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minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·6 months 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-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoWe called it “battleship grey”, back then.
minus-squarebestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up39·6 months agoBrutalist you mean?
minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·6 months 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.
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.
We called it “battleship grey”, back then.
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.