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Big Fonts in Web Design

Web design has its own limitation, and us, web designers, have been working and learning how to overcome these constraints to create better solutions. Typography is our most important asset and we're seeing that designers are applying old concepts that they've learned from print design and applying to web design, in the right way. That's why we've been seeing more and more big contrasts in font sizes.

In this post we selected some pages that we have for inspiration to show you that.





















































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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 25 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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14 Comments

Anepic08/08/2009

Hmmmmmm do I see some Bebas in the second one??? My favorite font at the moment!! Everyone go get it! It's siiiick!!

Alec Schmidt
http://www.behance.net/anepic

gusobral08/08/2009

amazing post

Win08/09/2009

amazing!

Coleman81108/09/2009

Hey awesome sites!!! check out my site! I promise you, it has some BIG fonts!

http://www.ryan-coleman.ca

Yash08/09/2009

That's an amazing collection you are displaying. Though I am trying a bit in this direction, never thought I would see such a variety at one place.
Thank you very much. Keep it up!

David Boni08/09/2009

I've got a soft-spot for tightly kerned, all-caps sans-serifs. I can't seem to find a use for bold slab-serifs as some of these great websites here use. They remind me too much of children's wooden alphabet blocks (though I do love Inkcover's titling).

http://www.davidboni.net

designstd.com08/09/2009

Sometimes i find big fonts are good to be used , depending on the concept we are work on.

Eduardo Sasso08/09/2009

Great post, awesome introduction. "Typography is our most important asset" - priceless

Freddix08/09/2009

watch out my business site:

www.agentur-farbrausch.com

edumicro08/09/2009

Eu não desgosto "big fonts" mas acho que actualmente estão a ser usadas em demasia, de tal forma que se torna enjoativo. Continuo a preferir fontes de tamanho médio e pequenas. (paixão por pixel fonts) :P

Anonymous08/10/2009

Speaking of the importance of type, there's an error in the second sentence of your opening paragraph.

"...we've seen that designers are really apply old concepts"

I have no idea what that means

Timothy08/10/2009

Nice list. Big fonts rock

LiviaLucie08/10/2009

Bigger the better ;]
I love the bright one from Ryan Keiser, although it makes me need my sun glasses.

Louis L.08/11/2009

Am I the only one that thinks most of these sites are ugly and unusable?

More and more I'm thinking Jakob Nielsen is right.

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