18 Creative Examples of Typography & Paragraphs
Written by Stefan Vervoort on October 19, 2008The paragraph is a subject many webdesigners doesn’t even look at when they design a website and therefore they keep their paragraphs simple. But with some more attention to this part of typography we could improve the look of our whole site.
In an article I have written some time back I have shown you how you can use CSS to improve your paragraph’s typography without much hassle.
Today I will give you some creative (as far as creationism goes with paragraphs) and good looking examples of sites that did work on their paragraphs. These examples with different colors, backgrounds, sizes and typefaces should give you some inspiration for your own site!
This article is written by:
Name: Stefan Vervoort
URL: http://www.divitodesign.com
Description: I am a 18-year-old webdesigner and blogger from Waalwijk, the Netherlands. I also blog at WPTOY and work at DivitoMedia.
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Good examples!
Nice tips. Thanks.
You should really consider enabling cleartype/font smoothing.
Great list! Thanks for sharing. Some of them I’ve never seen before, nice inspiration. Are you working with windowsXP? Maby you should take a look at cleartype, this enhances the typography to a more smootly looking type.
Hey thanks! ClearType is working fine and it looks good.
Hey, thanks so much for including FiveRuns in your list of interesting typography. Design is extremely important to us as a company and we appreciate the recognition!
- Al, FiveRuns
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Good post, and very true! I must admin that I don’t pay enough attention to styling paragraphs in most cases. It’s just something you take for granted in most cases… Such a loss cause it indeed can do a lot good to webdesign!
Thanks for sharing!
really nice looking, must change my site to make it look nicer to look at.
Great examples! Thanks for including anidandesign.com in your list
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I was about to say you didn’t include iLoveTypography, but then saw it. Aren’t some of those designers amazing type-icians?
I would also recommend Chris Pearson’s designs in general – Copyblogger and Thesis themes have beautiful typography.
Hey, thanks for including us on the list.
Some great inspirational examples there thanks
I have always loved typography and the effect it has, turning a simple textual paragraph into art. I plan on using some of the ideas when I re-design my blog to version 2.
Thanks for the post!
Nice typography tips and the presentation, letterings are really good. It has giving me lots of ideas for designing posters and blogs. Thanks a lot.
Great tips and good ideas for my blogs
thank´s
Some great examples. I’m really going to use them in the future designs i make.
Great tips and explanation.
The sky’s the limit it seeems when trying to design a attractive site. There are almost too many choices….makes it tougher! I just tend to use the two or three most common fonts not knowing what browser a reader may be using.
Nice post, I haven’t really thought about styling paragraphs that much apart from an increased line-height and maybe a decreased letter-spacing. I like the examples with the lined paper background image, it wouldn’t work on all sites though.
Really an interesting and informative Post,it is a type of post which I was searching since long. thanks for a good article.
Hmmm…Yes I could see this working. I have to implement this strategy into my my BLOG to let me know your thoughts on how I could help let me know. thanks
I agree that not enough attention is paid to the layout out text throughout the majority of standard websites. This has been an issue for a long time, the main reason is that regulary viewed websites are business websites, and as such businesses feel they must portray a professional image. It is considered that professional is simple, standard and common, the result of which is an overwhelming number of websites following the same suit.
There is, however, light over the hill. Large organisations are starting to recognise the benefits of visually appealing websites and are not exercising new possibilities, allowing for better presented and more colourful websites.
We are far from what is possible on the Internet, but those who stand out now will reap the benefits of the future of the Internet.
Wow nice tips and really great examples thank you for this awesome list.
Thank you for taking time to post so good articles.
Wonderful tipps – thank you!
I am a big fan of typography and the effect it has.
This article is a great inspirational resource.
Thank you for effort to build this list.
Kind Regards
Alwin Red
Good examples,We are going to put these tips to work in our up and coming blog