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Brutalist? There is a custom font, a fixed text width, and it is even centered! :)

by lqet 6y ago

ketzu 6y ago
It probably depends if you consider these things functional or decorative.
pedrogpimenta 6y ago
Brutalist doesn't meen no css. Brutalism in architecture is minimum decoration. I mean, it would be brutalist to leave tubes and other plumbings visible on the outside, but if you hide them to make the spacer "prettier" it's still brutalism.
- croissants 6y ago
  Yes, my understanding of brutalism is that it was meant to be about "honesty" rather than "ugliness" -- little decoration, craftmanship, or anything for the quality of the materials themselves to hide behind. But some of its most famous exponents appear to be more about "ugliness", so over time it's kind of come to mean "ugliness in the name of honesty", which really is hard to appreciate.
- m463 6y ago
  I immediately "got" brutalism in architecture when I saw those all-concrete no-windows structures. But you look at wikipedia and I think the ones with windows or color should have another, lesser name.
  - throwaway2245 6y ago
    When I think of brutalism, I think of the Barbican Estate in London as a canonical example - there's a lot of concrete, but also a lot of windows (a whole lot more window area than you would find in other UK residential architecture). And, it feels absolutely comfortable to be inside. I value the experience of being inside the building, more than how it looks from the outside. As such, I find it hard to understand when people associate brutalism with ugliness. First search result, by way of example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/what-it-s-live-inside-barbican-one-london-s-most-iconic-buildings-a7436846.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/what-it-s-live-inside-bar...
angel_j 6y ago
The appearance of <style> to emphasize the pure lack of </style> ;^D
throw_m239339 6y ago
There is nothing brutalist about this page. "Brutalism" has been turned into yet another buzzword by web-designers. It's now basically an excuse to do cheap looking pages with no sense or understanding of webdesign at first place. It's a race to the bottom.

Brutalist? There is a custom font, a fixed text width, and it is even centered! :)

by lqet 6y ago

Brutalist? There is a custom font, a fixed text width, and it is even centered! :)

ketzu 6y ago

It probably depends if you consider these things functional or decorative.

pedrogpimenta 6y ago

Brutalist doesn't meen no css. Brutalism in architecture is minimum decoration. I mean, it would be brutalist to leave tubes and other plumbings visible on the outside, but if you hide them to make the spacer "prettier" it's still brutalism.

croissants 6y ago
Yes, my understanding of brutalism is that it was meant to be about "honesty" rather than "ugliness" -- little decoration, craftmanship, or anything for the quality of the materials themselves to hide behind. But some of its most famous exponents appear to be more about "ugliness", so over time it's kind of come to mean "ugliness in the name of honesty", which really is hard to appreciate.
m463 6y ago
I immediately "got" brutalism in architecture when I saw those all-concrete no-windows structures. But you look at wikipedia and I think the ones with windows or color should have another, lesser name.
- throwaway2245 6y ago
  When I think of brutalism, I think of the Barbican Estate in London as a canonical example - there's a lot of concrete, but also a lot of windows (a whole lot more window area than you would find in other UK residential architecture). And, it feels absolutely comfortable to be inside. I value the experience of being inside the building, more than how it looks from the outside. As such, I find it hard to understand when people associate brutalism with ugliness. First search result, by way of example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/what-it-s-live-inside-barbican-one-london-s-most-iconic-buildings-a7436846.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/what-it-s-live-inside-bar...

angel_j 6y ago

The appearance of <style> to emphasize the pure lack of </style> ;^D

throw_m239339 6y ago

There is nothing brutalist about this page. "Brutalism" has been turned into yet another buzzword by web-designers. It's now basically an excuse to do cheap looking pages with no sense or understanding of webdesign at first place. It's a race to the bottom.