Retro website design borrows from a decade on purpose — 153 sites here doing it deliberately rather than accidentally. Y2K chrome, 90s web furniture, print-era type and grain, applied to pages that still have to convert in 2026. Each is a full-page video recording, so you can see whether the reference is a costume or a structure. The ones that work borrow a system: a type pairing, a palette, a layout logic that had reasons behind it. The ones that do not borrow only the surface, and read as a filter dropped over a modern template. Sorted newest first.
