Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Neubrutalism: Divide into clear boxes; shadows in one direction
- Type
- Set in Neubrutalism's manner (Bold sans, monospace), and let Web Brutalism's lettering (Keep the default face and push only the headings to full page width) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Neubrutalism's material (Off-white plus vivid color, black borders, few rounded corners); bring in exactly one thing from Web Brutalism (White or one flat ground, images left compressed and placed at actual size).
- Colour
- Build on #f2e9d8, #ff645a, #1b1b18 and admit one accent from #ffffff, #0000ee, #000000.
Where they fight
- Neubrutalism and Web Brutalism both belong to UI Expression, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Neubrutalism Don't border and shadow everything. Vary the strength by hierarchy.
- Web Brutalism Tidying only the margins and line lengths while posing as the browser default makes the plainness read as staging, and readers quit while still hunting for a reason behind the mess.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Neubrutalism (style, 2010s–) and their accent from Web Brutalism (style, 2014–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Neubrutalism exists for: making a product frank and memorable, or humanity for communities and creator tools. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Neubrutalism - Thick black borders - Hard shadows - Vivid color - Flat components Composition: Divide into clear boxes; shadows in one direction. Type and lettering: Bold sans, monospace. ## Accent comes from Web Brutalism, used sparingly - Default headings and links - Blue underlined links - Extreme jumps in size - Rules and white space without ornament Let one material quality come from it: White or one flat ground, images left compressed and placed at actual size. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #f2e9d8, carry the structure in #ff645a and #1b1b18, and let a single accent come from #0000ee. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: play, rebellion, trust. ## Where they fight - Neubrutalism and Web Brutalism both belong to UI Expression, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable. ## What goes wrong - Neubrutalism: Don't border and shadow everything. Vary the strength by hierarchy. - Web Brutalism: Tidying only the margins and line lengths while posing as the browser default makes the plainness read as staging, and readers quit while still hunting for a reason behind the mess. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Neubrutalism 2010s– / Style / UI Expression
Rebels warmly against the over-polished web with thick borders and blunt color.
- Web Brutalism 2014– / Style / UI Expression
Puts the browser's default rendering straight on screen and refuses the finished look of templates. The bare structure of the HTML becomes the style itself.
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