50 Inspiring Examples of Texture in Web Design

Posted by Gisele Muller on Jul 27, 2010 | 44 Comments

Our first post showcasing 50 Inspiring Textured Web Designs was a success and we received many nice comments and great feedback from you guys – something we love by the way. So, based on that and also to show you that textures are a hit and there is always something new popping up, we gathered this fresh list of textured sites. With this list you will be able to see that a great choice of texture can really help your design, from delicate and really subtle textures to strong and colorful ones, they are indeed versatile and stylish.

Kritzel Music

Trapp Family Lodge

Solid Giant

CouchCreative

Rocket Club

Pilates El Paso

New Adventures in web design

Vector Stories

SimpleBits

W+K Studio

Hummingbird and Maskarade

Life Church

Frexy

e-One

Justin Cosgrove

MapBox

Reklama-Audio

Carlos

Cafundo Estudio

Creative Connection

Enliven

Sanctuary T Shop

Cooper Graphic Design

bahur78

Collision

Thomas Bishop

Harry Ford

Hugs for Monsters

Jason Stockman

David Hellmann

All for Design

brows portfolio

Miles Dowsett

Ali Felski

a simple measure

Rachel Comey Men’s

All Star Lanes

Figtree Network

Jumbalaya

United Pixelworkers

GreenOlivz

weblounge

Marie Catribs

Allen Solly

Salt of the Earth

six11ink

Cannolificio Mongibello

bright creative

Francesco Molezzi

arqandgraph

Sources:

The Best Designs
Site Inspire

About the Author

Gisele Muller is someone that recently discovered a new career online. A person that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. An eternal geek wannabe, tech fan and a communication lover! Current location: San Bruno, CA – USA. Twitter: @gismullr

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44 comments

Good Web Design
July 27, 2010
Massive! Nice list. And yes. Using a good texture (and used the right way) lot of a difference… Would be funny to take out the textures and compare..
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Lauren
July 27, 2010
Lovely selections, texture is great. These sites are very inspiring and many I have not seen. Thanks for sharing.
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Reed Botwright
July 27, 2010
Great list! The effective use of texture can really give depth to a website. Mix this with good photography and typography, and you have a killer combination. We used the texture of smoke on our site.
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steve
July 27, 2010
people really like league gothic. thanks.
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cone crusher
July 27, 2010
i think people really like league gothic. thanks for share
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maher
July 27, 2010
wooow very cool websites thanks
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Arshad Cini
July 27, 2010
Some great usage of textures

Thanks Gisele
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Exionyte
July 27, 2010
Really nice textures presented here.

Thanks for sharing
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Harry Ford
July 27, 2010
Thanks for including my site guys. Really like the ‘All Star Lanes’ & ‘Ali Felski’ sites.
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Helen Gizi
July 27, 2010
Thank you for including vectorstories in these great list
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kritdeo
July 27, 2010
Wow, these are really very creative designs. I hope I could steal some ideas from them to implement on my website http://www.bizz24x7.com

Friends, please have a look on my this website and suggest if you have some ideas for it.
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Jordan Walker
July 27, 2010
I like web design with texture, seems to stand out more than solid colors.
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Attitude Design | Graphic Design Portfolio
July 27, 2010
Some really cool designs here – thanks for the post.
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matt
July 27, 2010
Great roundup, thanks!
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Kelsey
July 27, 2010
This is one of the first articles i’ve seen in the last few months with really new original stuff. Way to dig nice work!
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Divyesh Ardeshana
July 27, 2010
very good collection & ideas….
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Bay Area Designer
July 27, 2010
these are all beautiful. thanks for the collection!
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uk
July 27, 2010
excellent collection ! I really like it
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Sean Rosensteel
July 27, 2010
Very cool stuff. It’s amazing how much is out there these days, and I think it’s safe to say that sky is the limit! Keep more inspirational entries like this coming!
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Octavio Corral
July 27, 2010
Thanks for the mention with the Pilates El Paso website!
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Kristof at Weblounge
July 27, 2010
Hey guys, thank you for having my site (Weblounge.be) in your topic! Feel free to stop by whenever you want!
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Rob Loukotka
July 27, 2010
Thanks for including us in this list! Some really great work here, it’s always fun to see how our work fits into these kind of collections.

Rock.

–Rob
Collision Labs
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David the Web Designer
July 27, 2010
Thanks for posting, great collection, lots of depth to these designs…
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Brad - Gold Coast Guy
July 27, 2010
Great collection of different textures. Very inspiring!
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Joanna @BOCOCreative
July 27, 2010
Lovely designs – texture makes a whole lot of difference. Thanks for putting it together.
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Edison A. Leon
July 27, 2010
Beautiful selection! That can get me inspired now
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Thomas
July 28, 2010
Thanks for featuring my site again (amongst these extremely talented designers), guys! Really love all your features/articles!
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Raelin
July 28, 2010
beautiful collection of sites. It is amazing how the correct combination of textures, colors and illustrations can make such a world of difference to a site.
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Lovetextures
July 28, 2010
What a great collection, book marked this for inspiration excellent work
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Warren Jerzyszek
July 28, 2010
Not only have you shared with us 50 inspiring examples of textures but you have shown us a collection of amazing examples of websites. I really like the e-One site, to pick a clear winner is very hard, the level of design and layout in each site makes it choice. Thanks for the inspiring post, it definitely was inspiring.
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TheodorosPloumis
July 28, 2010
Thanks Gisele.
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Ben Daly Mohamed
July 28, 2010
Very inspiring collection !!
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Vectorbunker
July 28, 2010
really cool, Ctrl+d
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Federico Capoano
July 28, 2010
Cool, I really like textures, infact I also do use them in my web-site.
Be careful with the total size of the page though! I had to do a lot of optimization and base64 encoding to get an average good loading speed.
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Edmonton Wedding Photographer
July 28, 2010
I’ve used texture, or we have a template that was fitted with a texture and I just love the effect and dimension that is gives a flat page. This is a great list and really diverse examples of ow they can be used. Thanks for sharing.
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Justin Cosgrove
July 28, 2010
Thanks for featuring my site. Were very proud of it. Steve Mullen did a fantastic job and it was well worth the investment.

I wanted awesome textures and a modern/hip look and feel. Most recording engineer sites look like something made on geocities in the early 90′s when HTML was young and full of energy. I didn’t want to portray some 80′s burnout engineer with a crappy looking site. So we came together and this is the result of our brainstorming and his fantastic web design skills.

Thanks again! And enjoy!
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Tucker Graczkowski
July 29, 2010
Texture is one thing I want to use more of in my designs, so I greatly appreciate this list. Thanks!
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kumbi
July 30, 2010
SolidGiant is solid, and i really dig the Reklama-Audio site too! it immediately reminded me of another Polish site i liked for its rich textures.. http://www.sparkup.pl/en/main
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Olly Bowman
July 30, 2010
Thanks, very inspiring!
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Vintarah
August 1, 2010
Nice! Indeed, this is one inspiring list of great designs. Thank you Gisele for posting this.
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Andrew
August 2, 2010
Wow, what a great collection of fantastic work! I am very inspired!!!

I love the fact that there are so many talented designer out there!!!
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Kaue Ribeiro
August 2, 2010
Great list!!
Thanks for putting this list together.
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Dustin P.
August 2, 2010
Really great article! Some really inspiring designs to be used for those future creative blocks! Bookmarked and featured this post in my Tweets of the Week! http://bit.ly/aP30Aa
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Jeff Jones
September 14, 2010
Some really nice examples of Texture in web design, Cheers!
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