9 Sites Using Amazing Typography And How You Can Too

Typography is an essential tool for any web designer. For many sites, it’s the stimulus that takes the design from serviceable but bland to dynamic and intriguing. Just try imagining any of the examples that follow with a plain, one-size typeface, and you’ll see just how much the designs rely on having interesting type choices, layouts, and effects. Now that web designers are finally able to use specialized typefaces and complex effects in their designs, it’s a good time to really take a look at how typography really works to elevate web designs. Let’s dive into some websites with great typography and have a look at how they have used it to elevate their website.

Typography in web design can run the gamut from ultra-minimalist and barely styled to painstakingly hand lettered and rollover-laden. They can all be completely effective, as long as they fit the context and the goals of the site.

1. Web Design Ledger

 2. GOOD

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3. Future Of Web Apps

4. VigetInspire

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5. Diaroogle.com

6. The Morning News

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7. Ordered List

8. Words Are Pictures

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9. The New Yorker

10. Black Estate Vineyard

Each of these websites with great typography uses it in a way that furthers their general design goals. For example, The New Yorker uses a powerful font style to evoke the momentousness of its topic, while the Words Are Pictures uses flowing hand lettering as a visual cue to their focus on creativity and originality. Make sure that your typographic decisions are informed by goals such as these, and you’ll be on the right path to using typography in just as inspirational a way as all of these examples have done.

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