Showcase of 40+ Woody Textured Websites with Texture Resources
One of the latest trends in web design is combining the use of textures, images, graphics and type. As there are a wide range of texture resources available, catering to any look and feel is not a problem. Natural looking textures bring harmony to finish up your illustration where else, some textures make it possible to create a variety of interesting effects giving your graphics or images a bit more edge personality. Since wood has become one of the most commonly used texture in websites today, this post gathers how these 44 creative examples have implemented it into their websites.
Showcase of Wood Textured Websites
The reddish hues of the wooden texture here matches very well with the photograph in the background. It gives an overall warm and welcoming feel to the site.
Blogfull Bliss uses shades of light and darkness to bring out the wooden texture. Interesting and subtle way of using wood textures.
The style of the wooden texture used here gives a laid-back feel to the site. Notice the roughness, it gives a raw and edgy effect.
This site shows a great union wooden texture and rainbow colors. Together with big and bold fonts, surely gives a great personality to the site.
This flash site simulated a old movie screen with wooden textured sticks as frames. The mix of other textures and type made the site interesting and attractive.
The wooden textured wall used here is a reddish tone to it, thus gives a welcoming and warm feel to the site. The photo frames, television and other elements used here matches very well with the wall, simulating the internal of an old-school beach house.
If the background used in this site was a smooth 1 tone color, it would have looked serious and corporate. However, the usage of the woody texture here helps bring out the edginess and relaxed look.
The paper cut logo stood out really well on the wooden table. This interesting layout allows you to scroll on the page frame on the right, so it feels as if you are reading a magazine.
The main image shows a very detailed illustration and wood textures here are used very differently. The tables and walls here are created by dark wood textures. The use of light and darkness gave a mysterious effect to this site.
The strong and bold text used against the dark background shown here, shows a great balance of light and darkness. Bright graphics and colors stands out really well when against such a dark texture.
The blue textured background used against the the wooden texture here embraces the look and feel of this site.
The strong apple green horizontal bar sitting against the dark colored wood stood out really well, light and refreshing. The texture used here is dark, so the pink and white from Urban Chip's logo is prominent.
Grayish walnut color tone of this wood texture shows its durability and strength. Overlay background and minimal graphics makes this site simple and easy to navigate.
Dark chocolate color of this wood with details of fine fiber lines creates a great texture for Level 9's background. Even though it is used subtly on the top portion of the site, spot lights are used to draw your attention to the details of the texture.
Another site that uses a reddish tone to the wooden texture. Color and graphics were carefully chosen against the wooden background. Warm and welcoming to the eye.
Wooden textured background is used only at the top portion of the site. Good balance between the lighter and darker parts, allowing viewers to focus on his main content.
The vertical lines of the wooden texture work beautifully with the horizontal bar that contains the content of the site. The grayish brown background of the content is also slightly textured, displaying great harmony of colors and textures.
Collage is the main theme in this site, however the subtle usage of wooden texture here gave it an over-all laid back and interesting look to it.
Another great site that uses light to highlight the background of the dark wooden texture. White text and green graphics stand out really well here.
The combination of plants and wooden planks gives you the idea that you are out in the garden porch, thus giving a very relaxed feel to this site.
The color of the wood texture here is lighter, so using it as a background is not piercing to the eye. Some graphics were also creatively engraved onto the texture.
This another site that uses collage as its theme. The light colored woody texture here is used as a table.
This site uses close up of thick wooden bars, showing the roughness on the surface. This woody background works out well with the torn edges of the paper over it.
The light tones of the wooden background presented here gives a light hearted and natural feel to this site.
This site shows a great mix of items collaged onto a wooden background. Light is used here to allow the reader to focus on the main content of the site.
The combination of large fonts, colors and other textures displays a great union with the wood texture in the background.
The closeup wooden texture used here shows the roughness of its surface. It brings out the adventure and wild theme of the site.
This is another site that uses a smooth mahogany wooden texture. The logo and links are designed to look like it was engraved on the wooden texture thus making it look 3D.
Yellow and subtle orange tones of the wooden background is used here. Simple and pleasing to the eye.
This site uses a rather dark tone of wooden texture as its background. The use of a spot light allows one to focus on the main content.
The smooth wooden texture used in this site surely gives a warm welcoming feel.
This site uses a reddish tone of wooden texture as its background giving a sincere and warm touch to it. Spot lights are used to bring out to focus of certain areas of the home.
This site uses a light color tone of wood which works very well together with the orange background for its content. Simple and engaging.
A smooth and dim colored wood used here with pencil graphics is simple yet pleasing to one's eye.
Choice of color tones and the type of wood gives a retro feel to the site. Details and use of graphics engages the audience.
This site uses large and close up wood texture as its background. It evokes the nature theme of the site.
Rosy wooden texture is used at the top portion of the site. Graphics used against this texture stood out really well.
This dark colored wooden texture has very strong defined lines. Using collage on such a texture brings out emphasizes on the bold wooden texture.
This site comprises mostly of warm colors. There is great harmony of the chocolate colored wood and orange-red graphics.
Caramel tones of the wooden texture shown in this website combines well with fonts, graphics and colors used.
Wood is an excellent material that shown quality, durability, and environmental perspective. The light tone of such wood gives the warmest welcome upon the first visit in this site.
Resources to download textures
Here are some places where you can download textures to enhance the look and feel of your website.
Urban Dirty is a regularly updated online photo library featuring 673 gritty, grimy and sometimes slimy images for use in design and artwork creation. For example, here's a desktop wallpaper using this photo. View the images in small, medium or large, download or edit online and have fun with them.
CGTextures strives to be the worlds best texture site. Being a 3D artist myself, I know how hard it is to create textures without good photo materials. Making textures should be about creativity, not about spending hours looking for the right image on the Internet. I hope that by supplying good quality textures in an organized manner, your everyday work will be easier and more enjoyable.
Texture Warehouse offers free, high resolution textures to designers and 3D artist. These textures are updated frequently.
Texture King is a project created and maintained by REH3design. Throughout the site you will find a growing repository of high quality texture photos that are free for personal and professional use.
Amazing Texture texture library contains hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps.
Mayang's texture library has over 3800 free to download, high-resolution textures.
Wrapping Up
Have you came across any other woody textured sites or texture library? Leave a link at the comment box and share it with the rest!
I always like the wood texture trend for website backgrounds. One thing I always saw with the wood backgrounds was the use of a low opacity graphics so that you could see through the graphics such as a nav bar and the wood texture would show.
It's so refreshing to see a round-up/inspiration post with descriptive text as well. Some great looking sites too.
A nice addition to this fine list would be http://www.lionways.com
Thanks for featuring our site! We always like to get feedback!
Awesome! This post is going in my delicious bookmarks. By the way, I really like the way you rotated the screenshots of the featured websites. Makes it look more like 'product', sort of speak.
May wanna use the shifted screenshots for our new project, thanks for the inspiration!
one more that I adore http://nightowlpapergoods.com/
The sell cool cards that on on wood.
Hi, that's fantastic list, I like woody websites, thanks. For more wood textures check this http://webdesignfan.com/20-excellent-free-high-quality-wood-texture-sets/
Thanks for the Urban Dirty mention... Big ups!
Thank you for featuring my website here!
Great collection and thanks for featuring my site!