A slightly embossed alphabetical menu lets you browse this website displaying tons of free fonts to download.

Pagination and main navigation links are both displayed on a beveled toolbar, duplicated at the bottom page: I think it’s really clever how Eico’s design have unified in one place back/next button, category, year, name of the project and link back to the portfolio’s home page.

A nice example of minimalist cascading menu from Kemado Records, an indipendent American record label based in New York City.

I really can’t remember why (serendipity, I’d suppose) but recently I’ve stumbled into the Gates’ notes, the website that spreads probably worldwide most famous mogul’s thoughts about the matters such as philanthropy, climats, development…
Apart from the fact that the whole thing is written in the third person, which really gives me the creeps, I’ve  found interesting [...]

Here you are a nice design snip I’ve found on Guinness website: a sleek black tab menu with many filter options clearly organized into two rows.

Though we’re not big fans of overtly tech webdesign and we prefer warmer, more organic solutions, we loved the cleanliness and the powerful, warm glow that this website’s menu radiates.
Another nice design snippet we found on Thoughbot’s website is the brownish, rounded contact us button which really stands out, partly for its effective color contrast and partly [...]

Stupid Studio is a creative motion design and online agency based in Denmark which is specialised in motion graphics and, contrary to its name, delivers very brilliant stuff.
This website is quite a living example of how a simple three colums grid, evenly repeated in each sections, can effectivly improve your website’s consistency, abating the navigation [...]

Yellow is a powerful, cheerful colour but rarely used in webdesign because, I suppose, of its inner lack of contrast. You can find it quite likely associated with black or, as in this case with cyan, and it’s often used in design-related websites.
This time, we want to show you this nice, huge yellow tabbed navigation, [...]

Quite a classic but nonetheless we loved this fresh, neat drop down menu, designed in a lovely palette with a clear, simple approach.
This web design sample comes from emPivot’s website:
emPivot.com is the first online network to bring together the wide range of user generated and premium video content related to the environment. As a result, [...]

Here you are a classy, finely shaped tab menu from Weightshift, a small studio based in San Francisco.
Though we loved this web site on the whole (the typography is great and, generally, you can catch a meticulous attention behind every detail), we liked the most the quite vertically compressed menu (since the so-called web 2.0, [...]

When you click on the huge button on the top of Why Every One Loves Tumblr page, you’ll see a big check list menu appearing with four differente choices.
This is a peculiar way to navigate between section that I’ve seen only here but I think that may possibly turn out useful in many other situations.

A nice idea for Clearleft, a web agency specialized in user centered design: a web site menu made of numbered cards that makes a not so subtle suggestions to methods applied in Information Architecture.

Our attention was grabbed by a clever fonts comparison system in MyFonts‘ website: using a little sliding widget in the left sidebar, you can browse through thousands items, comparing the A glyph of available typefaces. You can get a more detailed preview of your type by simply hovering over the letter with your mouse.

Could you tell the difference between the breadcrumbs and the navigation? When both are displayed it’s quite obvious, but in other pages (look at here) it’s not.
Though it might turn out to be a nice graphic expedient, I think it could be risky to disguise one user interface pattern (navigation menu) as another. (breadcrumbs menu). [...]

Using different colours may lead to clashing, disorienting graphic outcomes. But I think this is not the case and we quite appreciated A S Hospitality expanding menu.