In recent months designers have been taking bigger risks with web design, including using visual effects that are more unusual. One such visual effect is the use of blur. While this might seem like the opposite of effective web design, blur can be used to create a striking result, but how?<\/p>\n
While blur isn’t viewed as something that is very practical in web design, this has been subverted recently with web design trends that actually make use of this as a well defined and cohesive design choice. So how can blur be used in web design, without reducing the visual quality or impact of your website? Well, there are several options available, including:<\/span><\/p>\n When scrolling through a website sometimes the amount of content and particularly the amount of text can become slightly overwhelming. At the same time, for one page scrolling websites it can be difficult to separate one page from another. Blurring scroll effects can provide an effective solution for both of these issues. This works by Blurring the content that you are not currently looking at, and devouring the content as you scroll down the page. This allows just one area of the screen to be looked at, at a time, with content above and below being blurred to reduce visual strain. This works most effectively for text heavy websites or those that are one page scrolling websites. Websites with a minimal amount of text, and an effective balance between imagery and text, may need to use blurring effects in a different way.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of using the blur and deblur scrolling effect, some company websites can be better suited to overall background blur instead. This involves using either a background image that is blurred to some degree, ranging from very blurred to only a slight blur, to using a blur colour wash. Either option can be very effective, depending on company branding and web design style. When using this style of background it’s essential that the text and images have enough contrast to stand out from the blurred background to provide clear, easy to read text, and to ensure image clarity.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Blurring and deblurring as a scroll effect in web design\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
Background blur effects for website content<\/span><\/h3>\n
Using blur as an image effect<\/span><\/h3>\n