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Brutalism in contemporary graphic design Brutalism in digital design is a style that intentionally attempts to look raw, haphazard, or unadorned. It echoes early 1990s-style websites Sometimes this aspect of brutalism is expressed as bare-bones, almost naked HTML site with blue links. Both in architecture and in digital design, brutalism is seen as a reaction against artificiality and lightness. Proponents praise it for its honesty and daring. Brutalist designers want to break away from the stale, cookie-cutter, premade-template sites that dominate the web today. They want the web to be true to itself, to feel honest and not contrived.

You could say that many brutalist websites carry a black and white colour scheme. Some designers may use grey, staying close in appearance to the concrete of brutalist architecture, and many brutalist designs utilize monospace typefaces because of their raw, unadorned quality. Often Use strict grids and hierarchical structures to structuralize their designs.

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