16 Best Typeface Micro-Sites
Are you looking for a unique font that will make your next project shine? Or maybe you need a typeface with a beautiful design and rich history behind it. Luckily, mini-sites for fonts allow us to creatively explore a font’s origins and history. We know (from our own experience) how important it is for UI and UX designers to have a variety of fonts for our designs.
Now that 2022 is here, it’s time to expand our font collection. That’s why, after extensive research, we have created the ultimate list of the best 16 creative mini websites for fonts.
Are you ready to take a look at the most creative, cute, and fun font websites available on the market?
1. GT Eesti
This website is about the history of one of the most popular fonts on the market, GT Eesti. As you will notice, the typeface has a long history (more than 80 years) and was recently reborn in Switzerland.
As for the font, GT Eesti is a flexible geometric sans serif that can be used in almost any project. As one of the most creative websites for fonts, full of animations and interesting information, GT Eesti quickly made it onto our list.
2. Ultra Font
Are you looking for a font that combines calligraphy and elegance and sits between the sans and serif styles?
Then GT Ultra is just what you need. We loved how the creator tells the story and structure of Ultra with beautiful animations on this unique, one-page website.
3. Maru Typeface
Maru is by far the cutest design on this list. The website is a vertical narrative of the typeface’s history.
The typeface was inspired by the designer’s travels to Japan, and the mini-site fully reflects that. Best of all, Maru also includes a great collection of cute emojis and stickers.
4. GT Flexa
GT Flexa is a very flexible font that you can easily use for a responsive UI design. We enjoyed navigating through the minimalist mini-site and exploring the creation and history of Flexa.
Flexa also offers a free trial that allows you to try the font before you buy.
5. Super
Super’s mini-site reminded us of earlier decades. GT Super is a vintage typeface inspired by the serif fonts of the 70s and 80s.
Therefore, it can beautifully frame nostalgic designs. The font was designed by Noel Leu and is available in two styles (text and display).
6. GT Zirkon
GT Zircon is located in a place where creativity meets minimalism. This is one of our favorite mini-sites for fonts.
The site showcases Zirkon’s history and design process through creative graphics, videos, and animations.
7. America Font
This mini-site allows you to explore the history, style, and character overview of GT America, a contemporary font family.
The designer has used elements from American Gothic and European Grotesque to create one of the most flexible typefaces available.
8. Alpina
Reto Moser recently designed one of the most popular GT typefaces, the Alpina “Workhorse” serif.
This innovative, one-page website tells us the story of Alpina and explains how the designer jazzed up, posed, and flexed the classic book typography to create a wide range of typeface variations.
9. Cinetype
As the name suggests, this mini-site is inspired by classic cinematic movie reels. If you’re looking for a font inspired by the fascinating world of cinemas, Cinetype is simply the best choice. And on this creative website, you will learn all the reasons why.
10. Haptik Typeface
When it comes to monolinear geometric typefaces, Haptik is one of the best. This innovative mini-website tells how the Haptik font came to be and highlights the history of the font.
The hand gesture gifs at the bottom of this one-page site are some of the most creative mini-videos we have seen in a long time.
11. Walsheim
Walsheim is a typeface designed by Noel Leu. This mini-site explains how the designer was inspired by the fascinating poster designs of Otto Baumberger, a successful Swiss painter of the 20th century (1889-1961). If you like fonts with a deep backstory, Walsheim is a must-have for you.
12. Prospectus
The Prospectus mini-site is specially designed to look like a newspaper. And let us say: the result is extraordinary.
This one-page website explores the origins, construction phase, and classifieds of the Prospectus typeface, allowing us to experiment in real-time with the weight, height, tracking, and size of the typeface.
13. Mort Modern
Mort Modern is a unique serif typeface designed by Riley Cran in 2018. The mini-site provides information about the typeface in a creative, cartoon-like way.
We really liked this responsive, one-page website because it is elegant and colorful at the same time. The font is available in 56 (!) styles and promises to beautifully frame any kind of modern design.
14. Tofino
The Tofino mini-site is a creative, one-page portal that allows us to discover one of the most adventurous Swiss-style fonts on the market.
Tofino is a top choice for any travel-related project and comes in 75 unique styles. When it comes to creating a well-crafted report on a font, there’s nothing better than this.
15. Faction Typeface
We love websites that offer both a dark and light theme. And the Faction mini-site is one of them.
In this mini-site, you’ll learn how the Faction typeface was created and why it’s one of the most popular display typefaces for modern designs.
16. Moriston
If you’re looking for a unique sans serif font with extended multilingual support, Moriston is the font for you.
In this one-page mini-site, Riley Cran tells the story behind this typeface and explains why Moriston is the best choice for Risograph posters, monograms, and more.
Nancy Young
Nancy is a founder of Onedesblog and a copywriter with over 10 years of experience. She loves creating showcases with beautiful graphics resources, web design, and photography.