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Neumorphism

Soft shadows making buttons look extruded from the page. Beautiful on Dribbble, unusable in a browser, and gone before anyone shipped it.

Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
Format exhaustion
First sighting
Alexander Plyuto, Dribbble
Life & death · 2018–2027
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2019
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PEAK 2020
BORN · 2019
DIED · 2021
NOW · 2026

Testimony

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Definition @reader_bereaved · Coroner 1 Sep 2026

You can date a person by how they say Neumorphism. There is a 2019 pronunciation, a 2020 pronunciation, and the one used by people explaining it to a meeting, and only the first two count.

Definition @corecore_carol · Poster 28 Jul 2026

Not quite what the headnote says. Neumorphism was never really about the thing itself — it was a way of showing you were in the room when it happened. The meaning was the membership.

Sighting @pixelrot · Digger 5 Jun 2026

Evidence, with a photograph: a council recycling leaflet, 23 February. Neumorphism, with quotation marks around it, which is how an institution says it has heard of something.

📎 ref GUI-2026-0545 · under verification
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