Name that vibe
What style is this?
The visual styles atlas. Recognize the look, learn its real name and the 3–5 signals that make it, tell it from its closest look‑alike — and copy a brief your coding agent can build from.
Digital UI styles5
Looks born in screens — trends and counter-trends of interface rendering
buy film for the trip
call the framer back
water the ferns…
Skeuomorphism
“the app looks like a real leather notebook”
simulated real materialsphysical lighting modelreal-object metaphors
Night Drive
lo-fiNeumorphismIndustry-coined trend
“soft buttons pushed out of the background”
one continuous surfacedual soft shadowspressed (inset) states
Lisbon
24°
Air quality
Good · 21
GlassmorphismIndustry-coined trend
“frosted cards over colorful wallpaper”
frosted translucent panelsvivid backdrop showing throughthin light edge
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- essays on plain websites
- the file archive
- guestbook (visited)
| file | size | date |
| notes.txt | 2 KB | 07/14 |
| photos.zip | 14 MB | 07/02 |
Web BrutalismContested label
“ugly raw html website”
browser-default materialsexposed document structurezero decorative rendering
Ship itloud.
One flat yellow block. Two-pixel ink. Zero blur anywhere.
NeobrutalismIndustry-coined trend
“bright blocks with black outlines and hard shadows”
thick black outlineshard offset shadowssaturated flat color blocks
Internet-native aesthetics2
Era moods named by internet archaeology, not by their makers
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Y2K Digital AestheticRetrospective label
“chrome bubblegum millennium interface”
liquid chrome and metalgel and glossy plasticiridescent blue-silver palette
Good morning
Fresh air today · 72% humidity
Frutiger AeroRetrospective label
“glossy grass bubbles old windows future”
nature fused with techglossy glass and aqua surfacessky-blue / grass-green palette
Vendor design languages1
Names owned by a platform — what its apps look like right now
A governed atlas, not a style dump
There is no honest list of “all design styles.” A style ships here only with a credible source, a terminology-status label, defensible defining signals, and a specimen you can actually recognize. In research now: Flat Design, Claymorphism, Swiss Style, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Memphis, Vaporwave, Vernacular Web, Internet Ugly.
Looking for a control, not a look? The UI-terms dictionary →