In material design, everything should have a certain z-depth that determines how far raised or close to the page the element is.
You can easily apply this shadow effect by adding a class="z-depth-2"
to an HTML tag. Alternatively you can extend any of these shadows with Sass using @extend .z-depth-2.
<div class="col s6 m3 l2">
<p class="z-depth-1">z-depth-1</p>
</div>
<div class="col s6 m3 l2">
<p class="z-depth-2">z-depth-2</p>
</div>
<div class="col s6 m3 l2">
<p class="z-depth-3">z-depth-3</p>
</div>
<div class="col s6 m3 l2">
<p class="z-depth-4">z-depth-4</p>
</div>
<div class="col s6 m3 l2">
<p class="z-depth-5">z-depth-5</p>
</div>