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Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs

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Textures have become more popular and been put to greater use in recent years. They’re not limited to Web design either; textures of all kinds are used in print design, illustration, traditional art, TV commercials… you name it! Texture is one of the best ways to add depth to your design, whether it’s subtle noise on a clean vector illustration or a lot of grunginess throughout a layout. THS Over the last weeks we collected numerous examples of beautiful textured Web designs to inspire you, followed by a small collection of links to help you get started in using textures in your own designs.

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Textures have become more popular and been put to greater use in recent years. They’re not limited to Web design either; textures of all kinds are used in print design, illustration, traditional art, TV commercials… you name it! Texture is one of the best ways to add depth to your design, whether it’s subtle noise on a clean vector illustration or a lot of grunginess throughout a layout.

Over the last weeks we collected numerous examples of beautiful textured Web designs to inspire you, followed by a small collection of links to help you get started in using textures in your own designs.

If you like this post, you may be interested in reading some of our other texture-related articles:

Textured Web Designs

Loukotka

Loukotka

FT Designer

FT Designer

Cole & Weber

Cole & Weber

Jason Julien

Jason Julien

Trinity Irish Pub

Trinity Irish Pub

The Klog

Klog

Alex Coleman

Alex Coleman

Bergedorf

Bergedorf

Big Cartel

Big Cartel

Stuck in Customs

Stuck in Customs

Bill C. English

Bill C. English

Boerne Wild West Day

Boerne Wild West Day

Brown Blog Films

Brown Blog Films

Chouteaus Landing

Chouteaus Landing

Ctrl+N Diseño Gráfico

Ctrl+N Diseño Gráfico

Cubeclub Chemnitz

Cubeclub Chemnitz

Danny Diablo

Danny Diablo

Demain Jarrete

Demain Jarrete

DH Cards

DH Cards

Dibtych

Dibtych

Douglas Menezes

Douglas Menezes

Eliseos

Eliseos

Fudge

Fudge

5 Pieces

5 Pieces

Glocal Ventures

Glocal Ventures

Handcrafted CSS

Handcrafted CSS

Inner Metro Green

Inner Metro Green

Introzo

Introzo

53 Mondays

53 Mondays

Island Photobooth

Island Photobooth

Mutant Labs

Mutant Labs

Legwork Studio

Legwork Studio

Le Web Défi

Le Web Défi

Lilly Stable

Lilly Stable

Love Freelancing

Love Freelancing

Mark Forrester

Mark Forrester

Markup & Style

Markup & Style

Martin Anderle

Martin Anderle

Matt Salik

Matt Salik

Merge Web

Merge Web

Meson Projekt Blog

Meson Projekt Blog

Morphix

Morphix

Mother Earth Brewing

Mother Earth Brewing

New to York

New to York

Orange Label

Orange Label

Pampaneo

Pampaneos

Piz’za-za

Piz'za-za

River City Church

River City Church

Roar 4 Milk

Roar 4 Milk

Saddleback Leather

Saddleback Leather

Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow

Story Pixel

Story Pixel

Sushi and Robots

Sushi and Robots

Texture Lovers

Texture Lovers

Tony Chester

Tony Chester

Yodaa

Yodaa

What Is Blik

What Is Blik

Yellow Bird Project

Yellow Bird Project

Thunder Fuel

Thunder Fuel

THS

THS

Texture Downloads

Texture Tutorials

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