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.

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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