Over the last few months I’ve noticed a trend for websites to feature an embossed style, with large text and other UI elements given an embossed look to add some depth to the design. I admit to being a fan of this style, and have begun incorporating it into recent designs. With the emergence of CSS 3 techniques such as box-shadow and text-shadow have made it easier to empty this technique without the use of images and below are some of the best examples at the moment.

Jack Osborne:

App Zapper:

Lee Munroe:

Atebits:

Inspireling:

Arbent:

This is just a small collection of examples and there are a lot more out there, and I can see this trend continuing for a while yet.