Brutalist Hard Shadow
Hard offset box-shadows. Hover shifts the shadow. Current page inverts to a filled block.
Brutalist Hard Shadow the 5th of 22 designs in the 22 CSS Breadcrumbs collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
Live preview
The code
<nav class="bc-05" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
<ol class="bc-05__list">
<li class="bc-05__item"><a class="bc-05__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Home</a></li>
<li class="bc-05__sep" aria-hidden="true">╱</li>
<li class="bc-05__item"><a class="bc-05__link" href="javascript:void(0)">Shop</a></li>
<li class="bc-05__sep" aria-hidden="true">╱</li>
<li class="bc-05__item">
<a class="bc-05__link bc-05__link--cur" aria-current="page" href="javascript:void(0)">Item</a>
</li>
</ol>
</nav> .bc-05__list {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.bc-05__sep {
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
font-size: 12px;
user-select: none;
}
.bc-05__link {
display: block;
padding: 6px 16px;
border: 2px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 800;
letter-spacing: 0.08em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.55);
text-decoration: none;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4);
transition:
transform 0.1s,
box-shadow 0.1s,
background 0.1s,
color 0.1s;
}
.bc-05__link:hover {
transform: translate(-1px, -1px);
box-shadow: 3px 3px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);
color: #fff;
}
.bc-05__link--cur {
background: #eeeaf8;
color: #07070c;
border-color: #eeeaf8;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 0 rgba(139, 127, 255, 0.5);
pointer-events: none;
}