Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme
49 points by samke- 2 hours ago | 25 comments

bradly 39 minutes ago
I enjoy the look of these, but personally I wouldn't have thought to describe them as neobrutalist, so I'm thinking I don't know what it is.

How is brutalism defined in this context? When I think web brutalism I think Craigslist style sites and reduction of superfluous design elements.

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netsharc 19 minutes ago
Yeah, I can't stand these influencer-wannabe web-devs misusing terms.

béton brut means "raw concrete" in French, and in architecture that's what brutalism is. I'd say only sites that look like they use the default style of HTML with no CSS on Netscape 1.x could be called "brutalist"...

E.g. https://stallman.org

IMO the design is more "Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand Theme" https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho... combined with MS WordArt...

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nzeid 3 minutes ago
FWIW, from the OP website:

> Neobrutalism is a mix of regular brutalism in web design and more modern typography, illustration, and animation standards. Neobrutalism refuses the usual components of UX-UI design and embraces uncomfortable design elements, and it is more fearless to use distinctive color palettes.

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martythemaniak 17 minutes ago
Right, hence why it's called "Neo-brutalist" and not "brutalist". It's not just plain un-styled html.
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samastur 3 minutes ago
Neo just means new. It's not an out-of-jail card if it is completely unrelated to the old/real thing.
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Lalabadie 4 minutes ago
I think your definition is closer. I would instead look at Bell Kiosk as a good example of someone doing the digital equivalent of brutalism
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martythemaniak 19 minutes ago
It's a niche and not super-well defined, but definitely existing style, ie: https://neubrutalism.com/

Broadly, it's a move away from flat, low contrast Material-type UIs and also away from the 'gradients and curves' AI-era designs and back into something that's more like the early web.

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rawgabbit 12 minutes ago
I am not a front end dev. But one question I always had is why px and not em? I thought em as a relative distance would be better than hard coding px?
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rodolphoarruda 5 minutes ago
Is there a pure CSS or CSS + JS alternative that does not rely on React?
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wps 40 minutes ago
Really unfortunate how much I immediately associate this with vibe coded sites. So many models trend to this exact neobrutalist style when any semblance of Swiss design or minimalism is mentioned in the prompt. However, I really do like how the style looks on some sites, like in https://www.not-ship.com/united-nations-map/ which was on HN earlier.
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yieldcrv 9 minutes ago
I associate beige or purple extremely long landing pages with vibe coded

alongside infinite tangentially related features, because it lacks intention but the creator was stuck in a bout of AI psychosis

here, on the other hand, I’m wondering why they would even release this, as it should be a component for more intentional vibe coding. A Claude design template masqueraded as a whole framework

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julianlam 5 minutes ago
Ah, yes, the Brite Bootswatch skin.

No need to mess around further.

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elicash 54 minutes ago
The charts are particularly great.

I will say I'm afraid to use this style because Gemini seems to love it so much and therefore users will make assumptions about how the website was created.

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cjs_ac 36 minutes ago
Unless you're building apps for people who are also in tech, your users won't have any idea what UI styles different LLMs push.
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slig 52 minutes ago
Looks great, thanks for sharing. Do you plan to add Dark Mode and/or Shadcn theming?
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brauhaus 33 minutes ago
Is a dark mode available? That's the bit I struggle the most with this style.
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raincole 34 minutes ago
I just realized this is one more thing destroyed by LLM after em-dashes.
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switchbak 10 minutes ago
This is like the high waisted, mom-pants of browser UI design.
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Svoka 27 minutes ago
Brutalism? More like 'Back to school' vibes to be honest
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accrual 4 minutes ago
Agree, this would probably be great UI for K-6 level educational apps.
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samastur 53 minutes ago
looks awful (to provide a genuinely felt counter view)
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martythemaniak 24 minutes ago
I love it! I've been using my own styling for my various projects that I call "Soft NeoBrutalism" that's more colourful and lower contrast since I find most neobrutalist styles to be too stark. Sample here: https://frost-e.com/design-system/

Since mine is just a hacky vibe-coded single css file, I might switch to yours with a custom colour scheme.

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jawngee 25 minutes ago
trapper keeper-ism
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ls1911 2 hours ago
nice web design !
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owencmcgrath 57 minutes ago
looks great!
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