Using a dark color palette in a web design can be effective in creating a variety of moods and meanings — edgy, hip, elegant and strong to enumerate a few. Here’s a showcase of beautiful dark websites for your inspiration.
A fine way to jumpstart any design project is to look at inspiring visuals, especially when your creativity is a bit depleted. After reviewing many sites, in this roundup, I’ll present my handpicked, top favorite websites for seeing examples of beautiful logos.
Using repeating background patterns as a web design element can result in a unique look and feel. Background patterns can add intricacy, complexity and visual variety to any web design. This collection is a follow-up to the visual inspiration showcase we previously published called Background Patterns in Web Design: 30 Beautiful Examples (please check it out as well for 30 additional excellent examples).
Using repeating, tiled patterns as a background in a web page layout is a popular design technique. When done well, using background patterns can make a web design look sophisticated, intricate and memorable. In this visual inspiration collection, you’ll see 30 websites that use a variety of beautiful background patterns (e.g. diagonal stripes, cross-hatching, dots and so on).
This collection of downloadable PSD freebies of web buttons features calls to action buttons, social media buttons, download buttons and other GUI buttons from top-notch websites and designers. Using PSDs made by these talented and generous designers can help you speed up the completion of your projects. You can also download, experiment and study the files to learn new UI design techniques.
Geometric sans-serif fonts look clean and professional, with a contemporary flare about them. Use this class of fonts when you desire elegance and modernity in your designs. This is our second collection of free geometric sans-serif fonts. Check out the first collection as well.
Using retro-styled elements is one of the more recent design trends. The free fonts featured here are free script fonts that can evoke a retro feel in your design projects. Note that most of the fonts in this collection are better off when used as display fonts (they can become illegible at small sizes).
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