Recently there appears to have been a trend towards textured backgrounds in web design. They’ve always been around in web design but have risen in popularity recently. They can add a bit of interest or create a much needed extra layer of depth on a web design. The following are good examples of textured backgrounds.
Rocket Club
Bright Creative
Design Commission
Happy Dangy Diggy
Elliot Jay Stocks
Simone Maranzana
Dojo Design Studio
Jeff Sarmiento
Super Kix
TheManInTheSea
Crush + Lovely
Toby Powell
Cube Club Chemnitz
tweetCC
Sinetics
Sushi & Robots
That’s right, textured background for web design always be a good solution nowadays, so it will become easier when we want to change some taste if we feel bored with the site old background.
Nice article, Tom. However, I’m not sure that I would put all these sites under the “texture” umbrella. Like Simone’s site, for example. I’m a web dev who has been running my own design biz for almost a year now, and all the research I’ve done separates out textures & patterns. I guess the difference for me has been repeating (patterns) vs. non-repeating (texture). But what do I know?
There’s no reason why textures can’t be repeating.
Cool showcase, but I’ve never been a fan of, nor have I utilized a textured background with four distinct edges.
If I have to use a textured background, I typically fade it from top to bottom, opaque to transparent. It’s easy using a PNG (alpha channel), but if its texture is more complex than simple, I’ll use a JPG.
Thanks for the showcase.