In Inspiration Feb 24, 200816

18 Typography Focused Designs

A website doesn’t always need a lot of design elements to be considered good. Sometimes great typography alone can get the job done. This article is a showcase of designs that fall into that category. With these sites you won’t see a lot of textures, color, or imagery, but instead a focus on type and layout.


  • I Love Typography

  • Mark Wieman

  • Unspace

  • trait

  • Technology Herald

  • Rikcat Industries

  • Photo Tropic

  • Jon Tan

  • ixwa

  • Information Architects

  • Identity Works

  • Hot Meteor

  • Daniel Mall

  • Cravattificio

  • Coudal Partners

  • Chama

  • Astheria

  • AI Alex

16 Comments

  • Fubiz
    Mar 14, 2008
    Very good selection and roundup!
  • Moses
    Mar 15, 2008
    Hello Henry,

    Thanks for rounding up these examples and appreciate you including Chama as one of the examples.

    Keep up the great work on your site.

    Cheers,
    Moses

  • GregWilliam
    Mar 15, 2008
    Yep, great selection. I think I’ll include some of these in Submit Css in the future.

    Great work!

    - GregWilliam

  • Bob Galmarini
    Mar 17, 2008
    Great post and selection of sites. Nice to see typography recognized as an important part of web design again. It is often forgotten about.
  • Joel Helin
    Mar 18, 2008
    Nice. Really like this collection.
  • Edwin Joseph
    Mar 19, 2008
    Wow..very simple designs but the layout is really good!
  • Richard Butler
    Mar 19, 2008
    I hope i would have like one of those designs!
  • Jason
    Mar 25, 2008
    I’m not suggesting this article implies that good typography constitutes the absence of other elements, but looking at the examples shown, there are many that seem to think it does.
  • Mark Wieman
    Mar 30, 2008
    This is a great collection. I am flattered that you chose my site to be included. Thank you.
  • Mitternacht
    Oct 25, 2008
    Sobriety and sophistication at their best!
    I love these designs, I made a theme for Dotclear with these in mind.
    But I think this list needs Khoi Vinh’s Substraction to be complete:
    http://www.subtraction.com/
    A perfect example of typography-oriented, grid-based design.
  • Davo
    Nov 5, 2008
    Fantastic for inspiring, me parece muy generosa la pagina para saber las tendencias, saludos desde Catalonia
  • web
    Apr 18, 2009
    This is a great collection
  • Adam
    Jul 17, 2009
    Wow way cooler typography than the other page I just checked out.
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  • Penang web design
    Jul 30, 2010
    thank you for rounding up these examples…
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