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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Aen Tan
Posted 1021 days ago 25Hello, thanks for the feature. Yes there is a lot going on on my page, content-wise but with some white-space, grid, typography rhythm and keeping things concise, minimalism can be maintained and clutter avoided.
Karlstopoulos
Posted 1030 days ago 24Very inspirational, can’t really decide on which one I like best :-)
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Adam
Posted 1031 days ago 23Great post, thanks for the inspirations :-)
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Felipe Martyn
Posted 1034 days ago 22I am a huge fun of minimalism.
Thanks for the post, they are beautiful, but quite a few of them aren’t really minimal, there are quite a few that would fit into a sleek & simple category.
I think that minimalism at the right percent is extremely hard to achieve…
Thanks for the inspiration and great job
Amy King
Posted 1034 days ago 21I’m not usually a fan of minimalism, but these are beautiful! Some great ideas here. Keep up the good work.
Hardy
Posted 1034 days ago 20Very inspirational! I totally like these clean designs.
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Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach
Posted 1034 days ago 19#34 gets my vote! Love the “see why you should hire me here!” part; it’s something I always teach my recruiter/business clients.
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Matt
Posted 1034 days ago 18Love Poccuo´s design with the prominent last tweet.
To be honoust, I do think that the credit´s for Kristi Hines´ design should go to Vicor García. She´s just using his WPESP theme without the coda slider:
http://demo.wpesp.com/portfolio/
David
Posted 1034 days ago 17Vary cool stuff here! It just goes to show you that a blog really dose depend on the content.
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Jay Zuck
Posted 1034 days ago 16Some really splendid minimalist and clean designs. It gives us all something to aspire towards.
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Stuart Hobday
Posted 1034 days ago 15Hello – thank you for including my site (no.69 – 39/18) – just popped in there.
Thanks
Stuart
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Kevin S
Posted 1034 days ago 14Good motivation for working on my site. Bodipy.com has been in the works for a few weeks and I hope to finish it up soon. Thanks for the great list of minimalistic sites… I like em.
Johnson Koh
Posted 1035 days ago 13Great selections buddy. Cheers!
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Dicky
Posted 1035 days ago 12These are awesome collection! I enjoy viewing websites built with only 2 or 3 colors!
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Michel
Posted 1035 days ago 11I loved this post and the selection of designs. I would humbly like to suggest my own portfolio http://www.multimichel.com to this list. I was very inspired by the simple yet beautiful work displayed in designing all these minimalist sites. (simple and beautiful is not easy to achieve)
BunnygotBlog
Posted 1035 days ago 10I hear this all the time, Keep it Simple. I really like all the information you have here and will check it all out.
Great job.
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LindenTibbets
Posted 1035 days ago 9Pumped to make the list! I really enjoy the process of stripping an idea down to the bare essentials without losing touch of the human connection with and/or between users.
Nickson
Posted 1035 days ago 8Actually you are right, simple designs with couple of bright colors look decent and encourages people to read the big articles, but if its dark or multi colored, people wouldnt really prefer to read big articles in it.
xun
Posted 1035 days ago 7the collections are awesome!
maybe someday i’ll be in the list too!
hehe.
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Jeffdoe
Posted 1035 days ago 6Thank you for including my sites. Jeffdoedesign.com and bkwld.com. Love all the love for minimalist sites!
Props to Wonderfulunion.com as well!
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Josh Cagwin
Posted 1035 days ago 5Nice list here…
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Kristi Hines
Posted 1035 days ago 4Thanks so much for including me in this list! These sites are all definitely beautiful. I have always believed a more simple layout gets your point across quickly. It may not be too flashy, but no one will have issues getting to the core of the content that way.
gautam hans
Posted 1035 days ago 3Beauty lies in simplicity and i think minimalist is beautiful :)
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Luis Lopez
Posted 1035 days ago 2I really like BKWLD, David Airey and Subtraction sites, clean design and awesome colors, even if I am not really minimalistic on web design as i used to be on the past i appreciate this kind of sites.
Really excellent collection
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Bariski
Posted 1035 days ago 1Awesome effort. Keep up.
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