Visual Arts
1778 sites
https://waterlily.nekoweb.org/
Waterlily is the cozy personal corner of Lily, a 23-year-old with a love for pixel art, anime, and old-web aesthetics, featuring a gallery, shrines, graphics, and a toybox full of collectibles. With 182 images and a charm-packed layout full of blinkies and badges, it captures the spirit of handcrafted neocities-style personal sites at their most expressive.
https://strawbebby228.neocities.org/
Strawbebby228's Neocities site is styled as an interactive desktop environment, complete with draggable windows, a chatbox, and a terminal. It showcases 2D and 3D art alongside playful web toys like a pie-baking game, a PSX character creator, and a bus seat pattern generator.
https://kayh.dev/
Kayh's personal site features a gallery alongside a blog, presenting a minimal but artistically styled web presence with a poetic, atmospheric sensibility. The site participates in the Hotline Webring and links to GitHub and X, suggesting a creative developer with a visual arts focus.
https://leooooliver.neocities.org/
Leo's Homespace is a cozy Neocities personal site built by a 21-year-old theatre student who creates art, writes songs, and crochets in their spare time. The site features an art gallery, book and movie logs, a music page, journals including a dream diary, and a rotating 'Freak of the Week' section.
http://themaninblue.com/articles/handwritten_typographers
A fascinating editorial piece exploring the handwriting of renowned typographers, including Erik Spiekermann, Kris Sowersby, and others, asking whether the people who design our typefaces have distinctive penmanship of their own. The article pairs samples of each typographer's famous fonts alongside photographs of their actual handwriting, making for a uniquely personal and visually rich read.
https://btn-island.neocities.org/
BTN Island is the creative personal home of LunarCat the Ninth (aka Bear), a multilingual web enthusiast near the Mediterranean who built this dark-themed site as a digital lair for self-expression, journals, and a curated gallery. Named after an Adventure Time location, the site features hand-picked 88x31 buttons, webrings, a garden section, and a maze, making it a charming example of old-web craft and personality.
https://lunaii-dollmaker.com/
Lunaii is a long-running pixel avatar and dollmaker site from 2007, letting visitors create their own customized doll characters through a browser-based dress-up tool. Though much of the original Flash content has been lost to time, the core dollmaker lives on and the site links to similar dress-up game destinations like Doll Divine and Azalea's Dress-up Dolls.
https://nepeta.pet/
Nepeta's cozy cave is a wildly expressive personal site bursting with autoplaying music, flashing lights, and a theme that changes frequently to match the creator's ever-shifting aesthetic. The site promises 'unhinged chaos' and a handcrafted old-web sensibility, complete with webrings and a community membership in Autists Online.
https://speedshow.net/speed-show-fun-is-back
SPEED SHOW is an exhibition format created by artist Aram Bartholl that transforms public internet cafes into one-night gallery spaces for browser-based internet art, open to anyone anywhere in the world. This page documents the 'Fun is Back!' edition held in Stuttgart in 2011, curated by Olia Lialina and Bartholl, featuring browser-based works by students of Merz Akademie.
https://chaogarden.nekoweb.org/
Chao Garden is a personal hobby site by an 18-year-old autistic transmasc webmaster named Chao, featuring graphics, shrines, creative work, and a diary hosted on Nekoweb. The site has a soft, whimsical aesthetic with hand-coded pages covering collections, creative projects, and personal interests.