Raw
White, black and loud yellow, thick borders, hard shadows and a headline that fills the screen.
Archivo Black · Space Mono
Brutalist
Thick borders, loud colour, no polish
Deliberately raw: thick black borders, hard offset shadows, loud colours, massive heavy type and exposed grids. Bold and memorable.
12 designs
What defines this style
- Typography
- Very heavy condensed display type at enormous sizes, and a monospace or plain sans for text.
- Colour
- White or light grey with black, and one or two loud colours (yellow, red, electric blue).
- Layout
- An exposed grid with black lines, stacked blocks, overlapping elements, tables instead of cards.
- Shapes
- Always square corners, 3px black borders, a 6–8px offset solid shadow with no blur.
- Imagery
- High-contrast black-and-white or single-colour photos, cropped hard.
- Motion
- Direct: shadows that shift on press, a running text band, no soft easing.
- Details
- Huge numbers, rotated or vertical text, warning labels, underlined links.
- Avoid
- Soft shadows, gradients, rounded corners, pastel colours.
12 designs
Concrete
Cement grey, safety orange and condensed type, like a building-site board.
Anton · Archivo
Loud
An all-red page with huge black type, relentless energy for a gym.
Bebas Neue · Space Grotesk
Zine
Black-and-white photocopy with a pink touch, like a home-printed art zine.
Rubik Mono One · Space Mono
Grid
Blue ink on white with an exposed grid, a conference styled like a raw Swiss poster.
Dela Gothic One · Space Mono
Signal
Warning yellow, hazard stripes and wide black, like a road sign you can't ignore.
Bebas Neue · Archivo
Street
Off-white, fire orange and thick black borders, street food without manners: a full-width headline and the menu as a table.
Anton · Space Mono
Drop
White, black and screaming magenta, a streetwear shop of limited drops: a poster headline, bordered product cards and a size table.
Archivo Black · Space Mono
Shell
Cement grey, electric blue and yellow, a software company that writes in monospace: a huge headline, services in a table and bordered plans.
Space Mono
Loft
Concrete, black and warning orange, raw industrial lofts: tall condensed letters, listings in a table and text in columns.
Big Shoulders Display · Space Mono
Black Coffee
All orange and black, a café that does not apologise: a huge full-width headline, a heavy-ruled menu and photos in a bordered grid.
Bebas Neue · Space Grotesk
Interface
White, black and signal green, an app without make-up: two phones with thick borders, features in square cards and questions in rows.
Space Grotesk · Space Mono