On: Show HN: The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines

[avereveard]

idk when brutalist became synonim of ugly and minimum effort, but I assure you it's not.

[NoGravitas → avereveard]

Brutalism means making the form support the function, and being true to the materials you're using. I'd say this qualifies.

[avereveard → NoGravitas]

Absolutely not, besides, even assuming that brutalism also include function over form, the site isn't true to materials, as links and fonts are obviously fancied up, and the page structure is absolutely hidden in a sea of white. Moreover, the structure is slaved to the content and not the other way around.

lol who donvoted this? you don't need more than two minutes of image search to utterly demolish the notion that brutalism is function over form.

[cpach → avereveard]

Ugly? I don’t agree. I think it’s a clean and fresh layout. I don’t think it’s incorrect to call it brutalist.

[avereveard → cpach]

> fresh [...] brutalist

Lol

[hellisothers → avereveard]

I’d say, to the average person the Brutalist aesthetic is certainly synonymous with ugly minimalism.

[granitepail → avereveard]

Maybe the backend was written in concrete.

[jonwinstanley → avereveard]

Yes, and brutalist refers to French word for raw concrete, Brut, not in relation to the adjective Brutal.

[culi → avereveard]

I agree. Just look through some of the listed sites on brutalistwebsites.com[0] and you'll quickly realize most of these designs are NOT easy to pull off

[0] https://brutalistwebsites.com/