# Neo-Brutalism

Schema: 1.0.0 · Content revision: f5fd78058ba2
Resource base: https://mejohnc.org (or the preview host used to obtain this file).

A contemporary web treatment combining assertive borders, flat color, and hard offset shadows. Its visual weight comes from outlines, spacing, and sharply separated color areas.

## Visual family
Contemporary interfaces. Editorial family: shared visual vocabulary, not a claim of common origin.

## Visual cues
- Heavy outlines
- Flat saturated fills
- Offset shadows

## Build it
1. Choose a consistent border weight.
2. Use a hard shadow to signal elevation.
3. Keep labels literal and states distinct.

## Example
A workshop registration page with outlined tickets and a high-contrast booking button.

## Typography
Use assertive sans-serif headings with plain sentence-case control labels. Borders already provide emphasis.

## Practical consequences
- Starting projects: Portfolio, Store, Internal tool. These are suggestions, not restrictions.
- Reading/layout: compact; bold visual emphasis.
- Asset work: Flat fills, borders, and hard shadows work without illustration.
- Complexity: low. Mostly standard CSS; imagery may still need preparation.

## Limits
Copying one brand as the definition of the style or using hard shadows on noninteractive decoration indiscriminately.

## Reading the collected reference board
Look at the black outlines, flat fills, and offset panel shapes. Several examples use playful pastel color, showing why orange is not a required palette.

## Context
Contemporary screen interpretation. The recipe is a modern web adaptation.
No single inventor or exact founding date is asserted for this interpretation.

## Implementation files
- [page](/territories/neo-brutalism/)
- [guide](/territories/neo-brutalism/guide.md)
- [brief](/territories/neo-brutalism/brief.md)
- [tokens](/territories/neo-brutalism/tokens.json)
- [checks](/territories/neo-brutalism/checklist.md)
- [example](/territories/neo-brutalism/example/)
- [versionedGuide](/territories/v1/neo-brutalism/guide.md)
- [versionedTokens](/territories/v1/neo-brutalism/tokens.json)