint, shadow and border. Where a specification page names a different set, the tokens win, because the tokens are what actually renders.

| Kind | Declared in      |
| ---- | ---------------- |
| type | `lib/opsinjs.ts` |

```ts
export type MaterialRung =
  | "canvas"
  | "card"
  | "raised"
  | "sheet"
  | "overlay"
  | "scrim"
```

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