diff --git a/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.html b/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.html
index 008ca1f8b68a..2ea1c66c3b4c 100644
--- a/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.html
+++ b/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.html
@@ -229,3 +229,11 @@ <h1>Elevation</h1>
 box-shadow: var(--mat-app-level{{level}})
 </div>
 }
+
+<h1>Overrides</h1>
+
+<div class="demo-overrides">
+  This container has several system variables applied and includes the
+  <span class="demo-surface-variable">mat.theme-overrides</span> mixin
+  to change their values from the existing theme.
+</div>
diff --git a/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.scss b/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.scss
index 7d94e2bde30e..cb3a320dc129 100644
--- a/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.scss
+++ b/src/dev-app/theme/theme-demo.scss
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@use '@angular/material';
+@use '@angular/material' as mat;
 
 :host {
   display: block;
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ a {
 .demo-surface-variable {
   display: inline-block;
   font-family: monospace;
-  background: var(--mat-app-surface-dim);
+  background: var(--mat-app-primary-container);
+  color: var(--mat-app-on-primary-container);
   padding: 2px 6px;
   margin: 0 2px;
   border-radius: 4px;
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ a {
 mat-expansion-panel {
   margin-top: 24px;
   overflow: visible;
-  @include material.expansion-overrides((
+  @include mat.expansion-overrides((
     'container-text-font': var(--mat-app-body-medium-font),
     'container-text-size': var(--mat-app-body-medium-size),
     'container-text-weight': var(--mat-app-body-medium-weight),
@@ -165,6 +166,9 @@ mat-expansion-panel {
   display: flex;
   align-items: center;
   justify-content: center;
+  background: var(--mat-app-surface-container);
+  color: var(--mat-app-on-surface);
+  border-radius: var(--mat-app-corner-extra-small);
 }
 
 .demo-code-block {
@@ -173,3 +177,20 @@ mat-expansion-panel {
   border-radius: var(--mat-app-corner-small);
   border: 1px solid var(--mat-app-outline);
 }
+
+.demo-overrides {
+  background-color: var(--mat-app-primary);
+  color: var(--mat-app-on-primary);
+  font: var(--mat-app-body-medium);
+  border-radius: var(--mat-app-corner-large);
+  box-shadow: var(--mat-app-level3);
+  padding: 16px;
+
+  @include mat.theme-overrides((
+    primary: #ebdcff,
+    on-primary: #230f46,
+    body-medium: 600 1.5rem / 2.25rem Arial,
+    corner-large: 32px,
+    level3: 0 4px 6px 1px var(--mat-app-surface-dim),
+  ));
+}
diff --git a/src/material/_index.scss b/src/material/_index.scss
index 3278a881b836..91e90ff18ba9 100644
--- a/src/material/_index.scss
+++ b/src/material/_index.scss
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 @forward './core/tokens/m2' show m2-tokens-from-theme;
 @forward './core/tokens/m3-system' show system-level-colors,
     system-level-typography, system-level-elevation, system-level-shape,
-    system-level-motion, system-level-state, theme;
+    system-level-motion, system-level-state, theme, theme-overrides;
 
 // Private/Internal
 @forward './core/density/private/all-density' show all-component-densities;
diff --git a/src/material/core/tokens/_m3-system.scss b/src/material/core/tokens/_m3-system.scss
index d3768927874a..70d874aaa94f 100644
--- a/src/material/core/tokens/_m3-system.scss
+++ b/src/material/core/tokens/_m3-system.scss
@@ -84,6 +84,25 @@ $_system-level-prefix: sys;
   @include system-level-state($overrides: $overrides, $prefix: $_system-fallback-prefix);
 }
 
+/// Emits the system-level CSS variables for each of the provided override values. E.g. to
+/// change the primary color to red, use `mat.theme-overrides((primary: red));`
+@mixin theme-overrides($overrides, $prefix: $_system-fallback-prefix) {
+  $sys-names: map-merge-all(
+      definitions.md-sys-color-values-light(),
+      definitions.md-sys-typescale-values(),
+      definitions.md-sys-elevation-values(),
+      definitions.md-sys-shape-values(),
+      definitions.md-sys-state-values());
+
+  & {
+    @each $name, $value in $overrides {
+      @if (map.has-key($sys-names, $name)) {
+        --#{$prefix}-#{$name}: #{map.get($overrides, $name)};
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 @mixin system-level-colors($theme, $overrides: (), $prefix: null) {
   $palettes: map.get($theme, _mat-theming-internals-do-not-access, palettes);
   $base-palettes: (
@@ -226,3 +245,12 @@ $_system-level-prefix: sys;
       m3-tokens.generate-density-tokens(0)
   );
 }
+
+/// Creates a single merged map from the provided variable-length map arguments
+@function map-merge-all($maps...) {
+  $result: ();
+  @each $map in $maps {
+    $result: map.merge($result, $map);
+  }
+  @return $result;
+}