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@mdhughes excited to see what you do! I made a half hearted attempt at some brutalist web design on my site a while back, but think I could push it a bit more while still preserving readability.

@eli @mdhughes I’m not sure about the whole Brutalist Web Design concept. I’ve seen some uses of it, and it’s godawful and the clearest statement of principles I could find seems wholly ignored by practitioners.

@dgold re-reading the principles brutalist is probably not the term for my site. I see a lot of folks harping on brutalism on the web, but I also think it has similar (or perhaps complimentary) goals to a lot of the IndieWeb -- so the aesthetic harp, I get, but everything else 🤷‍♂️

@dgold I'd also note that the gallery of brutalist sites there seems to stretch their definition of brutalism pretty far.

@dgold @eli There's a weird conflation in those. Some are "brutalist" in the minimal, true-to-materials sense. Some are GeoCities punk rock aesthetic, which is where I'm heading.