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minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·1 year agoI know it’s just a joke, but I always saw this era of UI design as more inspired by concrete and stone than by metal.
minus-squarebestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·1 year agoBrutalist you mean?
minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 year agoSure, that fits! Everything felt very solid and chiselled. There were a lot of stone textures on the early web in that same period, too.
minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoWe called it “battleship grey”, back then.
I know it’s just a joke, but I always saw this era of UI design as more inspired by concrete and stone than by metal.
Brutalist you mean?
Sure, that fits! Everything felt very solid and chiselled. There were a lot of stone textures on the early web in that same period, too.
We called it “battleship grey”, back then.