Layout & composition · Grid systems
Cards & bento tiles
Content partitioned into rounded tiles or cards of varied size.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under layout & composition: how is the picture plane organised?
- styles make it
- 9
- as a defining choice
- 2
- as a usual one
- 5
- now and then
- 2
- avoid it
- 2
Styles defined by it 2
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
- Neo-BrutalismA friendly, commercial descendant of web brutalism that keeps its blunt boxes but adds candy colour: thick black outlines, hard unblurred offset shadows, flat saturated fills and chunky sans-serif type on conventional, usable layouts.
Styles that often use it 5
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
Styles that use it now and then 2
An occasional choice in these styles.
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- App & OS interfacein 9 of 9
- Web & CSSin 9 of 9
- Rounded & pillin 8 of 9
- Icons & pictogramsin 8 of 9
- Geometric sansin 8 of 9
- Pastelin 6 of 9
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.