A lot of what we read online depends on how text designing is done. This important custom web design element also typically follows a number of trends these days with a myriad of font and designer alphabet possibilities.

These are some of the trends in the current time:

–> Smudgy, droplet-laden lettering symbolizing a gritty, industrial or urban image is acceptable for logos, titles, labels, headers, website names, and many other short block styles of text.

–>Less cluttering “billboard” style of presentations of larger and bolder lettering in a single statement or concept with more empty space is another trend. This goes well with the font size range of large to huge letters, which sometimes even go off the web page edge.

–>The concept of ‘layering’ keeps the main set of letters translucent so that another set of letters, backgrounds, or imageries show through.

–>An increasingly high number of fonts are now available with nuances and higher customizing freedom to break cross-platform and cross-browser limits for font selection. Using Typekit, one of the @font face CSS based services, a designer can choose from a vast variety of fonts with a focus on typography effects that can cross the platform barriers and provide universal readability.

–>Putting text and message design elements on priority rather than imagery, color, or texture, the minimalism concept provides text with more white space leading to cleaner pages, inclining towards the magazine styles of layout.

Replacing all typography needs, a great scope lies in the tiny avatars, labels, and icons. They actually ‘speak’ and do what a set of fonts could do. The latest trend of iconography is quickly getting common on the web, find them on Facebook, RSS feeds, and so on.