Not too far in the past, when Bootstrapped themes were becoming the face of the Internet, a new framework came to town — TailwindCSS. The smart thing they did was introduced the framework with a few brilliant template and a lot of styled components. I bought the initial copy and does a lot of people. Those templates, TailwindUI.com (now TailwindCSS.com/plus)[1] became the gradien-y, dark-ish, glow-y design you see a lot these days.

A similar design wave is also happening with internal dashboard, admin interfaces. Thanks to https://ui.shadcn.com Personally, I'm fine with the standardization of such functional interface designs.

btw, for Have I Been Pwned, this is Bootstrap[2] and I'm not surprised it is also inheriting those design styles.

1. https://tailwindcss.com/plus

2. https://getbootstrap.com

I think GitHub kinda did it first on their desktop home page, but that has been out for years.

As someone who frequented a lot of video game-centric Invision Power Boards in the early 2000s, this is deeply insulting.

I actually think I saw it on Linear (the issue tracker app) first. Who knows

I feel like that was a subtype within the style that Stripe popularized.

The term is ‘unreadable’. There are good reasons `:prefers-color-scheme` exists; use it.

Not sure which was first, but I associate this style a lot with Apple's product pages like https://www.apple.com/au/macbook-pro/