Brutalist Websites is a long-running archive of raw, unpolished, deliberately unconventional web design — sites that reject the smooth, templated look of most modern web design in favor of visible structure, default type, and clashing layouts.
It's a useful antidote when a design has gotten too safe — browsing here resets your sense of what a webpage is allowed to look like, since almost nothing here follows standard UX conventions.
Good for designers and developers who want a jolt of raw, unconventional reference, or for anyone specifically pursuing the brutalist aesthetic for a project that wants to feel deliberately anti-polish.
This is inspiration for one specific, polarizing aesthetic, not general web design reference — most of what's shown here would fail a standard usability review, which is the entire point, but that makes it a bad fit for client work that needs to look conventionally trustworthy.
A collection of brutalist websites.
