A few months ago I published a gallery of 25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs. I received more feedback on that post than almost any other, so I decided to follow up with another 25 minimalistic websites.
If you appreciate websites with a minimalist design style, you’ll love our new gallery site Minimal Exhibit.
Recently redesigned, this community site for web designers uses a simple, effect design.
This graphic designer features an uncluttered layout and a nice color combination.
A visual communications and brand identity studio.
A nice minimalistic design on a black background.
The home of articles with 100 or less words also prefers simplicity in its design.
A minimalistic design on a blue background.
Online portfolio of a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
A Portuguese web design firm that uses very little color in its minimalistic design.
Another dark minimalistic design.
A high-end interactive agency, FL2 uses a simple website to promote its work.
Story writer Edward Pistachio’s website has a minimalistic magazine-style design.
Web and graphic designer with a dark minimalistic site.
A minimalistic design that uses only a few different colors.
A simply-stated website of a student designer.
Another site with a dark background.
UK web designer with a nice, simplistic website.
Another web design firm.
Seattle-based interactive producer.
A very basic layout with an interesting background effect at the top of the page.
A more colorful minimalistic approach.
A dark background for this designer.
This site uses a few different random backgrounds including the one shown below.
Nashville-based web design and search marketing company.
Minimalistic design that uses black, white, and gray.
Portfolio site for freelance web designer/developer.
January 14th, 2008
Very nice ones! in fact!
this proves my motto: Simple is harder!
January 14th, 2008
Awesome list Steven—it’s great inspiration for anyone who’s involved with web design.
Thanks,
- Mason
January 14th, 2008
This is a great list, Steven! It really inspires me and I loved looking at all of these great designs. Stumbled and Dugg. Keep up the great work.
January 14th, 2008
Karim,
Simple is hard. It seems illogical, but an effective minimal design isn’t easy.
Mason and Tay,
Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad you like the gallery.
January 14th, 2008
Yes simplicity is best but people get caught on that and exclude colour…
No colour does not mean no colour. If you look at the best simple designs above, they have colour.
January 14th, 2008
opps the above should read
“no colour does not mean simple designs”
January 14th, 2008
There’s some nice ones on this list Steven. Very cool.
January 14th, 2008
Hmm…. Nice. I think u should used more colour.your design is cool.Thanks.
January 14th, 2008
Great list, thank you for including CSS Globe
January 15th, 2008
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January 15th, 2008
CRCBUS is a total (poor man’s) rip off of Kokokaka’s site. And Kokokaka came out WAAAAAAAAY before CRCBUS did. Please don’t reward pirates.
http://kokokaka.com/
January 15th, 2008
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January 15th, 2008
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January 15th, 2008
Great looking examples, Steven. Gives me some inspiration for when I redesign one of my sites.
Congrats on the del.icio.us front page as well.
January 15th, 2008
Very nice, thanks!
January 15th, 2008
Great research as always, Steve. Keep up the great work!
January 15th, 2008
Great compilation Steve, I’ve always been a sucker for minimalist designs :>
January 15th, 2008
So, this is kinda like mental masturbation. Yes, these are all pretty and interesting designs, but they’re all FOR DESIGNERS. What, pray tell, would you expect from a designer?
Show me a fortune 500 company that goes out on a limb and chooses an expressive, deep, minimalistic design.
January 15th, 2008
Great list, Steven. I Dugg you.
January 15th, 2008
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January 15th, 2008
I went to an art/design program last summer and loved their website, http://tuscanclassicalacademy.org/. Certainly agree with scott.
January 15th, 2008
blah blah blah. typography, big deal.
January 15th, 2008
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January 15th, 2008
I like most of them, but not all. Simple is fine, but sometimes they just had way too much font graphics for me. Check out my site.
January 15th, 2008
Alen,
Thanks for stopping by. You’re welcome for the inclusion of CSS Globe.
Jermayn and alien,
I agree, color is important. I think there are a few rare designs that look great without color, but they’re in the minority.
Andrei,
Thanks for providing that link. I hadn’t seen that before, definitely a very similar design.
Jason,
Thanks!
Scott,
They’re not all for designers, although very many are. I agree with you that large companies are not going to go with this type of design, but that doesn’t mean that no one else should.
Matthew,
Thanks for the Digg.
January 15th, 2008
Care to comment on this one?
http://www.351.com
I love feedback
January 15th, 2008
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January 16th, 2008
Nice list! I have LOVED FreshCreative since I first laid my eyes upon it.
January 16th, 2008
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I was about to begin constructing my website when your first post on minimalistic designs came out. It was such great inspiration, that I completely scrapped my original plan and started over again! I do believe the result will be a much better product.
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January 16th, 2008
I was inpired by this when making my site.Nice thing.
January 16th, 2008
This is a very cool thing.Carry on.
January 17th, 2008
I love the ‘fresh creative’ text on the Finch site. Anyone know the name of a similar font? Less is more as they say, great work.
January 19th, 2008
Wicked list. Good to see these clean designs…
January 19th, 2008
Nice screens guys. Inspiring bunch of designs…
January 21st, 2008
CRCBUS is not came out after Kokokaka. Please don’t accuse a website if u don’t know a pubblication date.
January 21st, 2008
here is my minimalist site http://www.visiondino.ilive.ro , not my design
January 23rd, 2008
Fab designs. I particularly like the Darren Alawi, SayHej! and Superawesome ones. In fact they are all great!
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January 24th, 2008
Thanks for featuring my web site here.
January 24th, 2008
Mark,
You’re welcome, it’s a nice looking site.
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January 26th, 2008
here’s another one:
http://www.ripstyles.com
January 27th, 2008
This is a great list. I would love to see some comments on mine.
http://patrickrhone.com
January 27th, 2008
Hi Patrick,
Your site looks nice, certainly a minimalist approach.
January 28th, 2008
cool one
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January 28th, 2008
Thanks for the notice. Proud to be included on your list.
-Jeremy Brosowsky
founder & CEO, Brijit
http://www.brijit.com/
January 28th, 2008
Here’s another one:
http://www.workingimagination.com
January 28th, 2008
Jeremy,
You’re welcome. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Mike,
Thanks for the link, it looks good.
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Intresting content, not very good use of colors though…
May 20th, 2008
agreed, aside from monoroot those colors are not very flashy. I do like the simplicity of most of the sites. Less is more on most occasions.
May 27th, 2008
Thanks for the collection of those beautiful minimalistic designs! They inspired me a lot when we re-designed our website… they gave me guts to embrace the beauty of simplicity!
June 4th, 2008
Wonderfull post
June 11th, 2008
And Jon Tan Super
June 20th, 2008
Thanks very much for posting this list. We’re looking for inspiration and this offered some! We’ll be using some of this in the future.
R. Hughes
Production Music Library
June 20th, 2008
Thanks for the list. It was very helpful inspiration for my portfolio!
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July 27th, 2008
thank you!
August 18th, 2008
Very cool designs, particularly like the gedanken site.
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Suggested websites: http://www.xtencil.com or http://www.twopoints.net. Thanks!
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Lots cool stuff. Love minimal design. Although lot people misunderstand the mean of minimal.
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