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Is a dark mode available? That's the bit I struggle the most with this style.
As a style that requires bright contrasting borders and heavy shadows, this is not particularly pleasant as a dark theme. See the “Hardbrut” in dark mode, posted elsewhere in this thread. The white “shadows” are an eye sore.
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It's a niche and not super-well defined, but definitely existing style, ie: https://neubrutalism.com/ Broadly, it's a move away from flat, low contrast Material-type UIs and also away from the 'gradients and curves' AI-era designs and back into something that's more like the early web.
Interesting. I had thought my own web site ( https://bradlyfeeley.com ) was neo-brutalist, so I was taken back by how different this design was from my own.
Edit: I just saw another person say this, and it described the style of the sample sites so much better than "neobrutalism" that I just had to add this, these samples look so much more like Bauhaus!
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It's a visual style, yet all your criticisms are about under-the-hood technicalities. The style I use for my personal projects ( https://frost-e.com/design-system/ ) is a single css file, but looks similar. Nothing is stopping you from applying this visual style to plain HTML components.
>It's a visual style, yet all your criticisms are about under-the-hood technicalities the very point of brutalism is to turn its material 'inside out', what defines brutalism is that it makes the material and structural elements it's made of visible. It's not a 'visual style' or an aesthetic at all but an 'ethic of construction' something was brutalist if it was honest, and exposed, what a thing was made of. If you w…
If you look at brutalist buildings, it becomes obvious that its looks are the results of intentional design completely removed from its underlying "structural" concerns. You don't accidentally arrive there by refusing to think about aesthetics or by just being "honest".
Really unfortunate how much I immediately associate this with vibe coded sites. So many models trend to this exact neobrutalist style when any semblance of Swiss design or minimalism is mentioned in the prompt. However, I really do like how the style looks on some sites, like in https://www.not-ship.com/united-nations-map/ which was on HN earlier.
This is actually "Post-Corporate Memphis". Says me. These pages are closer to "neobrutalism" or what I would call "Cybermod" [0], I think... https://webb.page > https://garden.bradwoods.io > [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415330 >
Maybe also could be described as Post Layervault as I don’t recall a website using so many primary colors and flat shading before they made it cool.
…and I thought I was clever when I designed https://poolometer.com to look kind a 1990s summer party / Memphis design
I enjoy the look of these, but personally I wouldn't have thought to describe them as neobrutalist, so I'm thinking I don't know what it is. How is brutalism defined in this context? When I think web brutalism I think Craigslist style sites and reduction of superfluous design elements.
Yeah, I can't stand these influencer-wannabe web-devs misusing terms. béton brut means "raw concrete" in French, and in architecture that's what brutalism is. I'd say only sites that look like they use the default style of HTML with no CSS on Netscape 1.x could be called "brutalist"... E.g. https://stallman.org IMO the design is more "Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand Theme" https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-win…
Constantly reminded why I gladly left the design space, can't stand people who think design should be siloed or interpreted this way.
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>It's a visual style, yet all your criticisms are about under-the-hood technicalities the very point of brutalism is to turn its material 'inside out', what defines brutalism is that it makes the material and structural elements it's made of visible. It's not a 'visual style' or an aesthetic at all but an 'ethic of construction' something was brutalist if it was honest, and exposed, what a thing was made of. If you w…
Brutalism is absolutely a visual style. It's an architectural style artificially designed to look drab, raw and ugly. If you look at brutalist buildings, it becomes obvious that its looks are the results of intentional design completely removed from its underlying "structural" concerns. You don't accidentally arrive there by refusing to think about aesthetics or by just being "honest".
What brutalists meant when they talked about honesty or the ethic of design is that the building should reflect on the outside, its construction, its social purpose, and its function. Obviously that's a visual choice, but not an aesthetic one.
And the fact that so many people, including you reach for the description of it as 'ugly' proves that point. They weren't trying to appeal to some established notion of taste, or some aesthetic school that prioritizes the appearance of a thing over its function but the opposite.
This is actually "Post-Corporate Memphis". Says me. These pages are closer to "neobrutalism" or what I would call "Cybermod" [0], I think... https://webb.page > https://garden.bradwoods.io > [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415330 >
Those two websites have nothing in common. “Neobrutalism” might be wrong in concept, but it was coined around 2023, that ship has sailed.
> “Neobrutalism” might be wrong in concept, but it was coined around 2023, that ship has sailed.
Who cares. It's 2026. All it takes to sink a sailing ship is a few determined gents in a motorboat. It's called Post-Corporate Memphis!