18 Bold & Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design

“Web design is 95% typography.” That quote has been repeated around the internet so many times it has practically become gospel – probably because it’s true. While images are important, most of what we process while browsing the web is text. Using the same old boring fonts doesn’t make for exciting design, so some graphic artists have turned typography on the web into a stunning art form unto itself. These 18 websites use typography to inform, but also as an (often interactive) design element that’s like a magnet for our eyeballs.

Flip This Home! 10 Unbelievable Upside Down Houses

Upside down houses: they're more common then you think... but why? Maybe they just wanted to stand out from the crowd. In that at least, they've succeeded.

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Even Robots Get the Blues: Photos by Markku Lahdesmaki

Robots do laundry, ride bicycles, hit the sauce and hang out in seedy parts of town in an imagined world where they coexist with humans in relative peace.

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Primates: Humans in Their Natural Form [NSFW]

We've come to think of humans as the masters of the planet, but individually we are still small and vulnerable. This lovely photo series captures our frailty.

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Nine Eyes: A Human Perspective on Google Street View

Compilations of unusual Google Street View images aren't hard to find. But artist Jon Rafman compiles the touching human images most people never see.

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Gallery of Pseudo-Victorian, Steampunkesque & Retro Robots

These creative technological inventions have a streak of steampunk, robots built into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical fantasy or steampunkesque robot art.

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Creepy Dolls: 12 Weird and Scary Kids Toys

Here are 12 toys targeted to kids that are just plain bizarre, or are so terrifying, they could very well traumatize you and your children.

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Word on the Street: 14 Fun Urban Street Ads

Advertisers take to the streets with ads that turn asphalt, manholes and sewer grates into surprisingly effective marketing platforms.

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Ghost Ships: Ten Scary Spirits Of The Seven Seas

Mysterious ghost ships with missing crews have spiced the tales of mariners for hundreds of years. Here are ten of the scariest ships you ever will "sea".

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Dial4Light: Turning Street Lights On Via Mobile Phone

A groundbreaking cost-cutting, energy-saving program in Germany called Dial4Light requires pedestrians to activate street lights using their cell phones.

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