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Thursday, February 7, 2013

The retro theme has exploded in recent years with nostalgic styles becoming popular in fashion, photo and video. In the web design industry the emergence of the retro or vintage trend has kind of evolved from the “grunge theme”, with designs taking inspiration from a particular era in history. This post showcases 30 website designs that perfectly execute the retro style, with aged textures, muted colours and impactful typography.

CG Inspired

Cast Iron Design Company

La Bubbly

VonDutch

Bitfoundry

Barrelhouse Flat

Two Fish Illustration & Design

Brock Kenzler

Trailer Park Truck

Forefathers Group

Duggard

Friendly Gents

Blind Barber

Tommy

Lyudmil Shoshorov

Urbanoff

Tom, Dick & Harry Creative Co.

Kitchen Sink Studios

Forever Heavy

These Are Things

Rob Edwards

Cascade Brewery Co.

Pulpfingers

Theory

The Mischief Co.

Matt Hovland

Austin Beerworks

Build Responsively Workshop

Since we were granted the ability to make font choices beyond Helvetica and Georgia thanks to the @font-face rule and the various webfonts services we’ve seen an explosion of custom webfonts in website designs. Nowadays we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to web typography, but which fonts and custom webfont services are the top web designers using? Let’s take a look behind a collection of well crafted typographic designs and see which fonts and techniques are the most popular.