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Re: Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

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Post by martythemaniak »

wpm wrote: post #28
martythemaniak wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, hence why it's called "Neo-brutalist" and not "brutalist". It's not just plain un-styled html.

Neo doesn't mean it can just be a completely different thing, it means its a modern take on the same thing from before but slightly evolved. Neo-Classicism still looks like Classicism. Neo Nazis are still Nazis. If I create something called Neo-Cuisine, you'd expect the result to be edible. If I see something calling itself "Neo-Brutalist Architecture", I'd expect it to look like Brutalism, or have some hallmark of t…

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.

Re: Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

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Post by riversflow »

nzeid wrote: post #25
netsharc wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

FWIW, from the OP website: > Neobrutalism is a mix of regular brutalism in web design and more modern typography, illustration, and animation standards. Neobrutalism refuses the usual components of UX-UI design and embraces uncomfortable design elements, and it is more fearless to use distinctive color palettes.

nothing about this is neobrutalist by their own standards. There is nothing “uncomfortable” about these standard round flat shapes, and unvibrant 3/4 saturated tones, they aren’t distinct, its called Alegria[1], calling it neobrutalism is a corruption of the meaning of brutalism and comes off as distinctly uncultured.

neobrutalism should have sharp edges, very vibrant saturated colors, and virtually none of these flowery spiral shapes. (neo)brutalism is forcing a square peg in a round hole with a hammer, and leaving it like that on purpose, because the raw swedge is the aethetic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Re: Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

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Post by lioeters »

rodolphoarruda wrote: post #22

Is there a pure CSS or CSS + JS alternative that does not rely on React?

I wish. React + Tailwind as the commonly accepted default is too bad, it sacrifices portability for convenience. It's legacy code in the making, like jQuery and Bootstrap.

Re: Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

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Post by twochillin »

bradly wrote: post #8

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.

There's two definitions of brutalist web design. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42027654#42028919

Re: Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

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Post by bradly »

martythemaniak wrote: post #16
bradly wrote: post #8

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.

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.

Re: Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

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Post by tolerance »

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>

Re: Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

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Post by elevaet »

whalesalad wrote: post #27
bradly wrote: post #8

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.

I would call this bauhaus not neobrutalism.

Neobrutalism has been around long enough as a web style (ca. 2021?) that the name has already stuck, but you're totally right.
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