Brutal (web) Design... I was unaware about this new trend since Gemini made forget about the WWW... But actually there is a counter initiative to resinstate a WWW which tries to recover the original roots while using the modern and current features...
https://brutalist-web.design
The author stated seven guidelines to achieve a brutal website and I believe that Gemini checks them all plus adds a couple of more that HTML/HTTP doesn't have by design…
2 years ago · 👍 digbat, devyl, moddedbear, innerteapot, arkholt, tm85, ttocsneb
@arkholt underlined links is the metric about this brutal design... It is just recently that underlined text is decently rendered... 🙄 · 2 years ago
I think I agree with most of these, except the underlined link one. I think as long as the link is a distinctly different color from the rest of the text, people will understand it as a link. Plus, it just reads better without it. The lack of inline links makes that irrelevant on Gemini, of course. · 2 years ago