Here on WDL, I’ve shown you where to find plenty of amazing free textures, and we’ve given you some exclusive textures as well. Now that you have access to all these resources, I want to give you some inspiration for how you might use them in web design. You’ll notice that some of the designs below make heavy use of textures, while others take a more subtle approach. Each method works well and compliments the content while adding lots of visual interest.
Bush Theatre
Revive Africa
R.U.4 Children
Jason Julien
Ecoki
meshU
Rocket Club
Alpine Meadows
Gary Knock
Bart-Jan Verhoef
Pikaboo
Huxley Prairie Festival
Bridge 55
Jobs on the Wall
84 Colors
Douglas Menezes
Sarah Longnecker
Simple Flame
Crush + Lovely
Danny Diablo
Dawghouse Design Studio
FeedStitch
Ali Felski
Black Wave Creative
Carbonica
Great round up. Definitely inspiring as I have a design of similar styles to create tomorrow.
Very beautiful collection. Especially Ecoki is nice.
Now THIS is a humbling post – every single one of these designs is awe-inspiring!! They rock!
Do you even know what humble means? Just saying
Great collection, some of these sites are so pretty
Very cool. Quite a contrast to the shininess of many other, also cool, website designs. Very inspiring.
Nice Job! Looks beautiful.
Ali felski got my vote, very nice and inspiring…pikaboo too well done guys.
Wonderful sites…wish I had done them. hah! Also…looks like you caught your tweet deck in the Mesh U screenshot. 🙂
@Brett Shumaker – Ha! Good catch. Not sure how I missed that.
Truly inspiring!
Gopal Raju,
productivedreams.com
great collection , these are really awesome
84 Colors
meshU
Gary Knock
Bridge 55
Black Wave Creative
woow very nice post
thanks
I have really been feeling textures on sites of late. Great timing.
It depends on the purpose of the website.
“Texture” can end up being the enemy of functionality.
A railway website needs to be functional. Most people just want to find out how to get from A to B and when to turn up.
Cuddlyness gets in the way sometimes!
example: Swiss Rail – http://www.rail.ch
Refreshingly simple and efficient….
Truly inspirational collection, thanks for the post!
Excellent roundup. Love the Ecoki site particularly!
These texture inspirations might just take my site to another level. ty
A lot more examples of using texture here:
https://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/texture
Thanks for the inspiration! Some cool sites here.
All designs are beautiful.
Thank you for sharing your Valuable information.
As I am also working for web design this information will help me increase my knowledge.
Awsome!
Amazing round up! Douglas Menezes’s site is really something to admire for it’s originality.
very beautiful web designs i wonder how their designers make them!!
I love texture in design. In my opinion it looks so much better than glossy sites!
Nice post, thanks
Great post! I agree with Nicholas in saying it is much better than gloss. More inviting and friendly, hands down. Thanks!
A good collection. I would say that just use the one that you need, I think the author not really want you to use everything here, we all know that we have our own style, we use different tools to design those tools we are comfortable using. This is just a variety of tools that maybe one of these are your must-have-tools.
great! very nice. thanks
Ha ha! The designer for StitchFeed left an amusing easter egg for visitors with 29″ monitors.
Nice round-up, particularly like Feedstitch and Carbonica.
thanks for ur share!
Great post, great selection.
using texture in design is a growing trend that I love, love, love. The trick is to incorporate it into the design while retaining a clean look. Those are excellent examples how that’s possible.
Hey nice collection – you might want to look at http://www.mesonprojekt.com – one more of the texture types 🙂
Very nice collection indeed.
The Dawghouse Design Studio site is fantastic. Kudos to their website designers. Thanks for putting this collection together.
Cheers,
Cheryl
Azterik Media
Thanks for including Dawghouse Design Studio to this list!
I think there should be elements of texture in all web designs. It can bring the whole look of the page to life. 🙂
Very nice roundup 🙂 The use of textures definitely make a website fresher and less static. Thanks for sharing this.
Bridge 55’s website looks the part, the textures they use for the background and attention to detail really suit their urban theme, some good examples there.
Great list of examples, I don’t think there’s even a design I’d class as just OK in here. They’re all stunning!
Amazing! These are good examples. I like FeedStitch the most. I like the blend of colors and the fonts used.
Its an wonderful collection of blog.And Each and Every one templates so well designed.Thanks for sharing these type of posts.