Design your way

Monday, March 31, 2014

Website designers have a lot of tools they can use to create a website. Typography is one of them. If added to an image in the right way, it will direct the website visitor to the place they should be looking, instead of away from it, and will complement the image instead of overpowering it.

There are so many different fonts available and ways to use them, that when designing a website people tend to forget about the total look of the website. When too many visual elements are added, it feels crowded to the website visitor. The right images need to be chosen for display. Typography and images need to be balanced, and placed in the correct proportions to one another, so that visual harmony is achieved.

Mixing different fonts on a single website page is not the easiest thing to do. Some website designers know how to mix and match, with dramatically appealing results. However, a simple approach is usually easier for beginners.

Even the simplest combination of image and font still needs to be balanced. Such things as type size, levels of contrast, background color, and spacing are important features of website typography that should not be overlooked. Typography can make or break the look of a website. Not every font will work effectively over every image, either.

More often than not, the website designers of today are using large images for their websites, because they want to make a bold visual statement to their viewers. The beneficial offshoot of this is that images are beginning to become more important than the elements placed over them. Websites are looking cleaner and smarter as a result.

Below are some examples of website designs that have combined large images with exactly the right amount of typography, and have achieved a beautiful result.