25 Excellent Examples of Using Texture in Web Design
Here on WDL, I’ve shown you where to find plenty of amazing free textures, and we’ve given you some exclusive textures as well. Now that you have access to all these resources, I want to give you some inspiration for how you might use them in web design. You’ll notice that some of the designs below make heavy use of textures, while others take a more subtle approach. Each method works well and compliments the content while adding lots of visual interest.
Bush Theatre
Revive Africa
R.U.4 Children
Jason Julien
Ecoki
meshU
Rocket Club
Alpine Meadows
Gary Knock
Bart-Jan Verhoef
Pikaboo
Huxley Prairie Festival
Bridge 55
Jobs on the Wall
84 Colors
Douglas Menezes
Sarah Longnecker
Simple Flame
Crush + Lovely
Danny Diablo
Dawghouse Design Studio
FeedStitch
Ali Felski
Black Wave Creative
Carbonica
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44 comments
Mike Smith
June 25, 2009Great round up. Definitely inspiring as I have a design of similar styles to create tomorrow.
Minerva
June 25, 2009Very beautiful collection. Especially Ecoki is nice.
Brandon Cox
June 25, 2009Now THIS is a humbling post – every single one of these designs is awe-inspiring!! They rock!
Humble Idiot
May 9, 2011Do you even know what humble means? Just saying
Dusan
June 25, 2009Great collection, some of these sites are so pretty
Andreas Øverland
June 25, 2009Very cool. Quite a contrast to the shininess of many other, also cool, website designs. Very inspiring.
roc
June 25, 2009Nice Job! Looks beautiful.
Mai
June 25, 2009Ali felski got my vote, very nice and inspiring…pikaboo too well done guys.
Brett Shumaker
June 25, 2009Wonderful sites…wish I had done them. hah! Also…looks like you caught your tweet deck in the Mesh U screenshot.
Henry
June 25, 2009@Brett Shumaker – Ha! Good catch. Not sure how I missed that.
Gopal Raju
June 25, 2009Truly inspiring!
Gopal Raju,
productivedreams.com
w3planting
June 25, 2009great collection , these are really awesome
84 Colors
meshU
Gary Knock
Bridge 55
Black Wave Creative
evertt de sousa
June 25, 2009woow very nice post
thanks
Cam
June 25, 2009I have really been feeling textures on sites of late. Great timing.
Rick
June 25, 2009It depends on the purpose of the website.
“Texture” can end up being the enemy of functionality.
A railway website needs to be functional. Most people just want to find out how to get from A to B and when to turn up.
Cuddlyness gets in the way sometimes!
example: Swiss Rail – http://www.rail.ch
Refreshingly simple and efficient….
Jake
June 25, 2009Truly inspirational collection, thanks for the post!
Brian Feister
June 25, 2009Excellent roundup. Love the Ecoki site particularly!
Adam T. Janes
June 26, 2009These texture inspirations might just take my site to another level. ty
Daniel
June 26, 2009A lot more examples of using texture here:
http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/texture
squareart
June 26, 2009Thanks for the inspiration! Some cool sites here.
Smith
June 27, 2009All designs are beautiful.
Thank you for sharing your Valuable information.
As I am also working for web design this information will help me increase my knowledge.
Roald André
June 27, 2009Awsome!
9swords
June 28, 2009Amazing round up! Douglas Menezes’s site is really something to admire for it’s originality.
create own website
June 28, 2009very beautiful web designs i wonder how their designers make them!!
Nicholas Z. Cardot
June 28, 2009I love texture in design. In my opinion it looks so much better than glossy sites!
2pxborder
June 29, 2009Nice post, thanks
Sarah Lynn
June 29, 2009Great post! I agree with Nicholas in saying it is much better than gloss. More inviting and friendly, hands down. Thanks!
Alisa Rogers
July 2, 2009A good collection. I would say that just use the one that you need, I think the author not really want you to use everything here, we all know that we have our own style, we use different tools to design those tools we are comfortable using. This is just a variety of tools that maybe one of these are your must-have-tools.
maflewdesigns
July 4, 2009great! very nice. thanks
Annie
July 10, 2009Ha ha! The designer for StitchFeed left an amusing easter egg for visitors with 29″ monitors.
Luke Jones
July 17, 2009Nice round-up, particularly like Feedstitch and Carbonica.
sunny
August 19, 2009thanks for ur share!
Carl Smart
September 8, 2009Great post, great selection.
Joanna
October 29, 2009using texture in design is a growing trend that I love, love, love. The trick is to incorporate it into the design while retaining a clean look. Those are excellent examples how that’s possible.
Rohit Arondekar
October 30, 2009Hey nice collection – you might want to look at http://www.mesonprojekt.com – one more of the texture types
Peach
November 28, 2009Very nice collection indeed.
Azterik Media
December 4, 2009The Dawghouse Design Studio site is fantastic. Kudos to their website designers. Thanks for putting this collection together.
Cheers,
Cheryl
Azterik Media
Jan Cavan
December 12, 2009Thanks for including Dawghouse Design Studio to this list!
Aphrodite
July 1, 2010I think there should be elements of texture in all web designs. It can bring the whole look of the page to life.
Tess
July 2, 2010Very nice roundup
The use of textures definitely make a website fresher and less static. Thanks for sharing this.
Andrew
July 2, 2010Bridge 55′s website looks the part, the textures they use for the background and attention to detail really suit their urban theme, some good examples there.
Martin Lucas
July 29, 2010Great list of examples, I don’t think there’s even a design I’d class as just OK in here. They’re all stunning!
Sherwin
September 21, 2010Amazing! These are good examples. I like FeedStitch the most. I like the blend of colors and the fonts used.
arun
June 22, 2011Its an wonderful collection of blog.And Each and Every one templates so well designed.Thanks for sharing these type of posts.