About Pastel Grunge
Pastel grunge is what Tumblr looked like in 2013: Nirvana smiley tees, chokers and ripped tights worn under pink, lilac and baby-blue dyed hair, shot on washed-out Polaroid-style filters and reblogged onto pink blog themes.
This system keeps that collision intact. Flat pastel fields carry the page, black does the grunge work in type and outline, and every image sits in a tilted white Polaroid frame with a typewriter caption, a note count and a row of tags.
- Origin
- North America, on Tumblr (founded in New York, 2007)
- Era
- 2012–2014; peak 2013 (Tumblr year-in-review fashion terms)
- Key figures
- Nirvana · Lisa Orth · Grant Alden · David Karp
- Movements
- 1990s grunge revival · Soft grunge / pastel goth · Tumblr reblog culture
Pastel Grunge design spec
Colors
Typography
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