Glitch vs Web 1.0
グリッチ / ウェブ1.0
Glitch comes from UI Expression and Web 1.0 from Digital Retro. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Glitch
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Refuses to hide error and corruption, exposing the fragility of the digital medium itself.
Web 1.0
Reuses the naivety of the constrained early web as directness and charm. In the 2020s it came back as a movement to take the personal site back, gathering under names like Neocities and Yesterweb.
| Glitch | Web 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | digital | 1990s |
| Family | UI Expression | Digital Retro |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Channel shift / Block noise / Scanlines / Dropout | Blue links / Low-res GIFs / System fonts / Plain buttons |
| Best used for | Expressing uncertainty and system failure · A jolt of tension in music and video | Showing affection for internet culture · An unpolished, approachable feel |
| Type | Partially corrupt a monospace or plain sans | System sans and monospace |
| Composition | Build the healthy composition first, then break part of it | Left-aligned, borders, table-like division |
| Material | RGB shift, compression noise, missing pieces | White background, blue links, dithered images |
| Caution | Perpetual glitch loses meaning. Stage the difference between normal and broken. | Don't regress actual accessibility. Separate the look from interaction quality. |