70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs
Dainis Graveris
Hello there! It’s time for little inspiration and this time I wanted to showcase something different. You may know that very popular designer slogan – “More is Less”, and yes it’s often so true – unexperienced people tend to overcrowd, use too much colors in their designs. I just love these designs – they are very light, clean and usually uses only monochrome color scheme and just one or two bright colors for links or headers.
You may also notice for such designs it’s more about grid, harmonic distribution through whole page and very silent, elegant accents. It’s not about many colorful photos,images or icons, crazy backgrounds or experimentation. Almost all of those designs are very clean, slightly increasing web page loading time, sometimes it’s crucial to have as light designs as possible, for example reddit, digg, stumbleupon social networks also consist of very few images and where is possible just color and CSS is used.
1. Brilliancy
One of the best clean, light and elegant websites I came across in this research. Really brilliant!
2. OffSet Media
3. PixelBot
4. Pixel Umbrella
5. Kristi Hines
Very clean, yet professional web design.
6 .Made By On
7. Hot Meteor
Hot Meteor specializes in web, print, and branding. Their site looks really professional and clean, good design is one of the best ways how to attract new clients.
8. Mark Boulton Design
Excellent accents leading your eye through whole page in the way author wants it. Follow me to this through – magazine photo + new(s) design is the first point which grabs attention, author explains there what is this site and company about – that first attention grabber is very important. Only then you look at his logo and read further – work, our clients, news, contact sections.
9. BKWLD
10. Concentric-Studio
11. Vitor Lourenco
Visit his homepage – starting from index page you’ll get amazed how effectively Vitor Lourenco uses white space.
12. Forget Foo
13. GetFinch
14. ShaunInMan
15. Arty Papers
Beautiful website using just few very subtle, monochrome colors and only pink color in logo is used to highlight most important links.
16. Vesess
17. SimpleBits
18. DesignWorkPlan
19. MadeBySofa
20. 80/20 Studio
21. Clear Left
22. Aentan
On this site so much is going on – I mean so many sections and categories, but still it looks pretty clean.
23. Huge Inc
24. Rustin Jessen
25. Daniel Oliver
26. Subtraction
27. Information Architects
28. The Man In The Sea
29. Built By Buffalo
30. Corporate Risk Watch
Site looks really professional and clean aligned in left side of the screen, also try their navigation – really unique approach!
31. Pixel Haven
32. Design Hotels
33. Jon Tangerine
34. Winnie Lim
35. Wonderful Union
36. Apple
Obvious, but I could not resist myself and not to include Apple minimalist ethalon page, though everyone knows about it already I am sure.
37. Darren Hoyt
38. Ronnie San
39. Shift PX
40. 5ThirtyOne
41. Andy Rutledge
42. Anthony James Bruno
43. Astheria
44. Big Kid
45. Cade Martin Photography
46. David Airey
47. Eight Face
48. Feed A Fever
49. Fell Swoop
50. Hello Stefan
51. Jamie Gregory
52. LindenTibbets
53. Matt Bango
54. Martin Hipp
55. Site Inspire
56. Welcome To Human Resources
57. z8
Click on Portfolio and Contact buttons, you’ll see nice Javascript animation going on there.
58. Kyle Steed
59. Joni Korpi
60. The Portfolio of David Arias
61. El Candor
62. I Love Typography
63. The NetSetter
64. Jeff Doe Design
65. Kyle Standing
66. GB Studio
67. Poccuo
68. Zurb
69. 39/18 Company
70. F5 Fest
I will soon continue with Part 2, because there are a lot more beautiful light designs so stay with us!
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Melbourne
Posted 125 days ago 45Very nice designs, i need a new one bad…
Kollontai
Posted 174 days ago 44Clean, very inspiring for me as a webdesigner. I would like to share with you Kollontai which is a website I like very much due to its simplicity and minimalist monochrome color scheme that drives customers attention directly to the products rather than on the visual elements of the website which sometime get annoying and distractful.
Andrew
Posted 175 days ago 43It seems things are definitely going back to “keep it simple” which I’m actually quite happy about as I think the web needs to tone down on all the flashing colours a bit!
Keith Davis
Posted 184 days ago 42This is the best collection of cool, clean websites that I’ve seen.
70 sites to choose from!
Don’t know where to start but you have given me so many great ideas.
Many thanks for the best collection on the web.
steph
Posted 189 days ago 41found some new design inspirations for my next project! thank you!
Web Design Wakefield
Posted 193 days ago 40Very nice clean web designs specially Daniel Oliver and Ronnie San.
Web Design Huddersfield
Posted 210 days ago 39nice collection, I like the Arty Papers one. I personally like clean web designs, but it is very hard to impress people with simple and clean look. You can see my own website at alvipixels.com, which could be added to this list.
mauritius web design
Posted 272 days ago 38Very inspirational bookmarked and share
garage shoes
Posted 282 days ago 37Thanks for sharing this so good post.
Xandy
Posted 324 days ago 36A million thanks for piosntg this information.
Internet marketing
Posted 349 days ago 35Gorgeous minimalist web design…
Website Design Buffalo
Posted 367 days ago 34Really good Web designs. One extra point. Always make you article, page, or post super interesting to read. Make people want to come back for more.
Buffalo Web design
Posted 379 days ago 33The catchy blog with the interesting contents. You give the nice information that many people don’t know before. most of your contents are make me have more knowledge. it is very different. I was impressed with your blog. Never be bored to visit your website again. Have the nice day. Keep enjoyed your blogging.
Yuriy Z.
Posted 606 days ago 32Minimalism can be powerful, yet It’s very easy on the eyes. I went for a more minimalist approach on my design portfolio myself- let me know what you think http://www.yuriyz.com.
Aker
Posted 661 days ago 31Great list, you should add some new since 2009, thanks for that cool list :)
Minimalissimo
Posted 937 days ago 30Guys, also check out Minimalissimo at htp://minimalissimo.com. We blog about minimalist design and try to practice what we preach!
David Arias
Posted 979 days ago 29Wow, I appreciate the inclusion of my website. Thank you.
Deborah
Posted 989 days ago 28These are wonderful themes!!
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Melanie
Posted 997 days ago 27Although this is a great collection, I can’t help but be slightly worn out by the “return to simplicity” design using black on white color schemes. There are a few exceptions to this, of course, but I would really like to see something more original than simply taking the easy route to simplicity.
Oliver Ruehl
Posted 1015 days ago 26Drooling now.
I’m just fascinated by typography.
The rules for “correct” typography are sometimes a bit overwhelming, but it is still a joy to see these sites.
My obsession started when I needed to design posters when i was 17… i made an education as interior decorator.
I need advice from some professionals though.
Please have a look at my site and let me know what you think.
Am I doing a lot of things wrong? ;)
Keep up the good work!
Oliver