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50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design

November 4, 2009 by Paul Andrew Design Style Series, Inspiration, Typography, Web Design, Web Inspiration

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Currently, two of the most popular web design trends are: taking the minimal approach, which we will look at next week, and the use of clever and creative typography. Today we focus on typography.
Not only do we showcase typography in the classic sense, but also illustrate that the combination of web design and great typography can be used effectively, along with clever color selection, and create usable web sites thats base design is dominated by text, for either navigation, a good headline, a logo or even used for the entire content.
As the selection below illustrates there are no limitation to using typography within web design.
Below you will find 50 varied styles and examples of creative and effective typography within web design.

Previous parts of the Top 50 Web Design Styles Series

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A Showcase of 50 Amazing Personal Blog Web Designs »
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50 Professional Web Design Agency Web Sites »
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50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs »
50 Inspirational and Fresh Minimally Designed Web Sites »
50 Creative and Inspirational Personal Portfolio Websites »
50 Inspiring Web Application and Service Web Site Designs »
50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design »
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50 Creative Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design »

Hull Digital Live 09

Typography and web Design

Project 365

Typography and web Design

ESPIRA

Typography and web Design

Oliver Kavanagh

Typography and web Design

Denise Chandler

Typography and web Design

Brunet-García Advertising Inc

Typography and web Design

Random Thought Pattern

Typography and web Design

StackOverflow DevDays

Typography and web Design

New to York

Typography and web Design

The Skyline

Typography and web Design

gregorywood.co.uk

Typography and web Design

Gareth Dickey

Typography and web Design

Ryan Keiser

Typography and web Design

Love Freelancing

Typography and web Design

Bobulate

Typography and web Design

FIT Digital

Typography and web Design

A Way Back

Typography and web Design

Jack Bloom

Typography and web Design

The Personal Disquiet of Mark Boulton

Typography and web Design

Ribbons of Red

Typography and web Design

Inspire

Typography and web Design

Design Taxi

Typography and web Design

Great Works

Typography and web Design

daus.trala.la

Typography and web Design

Circus

Typography and web Design

Nick Sigler

Typography and web Design

MAD in Spain

Typography and web Design

One day without Google

Typography and web Design

Five Simple Steps

Typography and web Design

Second And Park

Typography and web Design

Brooklyn Fare

Typography and web Design

Snook.ca

Typography and web Design

The Beast Is Back

Typography and web Design

River City Church of Jacksonville

Typography and web Design

Inkcover Blog

Typography and web Design

Web Designer dan Blogger Cepu

Typography and web Design

Europe by Designers

Typography and web Design

Denise Chandler

Typography and web Design

m360

Typography and web Design

Jon Brousseau

Typography and web Design

Gritti Rollo

Typography and web Design

Present Joys

Typography and web Design

Mark Wallis

Typography and web Design

Paulo Zoom

Typography and web Design

For A Beautiful Web

Typography and web Design

DearIE6 – So Long

Typography and web Design

LOREM IPSUM

Typography and web Design

Independent Studio

Typography and web Design

Filmaster

Typography and web Design

Intersected Blog

Typography and web Design

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  • http://ukoko,.com Alec East

    Some lovely examples but surprised you missed out: http://jontangerine.com/

    If you’re not familiar with it, start by checking-out the logo – it’s all CSS

  • http://designi1.com Designium

    Very nice collection :D going to subscribe this post for later usage !!

  • Jeff

    The giant numbers on this site are pretty effective, haha:
    http://whatareyoudoingrightnow.net/

  • http://filmaster.com michuk

    Thanks for the link to Filmaster. There is an English version on the website as well at http://filmaster.com (you linked to the Polish one).
    If you are interested in other design by Helen, go to her website http://helen.pl – some of the examples are even better than Filmaster :)

  • http://www.admixweb.com teylor feliz

    That is a very nice collection. Thanks for sharing!

  • http://www.twitter.com/tylergalpin Tyler Galpin

    Just a heads-up: one of the sites you have listed, “Web Designer dan Blogger Cepu” is a design rip of http://www.darrenhoyt.com.

  • http://caramelz.my Grey

    very nice collection, thank you for sharing! i love Gritti Rollo’s example, that is some bold typography that we often see on print yet is not popular on web. he did a great job with that tho!

  • http://www.brandmantra.net/ website design

    Woa… really impressive list… Im very fond of various typography…

  • http://www.kre8iveminds.com kre8iveminds

    Great. Now I have some idea how to use typography in my designs. Thanks

  • http://www.nopun.com Noel Wiggins

    I recently just took a turning point with wordpress and now have a full working knowledge of making a design from scratch and then adding all the wordpress functionality. And I have to say I have been hearing the Begees in the background as I walk these days, ahem at least up to the point of seeing this inspirada round up.

    I am now going to take a look at what I have done and try and bring up the typography side to the level it needs to be.

    Thanks for the kick in the but, I’m glad I don’t hear the Begees when I walk :-P

    –

    Thanks and Regards

    Noel for Nopun.com
    a graphic design studio

  • http://robertoblake.com/blog Roberto Blake

    Great post, typography is something people definitely under estimate in the design field.

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  • http://www.michaelklein.ca Mike Klein

    Nice compilation of sites with some great type examples. I love the hand drawn 365 site. It’s great to see when art and design collide with the interweb. :) I think we are going to see more of this ‘tactile’ style on the web.

  • Daniel

    Quite a lot of these have been featured on siteInspire…

    Take a look at the typographic category for more:

    http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/theme/typography

  • http://www.arjentienkamp.com/weblog/ Arjen

    Really nice fonts you’ve got here. I love the Gritti Rollo font. It’s so light and stylish.

  • http://theprodesigner.com The Pro Designer

    This really is a topic that people don’t take into consideration enough, typeography for web, it can have such a big impact. great list of sites, my fav is Love Freelancing

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  • http://brotherlab.com Lisa Sandbank

    Trends are made from seeing too much of the last trend. With these examples, I feel like I’m looking at the heyday of beautiful print design. When the web started, we were sick of the look of printed pages. We wanted something dynamic and futuristic, even catastrophic (Enter David Carson). Now the recession hit, we’re at war, the world seems chaotic enough and we’re back to the stately, magnificent art of the letter, a reminder of simpler, nobler times. David Carson, don’t go anywhere, we’ll need you again in few years.

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  • http://www.guidesigner.net Guidesigner

    Thanks for this Useful post, i really like your blog. now i am going to bookmark this as my favorite blogs lists.

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    good typography is life of any design and example above proves that

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  • http://www.suburban-glory.com/ Andy Walpole

    Excellent list mate.

    There’s some inspiring stuff on here.

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  • http://birgitg.com Birgit

    Great collection – thanks for sharing!

    The Hull Digital Live 09 reminds me heavily though on the carsonfield event design web site – http://events.carsonified.com/

  • http://daus.trala.la Daus

    Thank you for including me on the list. I appreciate it.

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  • http://filmaster.com michuk

    By the way, you can now nominate websites for Crunchies awards in the Best Design category: http://crunchies2009.techcrunch.com/vote/

    Of course I encourage you to put “Filmaster” in the text box, but you’re free to vote for any web page from the above list :>

  • http://www.jauhari.net/ Jauhari

    Typography is important ;)

  • http://www.sam3k.com Sam

    fyi, you have Denise Chandler’s site listed twice.

    i liked Hull Digital Live

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  • http://www.keksbox.com John Brüggemann

    This blew my mind and safed my day. Thanks! Awesome sites.

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  • http://www.churchpixel.com Church Website Design

    I always want to create more creativenesses in my all designs. I really appreciate your design indeed. Very inspirational. People have to be more creative and innovative to explain their particular designs. Keep it up

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  • http://www.hybridlava.com/ Alan

    lovely work…

  • http://mobilearea.mobi adi mobile apps

    its so great roundup sir

    make me have a new inspiration for my web desain

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  • http://www.sugeng.web.id/ Berita terkini

    nice to see this one

  • http://jurug.blogspot.com jurug

    nice… I have bookmarks thanks

  • http://www.alpaproductions.com alpaproductions

    I quite like the dark websites with subtle typography colors or even using brights but not in bold lettering. Very nice collection!

  • http://pro-gadget.net ariberbagi

    wowh, fantastic collection

    i want entry to my bookmarks :D

  • http://sayangeblog.com sayangeblog

    its so great roundup sir
    make me have a new inspiration for my web desain

  • http://www.vainfotech.com vainfotech

    It is good.

    Thanks

  • http://pothatos.blogspot.com/ malphy

    Nice article. Thanks
    great post!! keep them coming!

  • http://www.morphealth.com/ nisa sanjaya

    I am also still learning typhography :)

  • http://www.tom-elliott.net/ Tom Elliott

    some beautiful examples of great type styles here – inspiration for all us web designers!

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