When you browse the Internet or look for well-designed websites in CSS galleries or any other source of design inspiration, you’ll see that textures and patterns have become very common in modern Web design. Besides being almost a trend textures in web design is popular for a reason. Textures can be used in nearly endless ways and if you look for it you will notice that it is actually all over the place. In some cases visitors hardly mention it and in other cases textures are used as the main design element or for highlighting specific parts of the page.

Using patterns of real life things as design elements on a website can give it very realistic and laid back look and feel. In particular paper texture has been used a lot lately as backgrounds for the entire pages, in navigation, around featured content areas and so on. However paper texture is Scans and images of paper provides an informal, cut-and-paste collage feeling to the design giving the site more of a personal and hand-crafted image – quite opposite to the clean and shiny trend of other web design styles.

In this post, I will showcase beautiful and awesome examples of paper inspired website design and give some advice for finding good quality free paper textures.

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Paper Texture in Web Design

1. EmailFuture

2. Shoebox Blog

3. 5pts

4. Ximena Ruiz

5. Lokalisten Sprechblase

6. Not Your Average Joe

7. Spoon Graphics

8. Edgepoint Church

9. Literary Bohemian

10. Jared Campbell

11. Web Smarty

12. Edu.tnVacation

13. Arounddorsetwalk

14. Time for Cake

15. Swing Theory

16. Dawghouse Design Studio

17. Web-g

18. Viget

19. Noel Design

20. Tohavit

21. DK Publishing

22. Resume Girl

23. Dopheide Ministries

24. Eric’s Empire

25. Bien Bien Bien

26. Vsplash

27. Spring Time

28. Cassys Design

29. Think Design Blog

30. Light Techo

31. Free People Clothing

32. Sprocket House

33. VCU Office of Undergraduate

34. Gardening With Children

35. Mouse To Minx

How to find Paper Texture

Paper texture is easy to find if you know where to look. A good place to start is free stock photo site. As an example see this search on www.sxc.hu where 50 pages x20 paper textures are returned.

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Author : Dustin Betonio

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Dustin Betonio

Dustin Betonio is a Translation Management graduate at University of Mindanao. His earlier career was devoted on customer service outside the information highway. Currently studying Law in the same University.

35 Awesome Examples of Paper Texture Inspired Website Design