50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design

November 4, 2009 - 47 Comments
Design Style Series, Inspiration, Popular, Typography, Web Design

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.

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Alec East
4 Nov, 2009

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

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Designium
4 Nov, 2009

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

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Jeff
4 Nov, 2009

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

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michuk
4 Nov, 2009

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 :)

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teylor feliz
4 Nov, 2009

That is a very nice collection. Thanks for sharing!

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Tyler Galpin
4 Nov, 2009

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.

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Grey
4 Nov, 2009

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!

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website design
4 Nov, 2009

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

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kre8iveminds
5 Nov, 2009

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

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Noel Wiggins
5 Nov, 2009

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

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Thanks and Regards

Noel for Nopun.com
a graphic design studio

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Roberto Blake
5 Nov, 2009

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

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Mike Klein
5 Nov, 2009

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.

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Daniel
6 Nov, 2009

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

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Arjen
6 Nov, 2009

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

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The Pro Designer
6 Nov, 2009

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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Lisa Sandbank
6 Nov, 2009

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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Guidesigner
7 Nov, 2009

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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Premium Theme Club
7 Nov, 2009

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

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Andy Walpole
8 Nov, 2009

Excellent list mate.

There’s some inspiring stuff on here.

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Birgit
9 Nov, 2009

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/

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Daus
10 Nov, 2009

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

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michuk
12 Nov, 2009

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 :>

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Jauhari
12 Nov, 2009

Typography is important ;)

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Sam
15 Nov, 2009

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

i liked Hull Digital Live

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John Brüggemann
19 Nov, 2009

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

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