External catalogue coverage
A public ledger of what IndexStyle found in major external catalogues, what became an independent entry, what was merged, and what did not pass the editorial standard.
How this is used
Coverage is not a completion score and an external list is not copied wholesale. Every candidate must pass the same five gates. Similar names are merged before new entries are created; broad themes, materials, methods and UI patterns remain separate from styles.
CARI catalogue: all 90 decisions
CARI documents consumer aesthetics. IndexStyle includes only candidates with a named lineage, repeatable visual cues, multiple real uses, a reproducible recipe and a boundary against neighboring styles.
The names and source links below document research coverage. IndexStyle does not reproduce CARI's descriptions or images.
Snapshot: 2026-08-23 / Source items: 90 / Reviewed decisions: 90
- 49 Included
- 23 Merged
- 0 Supporting term
- 0 Candidate
- 8 Hold
- 10 Excluded
| Name | Decision | Reason | IndexStyle entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acidgrafix | Merged | A graphic-era label already covered by Acid's typographic and print grammar. | acid |
| Airbrush Surrealism | Included | Distinct airbrush technique, impossible spatial logic and a documented commercial lineage. | airbrush-surrealism |
| Austurbane | Merged | Its restrained upscale consumer grammar is covered by Minimalism; the retired Luxury Minimal label did not have a strong enough independent boundary. | minimalism |
| Blob World | Included | Soft-body 3D behavior and tactile rendering form a repeatable cross-media grammar. | blob-world |
| Boho-Chic | Included | FIT and V&A fashion histories support a named 2000s festival-fashion lineage; the entry separates commercial revival from hippie culture and requires provenance for borrowed motifs. | boho-chic |
| Bubblegum Bling | Merged | Its pink, rhinestone and celebrity-display grammar is a close subset of McBling. | mcbling |
| Cassette Futurism | Included | Already documented as a stable analog-electronic future language. | cassette-futurism |
| Contempo Eclectic | Hold | The source describes an intentional mixture and still marks the namesake as pending; hold until a stable grammar separates it from general 1980s eclecticism. | — |
| Corporate Cyberspace | Included | Corporate information order and 1990s digital experimentation coexist in a stable grammar. | corporate-cyberspace |
| Corporate Grunge | Included | Commercial legibility provides a clear boundary from underground Grunge. | corporate-grunge |
| Corporate Hippie | Merged | Corporate appropriation is a usage history of Hippie and Psychedelic visual grammar, not a materially separate lineage. | psychedelic |
| Corporate Memphis | Included | Already documented as a recognizable cross-company illustration language. | corporate-memphis |
| Corporate Scene | Hold | CARI marks the foundation as pending research; hold until the lineage and boundaries from adjacent corporate vector families are documented. | — |
| Corporate Synthwave | Merged | Corporate use does not materially change Synthwave's grid, sunset and neon grammar. | synthwave |
| Corporate Vaporwave | Merged | A usage context within Vaporwave rather than a distinct visual lineage. | vaporwave |
| Curly Girly | Included | A named late-1990s to mid-2000s retail language with repeatable curled lettering, icons, color and product applications. | curly-girly |
| Cyberbougie | Excluded | The source itself groups Corporate Memphis, Fluent, Glassmorphism and Neumorphism under the label; it is an umbrella for existing styles rather than one independent grammar. | — |
| Cyberdelia | Included | Fractals, early CGI and psychedelic immersion create a distinct period language. | cyberdelia |
| Deco-Luxe | Included | Its dark mirrored 1980s material system separates it from historical Art Deco. | deco-luxe |
| Decoplex | Included | The third-wave revival has a repeatable entertainment-architecture grammar distinct from Deco-Luxe. | decoplex |
| Diner Kitsch | Included | A documented post-1970s revival compresses diner architecture, signs, furnishings and media iconography into a repeatable commercial stage. | diner-kitsch |
| Disco Deco | Included | Deco geometry and symmetry recur across disco graphics, interiors and light-responsive materials with a clear boundary from historical Art Deco. | disco-deco |
| Dollar Store Vernacular | Excluded | A retail condition and quality register, not one stable visual grammar. | — |
| Early Cyber | Included | Period tools, resolution and transformations create a reproducible pre-polished digital language. | early-cyber |
| Eco-Beige | Included | Materials, palette and early environmental branding form a bounded period style. | eco-beige |
| Electroclash | Included | The scene's fashion, hard-flash photography, makeup, club graphics and analog-electronic revival form a reproducible visual language beyond the music genre. | electroclash |
| Factory Pomo | Included | Factory signs, safety color, postmodern quotation and early-CAD geometry form a bounded late-1980s to early-1990s spatial and graphic grammar. | factory-pomo |
| Festival Marketplace | Included | Signage, carts and pedestrian sequence form a reproducible postmodern commercial-space grammar. | festival-marketplace |
| Four Colors | Excluded | A palette constraint can be applied to unrelated styles and is not an independent lineage. | — |
| Frasurbane | Included | Serif editorial order and restrained grunge displacement define a specific 1990s language. | frasurbane |
| Frutiger Aero | Included | Already documented as a broad 2000s eco-tech consumer language. | frutiger-aero |
| Gay Nineties Revival | Included | A named 1960s–70s revival has a stable hospitality grammar of warm color, heavy period lettering, brass, wood, glass and ferns. | gay-nineties-revival |
| Genericana | Included | Its repeatable premium-brand grammar is bounded as generalized American commercial nostalgia, with documented provenance kept separate from invented heritage. | genericana |
| Gen-X Home | Merged | The domestic branch is covered by the broader Gen X Soft Club consumer language. | gen-x-soft-club |
| Gen X Soft Club | Included | Already documented with a stable late-1990s material and consumer grammar. | gen-x-soft-club |
| Global Village Coffeehouse | Included | Hand-drawn globalism, coffeehouse culture and early-network optimism recur across media. | global-village-coffeehouse |
| Googie Kitsch | Merged | Kitsch does not create a separate grammar beyond documented Googie commercial architecture and signs. | googie |
| Graffiti Pop | Included | Corporate advertising repeatedly turned graffiti marks and period streetscape props into a readable Pop product stage; the entry preserves authorship and sanitization as explicit critical boundaries. | graffiti-pop |
| Groovival | Merged | The same rounded type, warm palette and groovy commercial revival are already covered by Seventies Retro. | seventies-retro |
| Hexatron | Included | TRON: Legacy production analysis and later science-fiction interfaces corroborate a repeatable 2010s grammar of hexagons, angular panels, cyan light and holographic depth. | hexatron |
| Hipness Purgatory | Excluded | A useful critical label for a social and market condition, but not a stable visual lineage with a reproducible grammar. | — |
| Indiecraft | Hold | CARI currently describes the category as pending research; hold until provenance and a boundary from generic handmade branding are established. | — |
| Indie Sleaze | Included | Nightlife, compact-camera flash and blog circulation define a repeatable scene language. | indie-sleaze |
| Industrial Americana | Included | 1990s graphic practice, industrial clip art, paper promotion and reused-factory materials create a repeatable language distinct from generic industrial décor. | industrial-americana |
| Industrial Gothic | Included | Dark machine environments, functional pipes and cables, distressed material and fragmentary light form a consistent industrial sublime without Gothic-revival ornament. | industrial-gothic |
| Internet Awesomesauce | Hold | The label and examples are unusually unstable; hold until the period boundary and independent use are clearer. | — |
| Jumbled Font | Excluded | Mixing letterforms is a lettering technique that can be applied to unrelated styles, not an independent lineage. | — |
| Laser Grid | Merged | The laser horizon and perspective grid are core Synthwave cues, not a separate lineage. | synthwave |
| Live Laugh Love | Excluded | A phrase-led decor market category whose products use many unrelated rustic and typographic treatments, not one visual lineage. | — |
| McBling | Included | Logo display, celebrity culture and rhinestone material distinguish it from Y2K futurism. | mcbling |
| Memphis Jr. | Merged | A softened commercial descendant that does not need a second entry beside Memphis and Corporate Memphis. | memphis |
| Memphis-Milano | Merged | An alternate name and geographic qualifier for the existing Memphis entry. | memphis |
| Metalheart | Included | Already documented as a distinct heavy chrome and cyber-organic Y2K language. | metalheart |
| Mid Century Medieval | Hold | The revival phenomenon is real, but the source marks its name and foundation as pending; hold until the broad mix of fairs, suburban Tudor architecture and fantasy media can support one bounded recipe. | — |
| Millennium Disco | Included | White and silver technical materials, geometric club typography and flash photography create a specific turn-of-the-millennium boundary from Disco Deco and McBling. | millennium-disco |
| Mission School | Hold | CARI marks this scene as pending research and potentially subject to reclassification; hold until its scope and lineage stabilize. | — |
| Neoclassical Pomo | Merged | A recognizable branch, but its quotation of historical columns and pediments is already central to Postmodern Architecture's broader grammar. | postmodern-architecture |
| Neon Ooze | Excluded | CARI describes a recurring neon-fluid motif; a motif can travel across unrelated visual languages and does not support a full independent entry. | — |
| Neo-Vectorheart | Merged | A later revival belongs in Vectorheart's chronology rather than as a duplicate entry. | vectorheart |
| Neo-Y2K | Merged | A revival phase belongs in Y2K's chronology unless it develops a materially different grammar. | y2k |
| New Wave Tropical | Included | Pacific Punk Wave structure, cut-paper color fields and tropical imagery recur as a bounded commercial grammar; the entry explicitly requires provenance for culture-specific motifs. | new-wave-tropical |
| Nouveau Organic | Included | Named late-20th-century designers repeatedly turn Art Nouveau and organic-architecture sources into structural furniture, lighting and interiors rather than applied vine ornament. | nouveau-organic |
| Nu-Brutalism | Merged | A spelling and period variant of the existing Neubrutalism entry. | neubrutalism |
| Pacific Punk Wave | Included | A documented regional collision of Swiss order, punk and Radical design. | pacific-punk-wave |
| Paperback Chic | Included | Publishing hierarchy and cut-paper illustration form a repeatable contemporary brand grammar. | paperback-chic |
| Pastel Southwestern | Included | A bounded 1980s–90s interior grammar of pastel domestic color, adobe-like curves, light wood and plush furniture can be documented without operationalizing Indigenous motifs. | pastel-southwestern |
| Pixelscape | Included | Isometric pixel worlds integrated with navigation form a distinct early-web style. | pixelscape |
| Polychrome | Excluded | A condition of using many colors across many periods and media, not one named visual lineage. | — |
| Pomo Faux Ruins | Merged | Faux fragments and ruins are a recurring device within Postmodern Architecture rather than a complete independent grammar. | postmodern-architecture |
| Preschool Pop | Hold | CARI marks the category as pending research; hold until a stable visual lineage can be separated from the preschool market segment. | — |
| Pulp Fantasy | Merged | The recurring cover composition and lettering belong to the existing Pulp Cover entry; fantasy subject matter does not create a second style. | pulp-cover |
| Rad Dog / Neon Surf | Included | Late-1980s surf, skate, apparel and equipment repeatedly share fluorescent splatter, cartoon mascots and layered slanted lettering; the entry excludes unprovenanced Indigenous and Pacific forms. | rad-dog-neon-surf |
| Radical Surrealism | Merged | The oversized Pop objects and deliberately irrational environments belong to the documented Italian Radical Design lineage rather than a second independent style. | radical-architecture |
| Renaissance Revival | Included | Restricting the category to the 1990s reveals a repeatable cross-media grammar across fairs, fantasy, publishing, runway and formal dress, with anachronism as an explicit boundary from the historical Renaissance. | renaissance-revival |
| Silicon Dreams | Included | Late-1980s to late-1990s early 3D animation has a stable grammar of primitive geometry, morphing, low polygons, reflective surfaces and floating cameras. | silicon-dreams |
| Soft Colonial Wanderlust | Excluded | The category packages colonial nostalgia and culturally borrowed signs as a neutral recipe; IndexStyle will not operationalize it that way. | — |
| Sportsbrut | Included | Competitive data, bodies and brutalist structure create a distinct sports-graphic system. | sportsbrut |
| Superflat Pop | Merged | Pop is already integral to Superflat's documented high-art and consumer-culture boundary. | superflat |
| Supergraphic Ultramodern | Merged | Large environmental color bands are the defining operation of the existing Supergraphics entry, not a separate lineage. | supergraphics |
| Themed Spaces | Excluded | A broad design category covering unrelated themes and appearances, not one visual style. | — |
| Ultramodern Revival | Included | A late-1990s to mid-2000s revival joins 1970s white molded interiors and supergraphics to digital gloss across retail, clubs and advertising. | ultramodern-revival |
| Urban Grunge | Merged | Its distressed urban material and typography are an environmental application of Grunge rather than a separate lineage. | grunge |
| Utopian Scholastic | Included | Encyclopedias, educational CD-ROMs and institutional media repeatedly share specimen cut-outs, classical type, DTP collage and an optimistic knowledge hierarchy. | utopian-scholastic |
| Vectorheart | Included | Angular vectors, technical labels and unified direction form a repeatable Y2K graphic system. | vectorheart |
| Vector Minimalism | Merged | The existing Flat Design entry explicitly includes Vector Minimalism as its paired name. | flat-design |
| Wacky Pomo | Included | A repeatable 1990s children's commercial grammar combines postmodern geometry, cartoon machinery, distorted lettering and gross-out humor; the entry adds an explicit promotion-safety boundary. | wacky-pomo |
| Whimsicraft | Included | Found-object construction, folk simplification, asymmetric handwork and narrative retail applications form a repeatable craft language with provenance limits. | whimsicraft |
| Whimsigothic | Included | Celestial motifs, curved dark materials and jewel color form a bounded 1990s consumer style. | whimsigothic |
| Y2K Aesthetic | Included | The source label maps directly to the existing Y2K entry. | y2k |
| Zen-X | Hold | CARI marks both the research and final name as pending; hold until the category stabilizes and separates from Gen X Soft Club and Eco-Beige. | — |
MoMA Art Terms: 78 style and movement decisions
MoMA's current index contains 359 materials, techniques, movements and themes. IndexStyle reviewed the 78 names that could plausibly denote a style or movement; the other 281 remain non-style source vocabulary rather than being treated as failed style candidates.
MoMA's index currently reports 359 terms. This table reviews the 78 plausible style or movement names; the other 281 materials, techniques, media and themes are not miscounted as failed styles.
Snapshot: 2026-08-23 / Source items: 359 / Reviewed decisions: 78
- 52 Included
- 17 Merged
- 6 Supporting term
- 3 Excluded
| Name | Decision | Reason | IndexStyle entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Expressionism | Included | An established movement already covered with its broad action and color-field branches. | abstract-expressionism |
| Action painting | Included | A bounded gestural branch whose bodily sequence and gravity separate it from Color Field painting. | action-painting |
| Afrofuturism | Included | A documented speculative Black visual lineage already covered independently. | afrofuturism |
| AIDS activism | Merged | A broad activist field; its most stable reproducible graphic grammar is covered by ACT UP Graphics. | act-up-graphics |
| Art Nouveau | Included | A named cross-media style already covered. | art-nouveau |
| Arte Povera | Included | A named movement with repeatable material and installation grammar. | arte-povera |
| Arts and Crafts | Included | A named design movement already covered across object, print and interior work. | arts-and-crafts |
| Assemblage | Supporting term | A construction method shared by unrelated visual languages, retained as searchable vocabulary. | assemblage |
| Bauhaus | Included | A documented school and design language already covered. | bauhaus |
| Biomorphic | Merged | An adjectival form of the existing Biomorphism entry. | biomorphism |
| Black Arts movement | Merged | The movement contains several media and appearances; AfriCOBRA records one stable visual branch without reducing the whole movement to a recipe. | africobra |
| Arte concreto (Brazilian Concrete art) | Merged | A regional history recorded inside Concrete Art and compared directly with Neo-Concrete Art. | concrete-art |
| Brutalist Architecture | Included | A bounded architectural language already covered. | brutalist-architecture |
| Circle and Square | Merged | An artist group whose shared geometric program is covered by Geometric Abstraction rather than duplicated as an institution. | geometric-abstraction |
| Classicism | Merged | An unusually broad historical umbrella; the reproducible revival grammar is covered by Neoclassicism. | neoclassicism |
| CoBrA | Included | A short named movement with a distinct rough, primary-color language. | cobra |
| Color Field painting | Included | A distinct branch of postwar abstraction already covered. | color-field-painting |
| Conceptual art | Included | A documented art movement whose linguistic and procedural presentation is already covered. | conceptual-art |
| Concrete art | Included | Measurable relations among line, plane and color form a repeatable grammar distinct from expressive abstraction. | concrete-art |
| Constructivism | Included | A named art and design movement already covered. | constructivism |
| Critical design | Supporting term | A critical framing method whose appearance changes with the issue being examined. | critical-design |
| Cubism | Included | A foundational modern-art style already covered. | cubism |
| Dada | Included | A named movement with a documented anti-art and collage grammar. | dada |
| de Stijl | Included | A named geometric movement already covered. | de-stijl |
| Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) | Included | Its color resonance, animal imagery and path toward abstraction form a bounded Expressionist language. | der-blaue-reiter |
| Die Brücke (The Bridge) | Included | Woodcut resistance, angular contour and urban bodies separate it from the Blue Rider. | die-brucke |
| Direct Cinema | Included | Portable synchronous sound, observational distance and restrained narration form a reproducible film language. | direct-cinema |
| Documentary photography | Merged | A broad genre rather than one look; FSA Documentary records a bounded public-documentary lineage. | fsa-documentary |
| Earthwork | Included | A named land-based movement already covered. | earthwork |
| Expressionism | Included | A broad but recognisable modern-art language already covered with narrower branches. | expressionism |
| Farm Security Administration (FSA) | Included | A bounded documentary program with a stable visual and archival practice. | fsa-documentary |
| Fauvism | Included | A named color-led movement already covered. | fauvism |
| Feminist art | Supporting term | A vital political field spanning many media and appearances, retained without forcing one visual recipe. | feminist-art |
| Fluxus | Included | A named network with a stable event-score and low-cost multiple grammar. | fluxus |
| Folk art | Excluded | A broad attribution category spanning unrelated communities, periods and appearances, not one lineage IndexStyle can safely operationalize. | — |
| Futurism | Merged | The MoMA umbrella maps to the existing historical Italian Futurism entry rather than later future-themed styles. | italian-futurism |
| Generative art | Included | A rule-based visual practice already covered, with its method and recurring outputs documented together. | generative-art |
| Geometric abstraction | Included | A useful upper-level visual family with stable geometry, boundary and rule-based composition. | geometric-abstraction |
| Good Design | Merged | MoMA's program shaped postwar modern products, but its appearance is covered by Mid-century and broader functional modernism. | mid-century |
| Guerrilla television | Included | Portable video, counter-broadcast circulation and visible transmission artifacts form a bounded media language. | guerrilla-television |
| Happenings | Merged | An event mode strongly represented in Fluxus; the mode alone does not fix one appearance. | fluxus |
| Harlem Renaissance | Included | A documented cultural movement already covered with visual boundaries and historical context. | harlem-renaissance |
| Indigenism | Merged | An English naming variant of the existing Indigenismo entry. | indigenismo |
| Institutional critique | Supporting term | A research and intervention method whose form varies from documents to tours and installations. | institutional-critique |
| International Style | Included | A named architectural language already covered. | international-style |
| Kinetic art | Included | Actual or perceptual movement forms a distinct documented visual system. | kinetic-art |
| Mail art | Included | Postal format, transit traces, reply and circulation form a reproducible network-art grammar. | mail-art |
| Merz | Included | A named practice with a stable found-paper and typographic grammar. | merz |
| Metabolist architecture | Included | A named architectural movement already covered. | metabolist-architecture |
| Mexican muralism | Included | A documented public-art movement already covered. | mexican-muralism |
| Minimalism | Included | A named cross-media style already covered. | minimalism |
| Neo-concrete art | Included | A distinct participatory response to Concrete Art already covered. | neo-concrete-art |
| Neo-Impressionism | Included | A named optical-color movement already covered. | neo-impressionism |
| Neo-plasticism | Merged | The theory and visual program are integral to the existing De Stijl entry. | de-stijl |
| Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) | Merged | The broad movement maps to the existing bounded photographic branch for visual use. | new-objectivity-photography |
| New Topographics | Included | A named photographic movement already covered. | new-topographics |
| New York School | Merged | A scene and umbrella whose central visual movement is covered by Abstract Expressionism. | abstract-expressionism |
| Op art | Included | A named optical style already covered. | op-art |
| Orphism | Included | A named color-led Cubist branch already covered. | orphism |
| Participatory art | Supporting term | Participation defines authority and process but can produce many unrelated appearances. | participatory-art |
| Photo-Secession | Merged | The group's visual program is covered by Pictorialism rather than duplicated as an institution. | pictorialism |
| Pictorialism | Included | A named photographic movement already covered. | pictorialism |
| Pictures Generation | Included | Rephotography, reenactment, cropping and appropriation form a bounded postmodern image language. | pictures-generation |
| Pointillism | Merged | A technique and common label inside the broader Neo-Impressionist movement. | neo-impressionism |
| Pop art | Included | A named movement already covered. | pop-art |
| Post-Impressionism | Included | A documented historical style already covered. | post-impressionism |
| Postmodernism | Merged | A spelling variant of the existing broad design entry. | post-modernism |
| Radical Architecture | Included | A named critical design movement already covered. | radical-architecture |
| Rayonism | Included | A short but distinct named abstract movement already covered. | rayonism |
| Relational aesthetics | Supporting term | A theory centered on temporary social relations rather than one formal language. | relational-aesthetics |
| Return to order (rappel à l'ordre) | Included | Postwar classicizing contour and stability form a documented interwar visual boundary. | return-to-order |
| Social realism | Included | A named politically engaged realist movement already covered. | social-realism |
| Suprematism | Included | A named geometric abstract movement already covered. | suprematism |
| Surrealism | Included | A named movement already covered. | surrealism |
| Symbolism | Included | A named historical movement already covered. | symbolism |
| The Kamoinge Workshop | Excluded | An important photographic collective, but institutional membership does not define one reproducible appearance across its members. | — |
| Vorticism | Included | A named British avant-garde movement already covered. | vorticism |
| Young British Artists | Excluded | A scene and market label spanning deliberately different media and appearances, not one stable visual grammar. | — |
Web Design Museum: all 33 Graphic styles filters
The gallery currently exposes 33 Graphic styles filters across 7,943 archived examples. IndexStyle reviews the filter vocabulary itself: named visual languages may map to entries, while years, media, materials, adjectives and interface patterns remain separate layers.
This is an example-archive taxonomy, not a glossary. Screenshot totals document recurrence; they never create one style per website or authorize image reuse.
Snapshot: 2026-08-23 / Source items: 33 / Reviewed decisions: 33
- 5 Included
- 2 Merged
- 1 Supporting term
- 1 Hold
- 24 Excluded
| Name | Decision | Reason | IndexStyle entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creative | Excluded | A subjective quality label that can describe unrelated visual languages. | — |
| Futuristic | Excluded | A broad intent spanning many periods and styles, not one lineage. | — |
| Illustration | Excluded | A medium containing many independent styles. | — |
| Pixel Design | Merged | The filter maps to the existing Pixel Art grammar; web use is an application, not a second lineage. | pixel-art |
| Dark | Supporting term | Darkness is a color mode applicable to unrelated styles, retained in searchable supporting vocabulary. | dark-mode |
| 00s | Excluded | A decade filter, not a visual grammar. | — |
| 90s | Excluded | A decade filter containing many unrelated looks. | — |
| 3 Column Layout | Excluded | A layout pattern that can carry many styles. | — |
| Bento Grid | Included | A named, repeatable web layout language already documented independently. | bento-grid |
| Black and White | Excluded | A palette constraint shared by unrelated styles. | — |
| Clean | Excluded | A quality judgment without a bounded history or recipe. | — |
| Collage | Merged | The visual operation is covered by Photomontage; physical assemblage remains a supporting method. | photomontage |
| Colorful | Excluded | A degree of color use, not a style lineage. | — |
| Flat Design | Included | A named interface language with a documented history and stable cues. | flat-design |
| Funny | Excluded | A tone or response that many styles can produce. | — |
| Gradients | Excluded | A color treatment usable inside many unrelated styles. | — |
| Grunge | Included | A documented graphic lineage already covered beyond the web archive. | grunge |
| Hand-drawn | Excluded | A mark-making treatment spanning many styles and cultures. | — |
| Icons | Excluded | An asset and sign category, not one appearance. | — |
| Iframes | Excluded | An HTML embedding mechanism whose contents can use any style. | — |
| Minimalism | Included | An established cross-media style already represented independently. | minimalism |
| Ornamental | Excluded | A degree of decoration shared across unrelated historical styles. | — |
| Paper | Excluded | A material or screen metaphor, not one visual lineage. | — |
| Pattern | Excluded | A broad structural category containing many distinct pattern traditions. | — |
| Photography | Excluded | A medium containing many photographic styles. | — |
| Retro | Excluded | A relation to an earlier period; it needs a named target era and grammar before becoming a style. | — |
| Techno | Hold | The archive documents a recurring tag, but its boundary from Y2K, Metalheart, Flash-era and generic technological imagery is not yet stable enough. | — |
| Texture | Excluded | A surface treatment that can be applied to unrelated styles. | — |
| Typography | Excluded | A design discipline and medium with many independent typographic styles. | — |
| Unusual Navigation | Excluded | An interaction-pattern judgment, not a stable visual language. | — |
| Video | Excluded | A medium that can carry any of many visual styles. | — |
| Vintage | Excluded | A broad age and market descriptor without a single period grammar. | — |
| Y2K Aesthetic | Included | The named turn-of-the-millennium language maps directly to the existing Y2K entry. | y2k |
FIT Fashion History: 12 textile and silhouette decisions
FIT's current Dictionary contains 119 term definitions. IndexStyle reviewed the 12 names that could plausibly define a repeatable textile or whole-body silhouette system; the other 107 garments, materials, accessories and components remain source vocabulary rather than being inflated into styles.
FIT's current Dictionary has 119 terms. This table reviews the 12 plausible systems; the other 107 garments, materials, accessories and components remain evidence rather than failed styles.
Snapshot: 2026-08-23 / Source items: 119 / Reviewed decisions: 12
- 10 Included
- 1 Merged
- 1 Excluded
| Name | Decision | Reason | IndexStyle entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adinkra | Included | A named Akan sign and textile system already documented from an independent museum source. | adinkra |
| Akwete | Included | Named patterns, supplementary weft, women-led lineage and wrapper use form a bounded textile language. | akwete |
| Bogolanfini | Included | A documented Bamana mud-cloth process and graphic language already covered independently. | bogolanfini |
| Kente | Included | A named Asante and Ewe strip-weaving language already represented with provenance boundaries. | kente |
| Katazome | Merged | The paste-resist printing process and its stencil logic are searchable through the existing Ise Katagami entry rather than duplicated. | katagami |
| Bustle | Included | The rear-focused support reorganizes whole garments across two nineteenth-century periods and has a stable outline distinct from Crinoline. | bustle-silhouette |
| Cage crinoline | Included | A mass-adopted full-circumference support system produces a repeatable bell silhouette across many dresses. | crinoline-silhouette |
| Panniers | Included | Side hoops create a stable lateral silhouette across court and elite dress rather than naming one garment. | pannier-silhouette |
| Spanish farthingale | Included | Its stepped hoop structure produces a bounded conical court silhouette distinct from Pannier and Crinoline. | farthingale-silhouette |
| Robe à la française | Included | Decades of repeated box pleats, stomacher, open skirt and petticoat make this more than an isolated garment record. | robe-a-la-francaise |
| Slashing | Included | Regular cuts exposing a contrasting underlayer form a repeatable surface technique across garments, shoes and revivals. | slashing |
| Particolored | Excluded | Dividing a garment into colors is a treatment shared by unrelated periods and does not establish one lineage by itself. | — |
Aesthetics Wiki Good Articles: all 101 decisions
All 101 article pages returned by the current Good Articles category API were reviewed. The quality badge makes them useful discovery records, but IndexStyle still requires an independent source, a repeatable visual grammar, multiple uses, a recipe and a boundary before creating an entry.
The current category API returns 101 article pages. IndexStyle uses them only as a discovery index, requires a second independent source for inclusion, and does not reproduce wiki prose or images.
Snapshot: 2026-08-23 / Source items: 101 / Reviewed decisions: 101
- 33 Included
- 13 Merged
- 15 Candidate
- 29 Hold
- 11 Excluded
| Name | Decision | Reason | IndexStyle entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s Bright Kawaii | Merged | A decade variant of the existing Kawaii grammar, not a separate lineage. | kawaii |
| 2010s Dark Fandom | Hold | The community label is documented, but its boundary from fandom-specific Goth, Emo and dark edits is not stable yet. | — |
| 2010s Meme Maximalism | Candidate | A recurring screen look is plausible; a dated independent source and a stable boundary from generic meme collage are still required. | — |
| 2010s Soft Kawaii | Merged | Soft color is a variation inside Kawaii rather than a second reproducible system. | kawaii |
| 2014 Girly | Included | An independent Vogue account and a bounded Tumblr-era feed and fashion grammar support the entry. | 2014-tumblr-girl |
| 2020 Alt | Hold | An umbrella for several subcultures and platform looks; it does not yet separate as one grammar. | — |
| 2020s Preppy | Merged | The recurring clothing system is already covered by Ivy Style; the decade tag is a revival layer. | ivy-style |
| 8-Bit | Merged | The visible grammar maps to Pixel Art; bit depth is a technical boundary, not another style page. | pixel-art |
| 80s Workout | Included | Museum evidence confirms a repeatable silhouette, palette, material and media lineage. | 80s-workout-style |
| 90s Cool | Hold | A broad period judgment spanning unrelated editorial, street and product styles. | — |
| Acubi | Included | An independent reported source confirms the muted Y2K layering system and Korean circulation. | acubi |
| Aggrotech | Candidate | Music-scene styling recurs, but a reliable source must separate it from Cybergoth and Industrial. | — |
| Arabfunny | Excluded | A meme format built from cultural stereotypes and unstable source fragments, not a responsible independent style lineage. | — |
| Avant Basic | Included | Architectural Digest documents the Instagram-born interior grammar and its repeated objects. | avant-basic |
| Bravú | Candidate | The Iberian internet-era graphic label needs a stronger independent history and boundary review. | — |
| Bubblegum Dance | Hold | Primarily a music genre; its sleeves and fashion do not yet form one stable cross-artist grammar. | — |
| Buffalo Style | Included | A V&A exhibition-catalogue study documents the collective, its sportswear-tailoring collisions, casting and new image of masculinity as a bounded styling lineage. | buffalo-style |
| Colorful Pop | Hold | A descriptive palette and tone shared by many unrelated pop languages. | — |
| Cottagecore | Included | The named internet aesthetic already has an independently sourced entry and clear rural domestic cues. | cottagecore |
| Cozy Gamer | Excluded | A user identity and mood that can use many room, interface and illustration styles. | — |
| Cutecore | Merged | Its childlike bright objects and stickers overlap the documented Kidcore grammar; cute intensity alone is not a new lineage. | kidcore |
| Cyberdelia | Included | The cyber-psychedelic graphic lineage is already independently documented. | cyberdelia |
| Cybergoth | Included | A museum-backed subcultural fashion with stable silhouette, materials and palette. | cybergoth |
| Cyberpunk | Included | An established cross-media visual language already represented independently. | cyberpunk |
| Cybersigilism | Included | Independent reporting confirms a repeatable tattoo grammar and contemporary practitioner network. | cybersigilism |
| Dark Academia | Included | The existing entry covers its bounded dress, interior and publishing cues. | dark-academia |
| Denpa | Hold | A music and narrative category whose visual output varies too widely for one entry. | — |
| Divine Machinery | Candidate | A recurring online image system may exist, but an independent source and named practitioner lineage are missing. | — |
| Dollette | Hold | A microtrend label with overlap among Coquette, Lolita references and pastel styling; boundaries remain unstable. | — |
| Dungeon Rap | Hold | A music genre whose cover conventions require a cross-label visual study before becoming a style. | — |
| Dungeon Synth | Candidate | Its cover and type conventions recur, but independent design-history evidence is still thin. | — |
| E-Boy | Merged | E-boy and E-girl share a platform-native visual system; gender does not justify duplicate style pages. | e-style |
| E-Girl | Merged | Merged into a gender-expansive E-style entry covering the shared dress, makeup and camera grammar. | e-style |
| Electroclash | Included | The existing entry documents its music, flash-photography and fashion lineage. | electroclash |
| Electronic Body Music | Hold | A music genre with several industrial visual languages rather than one stable appearance. | — |
| Emo | Included | An FIT study supports the music-linked fashion, photography and graphic system. | emo-style |
| Femboy | Excluded | A gender-expression identity; appearance must not be inferred from identity alone. | — |
| Fjortis | Candidate | A regional youth label may contain a dated fashion grammar, but independent Swedish/Nordic sources are required. | — |
| Glitchbreak | Hold | Primarily a music microgenre; its visual boundary from Glitch and breakcore artwork is not stable. | — |
| Goreweb | Hold | A shock-content web label whose visual grammar and ethical reuse boundary remain unclear. | — |
| Goth | Merged | The fashion layer maps to the museum-sourced Goth Fashion entry; Gothic art remains separate. | goth-fashion |
| Grunge | Included | The documented graphic style already covers its print and music-media lineage. | grunge |
| Gurokawa | Included | Independent reporting supports the grotesque-cute contrast as a reproducible system. | gurokawa |
| Hands Up | Hold | A dance-music genre whose artwork does not yet separate from broader Eurodance and club graphics. | — |
| Haunted Mound | Candidate | A collective-specific image system recurs, but one group aesthetic is not yet a broader style lineage. | — |
| Heart Emoji Meme | Excluded | A single meme template and symbol treatment, not a multi-use style lineage. | — |
| Herki | Candidate | The regional fashion label needs independent historical sources and a boundary from neighboring youth styles. | — |
| Hopecore | Hold | Defined chiefly by optimistic content and editing tone, which can use many visual styles. | — |
| Hypebeast | Included | An FIT source supports the drop, collection, styling and display system. | hypebeast-style |
| Indie Kid | Hold | A broad social-media youth label whose cues overlap Kidcore, Twee and 1990s revival. | — |
| Indie Sleaze | Included | The independently sourced flash-photography, fashion and club lineage is already covered. | indie-sleaze |
| Industrial | Hold | A music and cultural field spanning several distinct fashion and graphic languages. | — |
| Italo Disco | Candidate | Recurring sleeve typography and futurist imagery warrant study, but a design-history source is still needed. | — |
| Kawaii Gamer | Merged | Gaming subject matter does not create a separate style beyond Kawaii's established grammar. | kawaii |
| Keller Synth | Hold | A music microgenre with variable lo-fi cover conventions and insufficient independent documentation. | — |
| Kidcore | Included | The existing entry documents its childlike object, color and sticker grammar. | kidcore |
| Krocha | Candidate | A regional youth fashion may be distinct, but German-language institutional or signed evidence is needed. | — |
| Krushclub | Hold | A recent music microgenre whose visuals are still platform- and artist-dependent. | — |
| Lithuanian Eurodisco | Candidate | A regional sleeve-and-stage language is plausible; independent Baltic archive evidence is the next gate. | — |
| Lolicore | Excluded | A music label whose name sexualizes children; IndexStyle will not normalize it as an independent visual style. | — |
| Lolita | Merged | The clothing grammar maps to the independently documented Lolita Fashion entry. | lolita-fashion |
| Mallgoth | Included | Independent fashion reporting supports a bounded mall-retail, Goth and Nu Metal system. | mallgoth |
| Mallsoft | Included | Academic sources support the mall architecture, sound and consumer-memory grammar. | mallsoft |
| Martial Industrial | Hold | A music genre whose militarized imagery varies and requires careful ethical and historical separation. | — |
| Minimal Wave | Candidate | A label and sleeve language may recur, but it needs a source separating it from Minimal Synth and New Wave. | — |
| Necrotrap | Hold | A music microgenre whose horror imagery is not yet a stable cross-artist design grammar. | — |
| Neue Slowenische Kunst | Included | Museum documentation supports its cross-media retro-avant-garde grammar and bounded collective history. | neue-slowenische-kunst |
| New Beat | Included | Design Museum Brussels documents the late-1980s meeting of New Beat, early digital production, flyers, records and label fashion as a bounded Belgian club-graphics lineage. | new-beat-graphics |
| New Rave | Included | An academic fashion study supports the mid-2000s indie-rave palette, silhouette and accessories. | new-rave-style |
| New Wave | Included | The existing entry covers the named music and graphic-design lineage. | new-wave |
| Nostalgiacore | Hold | Nostalgia is an intent applied to many periods; the label does not yet fix one target-era grammar. | — |
| Nu-Metal | Included | Vassar research documents a subgenre-specific dress system of extremely wide jeans, metal–hip-hop hybridization, piercing and suburban retail circulation; Philharmonie de Paris confirms Nu Metal as a distinct historical branch. | nu-metal-style |
| Nymphet | Excluded | A sexualized identity label with unsafe age associations, not an appropriate visual style category. | — |
| Olderbrothercore | Excluded | A person-type stereotype assembled from objects, not a documented visual lineage. | — |
| Partille-Johnny | Candidate | A local youth-fashion history may be bounded, but independent Swedish evidence is required. | — |
| Party Rock | Hold | A performer- and song-era label whose neon party cues overlap several 2010s club styles. | — |
| PEEPS | Excluded | A community or person classification without one visual grammar that can be responsibly inferred. | — |
| Phonk | Hold | A broad music genre with several distinct cover systems, from Memphis revival to drift imagery. | — |
| Punk | Merged | The source's broad label maps to the existing Punk graphic entry; Punk Fashion remains separately scoped. | punk |
| Radical Design | Merged | Italian Radical Design is already covered with Radical Architecture as one documented movement. | radical-architecture |
| Rivethead | Included | Museum at FIT and scholarly subculture histories separate its restrained military-utility and industrial-dance dress from ornate Goth and later fluorescent Cybergoth. | rivethead-style |
| Sadgirl | Hold | An affect and persona spanning unrelated fashion and image languages rather than one lineage. | — |
| Scenecore | Candidate | A visible youth system likely exists, but its boundary from historical Scene, E-style and current microtrend use needs evidence. | — |
| Seapunk | Included | The independently documented aquatic web and music grammar is already covered. | seapunk |
| Shoe Diva | Excluded | A consumer persona centered on one product category, not a cross-use visual style. | — |
| Sigilkore | Hold | Primarily a music tag; its graphic signs overlap Cybersigilism but do not yet establish a separate visual lineage. | — |
| Slavic Doll | Hold | A recent identity-coded microtrend with unstable borders and a risk of cultural stereotyping. | — |
| Sots Art | Included | Museum documentation supports the Soviet Pop-like quotation and parody system. | sots-art |
| Swag | Hold | A broad approval and youth-culture term spanning multiple unrelated fashion periods. | — |
| Synthwave | Included | The existing entry covers its neon-grid, vehicle and retro-future visual grammar. | synthwave |
| Theriancore | Excluded | An identity and community label; no appearance should be inferred from it alone. | — |
| Traumacore | Excluded | A distress-content label that risks aestheticizing trauma and lacks a safe stable visual boundary. | — |
| Vectordelia | Candidate | A named vector-psychedelic look is plausible, but independent historical evidence and practitioner breadth are insufficient. | — |
| VSCO Girl | Included | Independent fashion reporting confirms the bounded object, dress and phone-photo bundle. | vsco-girl |
| Weirdcore | Included | The existing entry documents its low-resolution image, text and spatial-dislocation grammar. | weirdcore |
| Whimsy Twee | Merged | A revival variant of the independently sourced Twee fashion system. | twee-style |
| Witch House | Included | Contemporary Guardian reporting and a later practitioner account document a total visual aesthetic built from treated found video, night photography, ritualised typography and deliberately hard-to-search digital circulation. | witch-house-graphics |
| Xpiritualism | Hold | A recent belief-and-image label whose historical lineage and visual boundary remain unstable. | — |
| Y3K | Hold | A speculative trend name with no settled period or lineage distinct from contemporary futurism. | — |
| Yabujincore | Hold | A community label tied closely to one artist; practitioner breadth and naming consensus are insufficient. | — |
| Yami Kawaii | Included | Peer-reviewed research supports its kawaii, medical-sign and mental-health communication system. | yami-kawaii |
Next source corpora
These sources fill different layers. A museum term, historic screenshot and product flow are useful evidence, but they are not automatically the same kind of thing.
| Source | Observed scale | Inclusion rule |
|---|---|---|
| Mobbin | 1,428 apps, 621,500+ screens and 323,900 flows reported in the current product | Use it to study product patterns and flows. A checkout, filter, onboarding or sheet is a pattern, not a style, unless a named cross-product visual language also passes Standard 1.0. |