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This style looks a bit like the "pop art" of the 80s with its hard colors and thick black borders. I suppose eventually you run out of design paradigms.
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
This style looks a bit like the "pop art" of the 80s with its hard colors and thick black borders. I suppose eventually you run out of design paradigms.
- Tepix 5y agoRight. When i hear "neobrutalism" i associate it with the looks of the ancient twm window manager as seen in this screenshot: https://xteddy.org/xwinman/screenshots/twm-system.gif https://xteddy.org/xwinman/screenshots/twm-system.gif Especially the "original" black and white background pattern of the X11 seems "raw" these days. Interestingly, the twm popup menu has a similar harsh shadow as proposed by the article.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoIndeed, although in those days the hard shadows were due to technical issues (very limited colour depth). Sometimes you even had to swap palettes because they required different sets of the 256 available colours. You would click one program (xv - the picture viewer known as xview was a big candidate as it really needed to tailor its palette to show pictures decently) and all the others screwed up and vice versa. 32 bit full colour with alpha channel is amazing <3 Palettes were such a pain.