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Surface & texture · Hand & machine marks

Glitch

Corrupted pixels, scanlines, compression artefacts.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under surface & texture: what is the material finish?

styles make it: 8
as a defining choice: 2
as a usual one: 5
now and then: 1
avoid it: 10

Styles defined by it 2

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Glitch Art & Datamosh Graphics2001–present · Global / networked, Western Europe, Central Europe, Northern Europe, North AmericaAn art and design practice that makes digital failure the picture.
Analog Horror Graphics2015–present · North America, Global / networkedA horror genre, mostly on YouTube, that tells its stories through imitation television and home-video graphics rather than actors: emergency-alert screens, station IDs, public-service, educational and instructional tapes, set between the 1960s and early 2000s.

Styles that often use it 5

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 1

An occasional choice in these styles.

Fantasy User Interface (FUI) & Sci-Fi HUD1999–present

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

3D renderin 8 of 8
Grain & noisein 7 of 8
Fluorescent & neonin 7 of 8
Motion & broadcastin 7 of 8
Web & CSSin 7 of 8
Treated photographyin 7 of 8

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in surface & texture