Stolen Buttons

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donohoe•13 minutes ago

I have noticed on occasion websites with a missing button. Now I know what happened. Finally, closure.

input_sh•about 3 hours ago

Too bad they're just static, as the website doesn't copy the hover state or the on-click animations.

dorianmariecom•about 2 hours ago

:hover and :focus

there are others i think

paul7986•27 minutes ago

or link to the site they are from. But then are they aren't stolen buttons?

joncooper•12 minutes ago

You made my day. What a joyful, weird, fun projec!

nate•9 minutes ago

for sure. every day i come here hoping for something like this. something like the old milliondollarhomepage kind of things. i miss that stuff :)

binaryturtle•about 3 hours ago

I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect.

I'm old-school. :)

nielssp•about 2 hours ago

You might like this: https://nielssp.dk/guis/buttons

Kuyawa•about 1 hour ago

Ubuntu 2020 wins, only one dark themed

binaryturtle•about 1 hour ago

A few really nice buttons there, indeed. :)

reaperducer•about 1 hour ago

So interesting to see the contrast between OSX and Windows in 2001.

No wonder OSX felt like the future.

I miss the future.

bhaak•31 minutes ago

For me the 2001 OSX looks wishy washy and does not have a professional look.

QuantumNomad_•about 2 hours ago

I see a couple that look like buttons to me, like a yellow Donate button and a green Learn More button.

I agree that most of the other ones don’t look very button like to me either. But even so I would probably understand that most of them were buttons when I saw them in context on a page.

The flat style has been around for a while now, so I’ve gotten used to it even though when I started using computers it was on Windows 95 with the grey rectangular buttons with shaded sides that give them the “3d effect”.

And even flat style buttons often have changes when you hover and click, but it seems that they didn’t copy that part on this button collection page.

harpiaharpyja•about 2 hours ago

They didn't copy any hold/hover states which is too bad, those are an integral part of a button IMO

madibo3156•about 2 hours ago

It sounds like you're talking about the "gloss" era with "juicy" buttons, which some people are retroactively referring to as Frutiger Aero. Yes, things definitely look more 3D in that design. It's currently considered out of mainstream fashion, which explains the lack. Will it resurge?

binaryturtle•about 1 hour ago

Earlier era for me actually. I'm a 90s person. :)

jonwinstanley•29 minutes ago

Web 2.0 was fun :-)

jonathrg•39 minutes ago

That's rude. Give them back

a1o•23 minutes ago

Are we in flat design for way too long or is this a recent idea and the collection is also very recent?

JSR_FDED•about 1 hour ago

Surprising how not one of these made my heart beat faster.

michaelt•about 1 hour ago

None of them push your buttons, huh?

amelius•about 2 hours ago

For inspiration, I prefer this one:

https://uiverse.io/buttons

Jaxan•14 minutes ago

Oh this reminds me that we used to create buttons for navigation in flash!

Gualdrapo•about 2 hours ago

https://uiverse.io/GreyD097/great-rat-93

wow

reaperducer•about 1 hour ago

That's the only interesting one. The rest are a snoozefest of corporate mediocrity.

anon7000•about 2 hours ago

I don’t think it’s for animation, it’s to collect all the different buttons seen in the wild

jstanley•about 2 hours ago

Is it just me or are these almost all terrible?

Almost all of them are animated, move when hovered, move when clicked, or sometimes all three. Just awful. LLMs keep making buttons like this and I keep telling them not to.

thih9•about 2 hours ago

I wish there was a way to exclude the plain ones (single color rectangle with rounded corners and text).

sshasan•41 minutes ago

Oh wow! Curious if you have the collection indexed by the year/month you picked it. Would love to see how button designs and types have changed over the years.

t-sauer•32 minutes ago

610 buttons are anchor elements, and only 285 are actually real buttons.

bnj•36 minutes ago

Great, how are we supposed to use those websites now? No wonder web is breaking down

Waterluvian•about 3 hours ago

Is this as easy as calling getComputedStyle on a target element or is there more to it? I love the idea and I want to experiment with automating similar.

Gecko4072•about 3 hours ago

https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer

Waterluvian•about 2 hours ago

Thanks. Gah I feel blind. I went back and it’s right there at the top

Gecko4072•about 2 hours ago

Ha there were a few buttons on the page that might’ve been distracting lol

finger•about 2 hours ago

It would be interesting if it was possible to sort them by similarity, width, height, shape, color, etc.

Retr0id•about 3 hours ago

Interesting choice to hotlink all the images! The side-effect is that some are dead now.

wuhhh•about 3 hours ago

I can’t look, so many arrows poorly aligned with text - how can these developers live with themselves!

Aardwolf•about 3 hours ago

What is one to do? Unicode has dozens of arrows for each direction, but each of them has its height compared to the text rendered differently depending on font or platform

matteason•about 3 hours ago

They're usually done with SVGs or CSS pseudoelements (a clip-path polygon or borders and rotation) rather than Unicode arrows

wuhhh•about 2 hours ago

Exactly, text content goes in a <span>, icon is an <svg>, flex align items center on the wrapper gets you close, nudge the icon to perfection with transform: translate

hmokiguess•about 3 hours ago

You should deduplicate and offer a cluster view with similarity distance

iefbr14•about 2 hours ago

It reminds me a bit of the toolbar mania in the nineties :)

aghilmort•about 3 hours ago

this is really great like collecting bottle caps except is buttons

thomasfl•about 3 hours ago

So many different looking buttons. Wish there were more standards.

dandellion•about 3 hours ago

There are only like three or four that aren't just flat buttons with a different border radius and colour. If this had been done in the mid 2000s it would have hundreds of entirely different looking buttons. Glassy buttons, metal buttons, glowing buttons, pixel art buttons, cartoon buttons, etc.

echelon•about 3 hours ago

A better time. Before flat material lameness and Corporate Memphis.

dev1ycan•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, let's take the remaining fun out of the web, everything needs to be gray and plain.

echelon•about 3 hours ago

It's called design and thank god everything isn't the same.

Gtk has some nice standard looking buttons for you. You know how those look, and I'm pretty sure you don't want that.

Think to when "UI experts" impose edicts from top down, such as "flat design" or "material". Are you really happy about that?

The fact that we're even looking in awe at this list is amazing. If everything were the same, this wouldn't even be interesting.

This is fun and we need more of it in the world.

drdaeman•about 2 hours ago

Lack of consistent system-wide UI and UX was my biggest gripe with GNU/Linux/X11 back in the day (‘90s, pre-Winamp era, other OSes had most apps with uniform look-and-feel) while I still cared about things like that.

codewiththiha•about 2 hours ago

So this is basically the Thanos of web devs

0x1ceb00da•about 1 hour ago

Yoink

modzu•42 minutes ago

none of them work

firasd•about 2 hours ago

This is like the late 80s/early 90s cyberspace idea... Imagine you're walking through a 3D ramp and all these buttons are yelling at you from all over the atmosphere... Login here! Start here! Contact us...

ninjahawk1•about 1 hour ago

Very nice.

Now let’s see Paul Allen’s buttons