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30 Blog Designs with Killer Typography

A killer design is one thing – but one that also uses the right typography is (in my opinion) on a whole other level compared to those that just ‘look pretty’. Typography is needed with blog designs because, well, the blog is built to speak your mind, right? So, if your blog isn’t readable then it fails to do it’s job.

So today I’m going to show you 30 awesome blog designs that have killer typography and also do a well rounded job of making things look nice and also making things readable. I hope you enjoy the inspiration.

Inspect Element ↓

Inspect Element

Burciaga ↓

Burciaga

Nuwomb Creative ↓

Nuwomb Creative

Down With Webster ↓

Down With Webster

Brian Casel ↓

Brian Casel

Looks Like Good Design ↓

Looks Like Good Design

Design Chapel ↓

Design Chapel

I Love Typography ↓

I love typography

All City’s Graffiti Blog ↓

All City Graffiti Blog

Future Buro ↓

Future Buro

Comfort Brothers ↓

Comfort Brothers

Brian Hoff ↓

Brian Hoff

AEXT.NET ↓

AEXT

Creative Week ↓

Creative Week

How I Took It ↓

How I Took It

One By Four ↓

One By Four

Stereo Super ↓

Stereo Super

Abduzeedo ↓

Abduzeedo

UX Booth ↓

UX Booth

Gaby Castellanos ↓

Gaby Castellanos

Corking Design ↓

Corking Design

Curious Romain ↓

Curious Romain

Web App Storm ↓

Web App Storm

Pallian Creative ↓

Pallian Creative

The Visual Click ↓

The Visual Click

Cuisine Saine ↓

Cuisine Saine

Brad Ruggles ↓

Brad Ruggles

The Swish Life ↓

The Swish Life

Fubiz ↓

Fubiz

Westcoast Poppin ↓

Westcoast Poppin

And now we pass it on to you…

Do you run a blog that has great typography? Did you achieve this by using a good combination of web-safe typefaces, using the right weights, line-height, etc…? Or did you use something like @font-face or Cufón? Let us know in the comments.

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  • User Gravatar Mr.MoOx
    March 1st, 2010

    Nice selection ! My last creation have a killer typo too :) http://dame-bio.fr/

  • User Gravatar Jeroen Homan
    March 1st, 2010

    Great list, as a type-loving designer I’m always on the lookout for some new inspiration, so thanks!

  • User Gravatar Amberly | Web Designer
    March 1st, 2010

    Nice round up.. You have listed some of the best in the business. Very inspiring collection

    According to me Abduzeedo is the best in the list. its is easy to read their contents and blog.

    Thanks for sharing this awesome list.

  • User Gravatar Jenna Molby
    March 1st, 2010

    Great list, thanks for sharing!

  • User Gravatar Mahmudur Rahman
    March 2nd, 2010

    Wow :) Awesome collection of blog. Really nice designs. Thanks for sharing this nice list.

  • User Gravatar SmashingWebs.com
    March 2nd, 2010

    Really great one. Thanks for the post.

  • User Gravatar Lam Nguyen
    March 2nd, 2010

    Hey, glad when see my blog mentioned here! Thanks Mike and it’s a pretty great list!

  • User Gravatar kruz
    March 2nd, 2010

    Very beautiful sites!. Thanks for the inspiration!

  • User Gravatar Tanya
    March 2nd, 2010

    Great designs. I love designs with typography. Thnx mate for sharing this with us

  • User Gravatar Erwin Setiawan
    March 2nd, 2010

    Nice, thx for share.. ^^

  • User Gravatar LONO
    March 2nd, 2010

    Great share!! inspiring stuff

  • User Gravatar Smashing Buzz
    March 2nd, 2010

    really beautiful web design which belong to typography techniques.

  • User Gravatar Alessio
    March 2nd, 2010

    I’d have to say Brian Hoff’s is my favorite on this list. He has so much delicious whitespace that it makes even his relatively small type effective. The colors are great, too, it’s rare to see a clean site with nice color rather than just white.

  • User Gravatar Melody
    March 2nd, 2010

    Definitely some inspiring designs here..makes me think about changing my own around..

  • User Gravatar Mia
    March 2nd, 2010

    Although I am familiar with most of the above featured sites , there are a few I have not seen before . However, my all time fave’s are the : Inspect Element , Curious Romain & Abduzeedo although all of the other sites are rockin as well .
    BTW: Melody’s site is also rockin ! [ Kudos @Melody - great site you got there ! ]
    This was by far a great roundup of sites w great typography Mike :) good post !

    M.

  • User Gravatar Jack Grey
    March 2nd, 2010

    http://www.yun4.net have great typography as well

  • User Gravatar Nenad
    March 3rd, 2010

    And where is the explanation of “Why is this site in category of great typography designs?”? Although I like the list style posts and blogs I’m disappointed when I see no explanations or descriptions at all. I think it would be OK to drop at least a line about every design. And to be honest with you to me typography on all of sites is almost the same, although I did have find some interesting designs on list.

  • User Gravatar jay design
    March 3rd, 2010

    Nice collection of sites. I think getting the balance between a mixture of serif and sans serif fonts on a website can really make an impact on the design.

  • User Gravatar Charley
    March 4th, 2010

    Saw that pretty nice page via the HTML5 gallery from 101besthtml5sites.com:

    http://on-air.hiseo.fr/fatras/.....tml5-css3/

  • User Gravatar Codemaster Snake
    March 5th, 2010

    This is a great list. Really inspired me to add some bold typography in my blog and website also.

    Thanks for the list though!!!

  • User Gravatar Ciprian Palici
    March 8th, 2010

    Thank you for listing me! but mine is just basic typo choosen carefully :)

  • User Gravatar Rakesh Suryavardhan
    March 9th, 2010

    Thanks for sharing, actually typography is still a confusing thing for me. Any reference to good typography?

  • User Gravatar Mike Smith
    March 9th, 2010

    @Rakesh, you can check out this list of twitter people to follow who all post and write about typography :)

    http://spyrestudios.com/typography-twitter-follow/

  • User Gravatar Lou's Web Design
    March 9th, 2010

    Georgia,
    Georgia,
    Italic Georgia..
    Oh and Helvetica lol

    I love typography but can’t seem to implement stylish fonts into my blog.

    Lou

  • User Gravatar Agentur Siegen
    April 13th, 2010

    Thank you for posting these great collection.very nice templates!

  • User Gravatar typoth
    April 17th, 2010

    inspiring.. thanks for sharing.

  • User Gravatar Dan Sylvan
    July 26th, 2010

    Inspirational to say the least! Some gorgeous imaginations at work!

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