Beautiful Gradient Typography in Web Design
Using color gradients as a type treatment is a very popular technique for creating captivating text in a web design. They’re used in many situations: for site logos, introductory text, visual elements, and more. But be cautious: the only thing that separates stylish and tacky is a few mistakes in your Photoshop settings.
If you’re looking for inspiration and great examples of gradient text treatments in web designs, here are a few to check out.
1. Bainbridge Studios
2. aiAlex
3. Radium
4. Deagostini Bombers of World War II
5. Coda
6. Bird Malaysia
7. atebits
8. Macalicious
9. Idea Foundry
10. iceberg
11. Newism
12. Studio 7 Designs Inc
13. Overture Technologies
14. Your Web Job
15. WPCoder
16. Strutta
17. Hashrocket
18. Mac.AppStorm
19. Hugs
20. Keypoint
21. OnWired
22. Anderbose
23. Uncover
24. Mein Brandenburg
25. Shopify
26. goinnovate
27. Brian Michael Hansen
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Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.
16 Comments
Bryan Hughes
October 20th, 2009
Good selections, and they all look good, but I’d love to see some more creative uses of gradients. Most of these selections, though very well executed, look like pretty standard use.
Mike Smith
October 20th, 2009
I think that gradients should be used as much as possible, unless you’re going for the minimal, flat style layout. With the types of websites in the list, gradients are a must.
Good list!
Kendall
October 20th, 2009
Gradients are definitely one of those cases in which less is more. Great roundup–I thought it would be too simplistic, but I was pleasantly surprised!
Callum
October 20th, 2009
What I’ve noticed is that the smaller the change of colour the better the gradient looks.
Dzinepress
October 20th, 2009
i really like web 2.0 gradients which you listing design inspirations, amazing designs.
Angela
October 20th, 2009
Great showcase Jacob!
Hamdent
October 20th, 2009
Falun Gong is very good.
Ben
October 20th, 2009
Nice showcase here… It makes me notice that when the gradient is nice, the website itself is nice as well (most of the time)
Shane
October 21st, 2009
Really nice collection, some really subtle but effective gradients.
Thanks for sharing.
Evan Jones
October 22nd, 2009
Subtle gradients go a long way in making a great website design. Always makes me smile.
Singpore
October 23rd, 2009
Cool showcase. Through little tricks like making subtle gradients you can actually make quite an impact
Mauriti
October 23rd, 2009
Gradients have been a trend for some time but now we see them mixed with other things like textures, pixels and other creative elements breathing new life and freshness in them.
Rob
October 25th, 2009
Very inspirational designs you have on here, looking at these I think I should try integrate these techniques more, well that’s if my clients want it of course :). Have been told not to overuse gradients by several people, but I still use them in some of my designs from time to time.
Rak
April 26th, 2010
atebits – interface is just to die for! Damn that’s good.
Zsolt
September 30th, 2010
Number 8 looks so smooth, i like it…
Nice collection, but some of them are nothing “new”.
Danny
July 28th, 2011
Love number 5! just something about it what just makes it look awesome! Thanks for posting, :)
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