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I appreciate there are people who find Tailwind useful and are productive with it, but it has this clean yet generic look that I now see everywhere, because Tai

I appreciate there are people who find Tailwind useful and are productive with it, but it has this clean yet generic look that I now see everywhere, because Tailwind is now everywhere.

sadmanca 2y ago
I feel like that's a good thing, because Tailwind's options are well-thought and work well. I like to think of it in the same way as Inter being the new Helvetica when it comes to choosing a font for a website: lots of people do it, and it looks great, so why not?
Sateeshm 2y ago
Tailwind gives you sensible defaults, but doesn't really influence your design too much. People just tend to design the sites a certain way. Especially, with ShadCn.
gkoberger 2y ago
This is conflating Tailwind and TailwindUI/shadcn/etc. For the most part, Tailwind offers no more influence over style than normal CSS (okay, there's some exceptions... things like shadows are a bit more standardized, and indigo has gotten outside influence on color palettes as of late).
harrall 2y ago
I heard this comment about Bootstrap back this in the day but none of my Bootstrap sites looked like each other. Bootstrap saved me a lot of time because it had a lot of utility classes (like Tailwind way before Tailwind) and it never enforced a certain look. You just loaded the classes that you wanted (unless you didn’t download the source Sass files, but that would have been silly).
Zanfa 2y ago
The same way everything looked like Bootstrap a decade ago.
cloverich 2y ago
My take on this problem is, good UI frameworks (i.e. tailwind + components) are still rare. So the vast majority of projects use a very small number of them. If 4-5 new quality UI projects popped up, especially if they departed more in their styling, we'd see more diversity. I've come to realize with design, like much creative work, the trends really do seem to be set by a shockingly small number of people. I wish more people realized this, because I feel there are talented individuals out there not making their own, thinking they'll never be heard. But I suspect some of those people would be unlocking new UI's for a large chunk of the web if they would give it a go.

I appreciate there are people who find Tailwind useful and are productive with it, but it has this clean yet generic look that I now see everywhere, because Tailwind is now everywhere.

sadmanca 2y ago

I feel like that's a good thing, because Tailwind's options are well-thought and work well. I like to think of it in the same way as Inter being the new Helvetica when it comes to choosing a font for a website: lots of people do it, and it looks great, so why not?

Sateeshm 2y ago

Tailwind gives you sensible defaults, but doesn't really influence your design too much. People just tend to design the sites a certain way. Especially, with ShadCn.

gkoberger 2y ago

This is conflating Tailwind and TailwindUI/shadcn/etc. For the most part, Tailwind offers no more influence over style than normal CSS (okay, there's some exceptions... things like shadows are a bit more standardized, and indigo has gotten outside influence on color palettes as of late).

harrall 2y ago

I heard this comment about Bootstrap back this in the day but none of my Bootstrap sites looked like each other. Bootstrap saved me a lot of time because it had a lot of utility classes (like Tailwind way before Tailwind) and it never enforced a certain look. You just loaded the classes that you wanted (unless you didn’t download the source Sass files, but that would have been silly).

Zanfa 2y ago

The same way everything looked like Bootstrap a decade ago.

cloverich 2y ago

My take on this problem is, good UI frameworks (i.e. tailwind + components) are still rare. So the vast majority of projects use a very small number of them. If 4-5 new quality UI projects popped up, especially if they departed more in their styling, we'd see more diversity. I've come to realize with design, like much creative work, the trends really do seem to be set by a shockingly small number of people. I wish more people realized this, because I feel there are talented individuals out there not making their own, thinking they'll never be heard. But I suspect some of those people would be unlocking new UI's for a large chunk of the web if they would give it a go.