Examples of Typography in Websites

In this quest for five examples of typography I came across websites: Wordsberg; The Kennedys; Giraffe; The Flight of the Conchords; and Time and Date.
Scouring the internet, I couldn’t help going back to Wordsberg’s website when I started looking for examples of typography on a website. They are so clearly a company that works with words. Although they clutter the words, it’s still spaced and weighted enough to read each individual line. It’s fun how they framed their information between words in their About Us pages.



The next page that caught my eye was The Kennedys Blog. They chose a font dripping with personality. Reminiscent of neon signs, the font on the page flickered on and off, switching from message to message. It was something so alive that it begged to be interacted with.





Giraffe’s landing page was an absolute delight. Their headers and titles had a fun, blocky, punchy text and all their body and copy was perfectly legible. This site shows exactly what hierarchy oftext looks like.


The next two sites are examples typography that isn’t quite there yet.
Flight of the Conchords have so much personality on their landing page, but they missed an opportunity to show off a little more in their content pages. The text is perfectly okay for providing information, but that’s it. It’s very okay.



My phone notified me that it was Orangemen’s Day in Canada, so I decided to look up what that was and Google took me to timeanddate.com. No consideration was given to the scalability of their text and images. I was entertained to first read “Orangemen’s Day in Canada”, then “What do”, and then I scrolled down and read “People Do?”. As a website with a lot of content though, it would be a daunting task to scale every single page of content. This particular website would have over 365 pages to do, but that also sounds like a steady job for a designer.

