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25 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 2

A few months ago I posted a collection of beautifully colorful websites, and I wanted to follow up with 25 more sites that provide excellent inspiration when working with colors. The 25 sites displayed here use a wide variety of design styles, but all make effective use of color to create a fabulous look that leaves an impact on visitors.

For more inspirational design galleries, see:

Global Oneness Project

Global Oneness Project

Yeahstyle

Yeahstyle

Fusion Books

Fusion Books

Kingsfield Church

Kingsfield Church

Mostly Lisa

Mostly Lisa

ActionHead Studios

Actionhead Studios

Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corporation

Knoxville

Habitat for Humanity Youth Programs

Habitat for Humanity

Cult-Foo

Cult-Foo

Family Vacation Survival Guide

Family Vacation Survival Guide

Cottonseed Oil Tour

Cottonseed Oil Tour

Darkmotion

Darkmotion

Sharpcast

Sharpcast

Casio Exilim Lab

Casio Exilim Lab

Svilen Dimchevski

Svilen Dimchevski

Radu Cueca

Radu Dueca

Springtime in Tennessee

Springtime in TN

Pixele

Pixele

FreeAgent

FreeAgent Central

45royale

45royale

Peminoz

Peminoz

Navigant Consulting

Navigant Consulting

Outsource Czech

Outsource Czech

The Wombats

The Wombats

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Originally Published May 12th, 2008

51 Responses

  1. News » 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 2
    May 12th, 2008

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  2. mothership
    May 13th, 2008

    I quite like a few of them, which is strange for me. Colourful is very easy to go overboard with or get totally ‘wrong’ and the majority of colourful sites do this. It’s great to see a collection of sites that get it right!

  3. Pasquale
    May 13th, 2008

    Cheers for the feature!!

  4. Fubiz
    May 13th, 2008

    Congrats.

  5. Shanna
    May 13th, 2008

    another great list!! Thanks for putting these lists together.

  6. Lisa
    May 13th, 2008

    Definitely websites that my eyes are drawn too. Keep up the great work!

  7. Mepho
    May 13th, 2008

    Nice group of websites! Keep up the work~!

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  9. Pierce
    May 13th, 2008

    Thanks :)

  10. Kelly
    May 13th, 2008

    A very nice group. I especially like Cottonseed Oil, Sharpcast, and Radu Cueca. As Mothership said, colorful can easily be too much. These are bright and cheerful, but still restrained enough to be appealing to a wide audience. Well-chosen!

    Regards,

    Kelly

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  12. Alen
    May 14th, 2008

    Amazing collection, Steven!

  13. Bagrep
    May 14th, 2008

    I want one of those..sigh..in my dream..haha. can never achieve that kind of look. so wonderful..

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  15. Louie
    May 14th, 2008

    Moshimonsters will nicely fit this category. :)

  16. adelle
    May 14th, 2008

    Nice selection you have here!

  17. exfatguy
    May 14th, 2008

    That is some great web design templates. Wish I could hire someone to do exactly like those sites. Anyone?

  18. Warren
    May 15th, 2008

    thanks for posting these. Always nice to find some new inspirational design.

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  20. JD
    May 15th, 2008

    Beautiful Websites.
    So many web designers are using great fresh color in their graphics designs.

  21. Nastya Manno
    May 16th, 2008

    This excellent compilation of inspiring sites. Thank you very much!

  22. VeraBradley
    May 16th, 2008

    Honestly, i dislike a website that uses too many different colours. I’m not sure how many percentage of visitors are like be, but a uniform and clean webpage that uses less than 5 colours stands out better in terms of legibility and professionalism.

  23. zohai
    May 16th, 2008

    Some of it really is great but some are too colourful and to my dislike. Eg: Casio Exilim Lab

    But using multiple colours surely won’t make a person bored and gains the audience’s attention. And it caters to the younger generation IMO

  24. traveler
    May 16th, 2008

    fusion looks great! nice simple stylish!

  25. Eshop
    May 16th, 2008

    I would pink Mostly Lisa’s page the best because i has a blue eyed girl picture in front that is most probably Lisa. hahaha

  26. The Bloggers Times
    May 17th, 2008

    Great man. Keep posting more and more for new bloggers like me.

    Thank you.

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    May 17th, 2008

    I love those colorful sites! How I wish it was just easy to implement them in mine…

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  30. seo
    May 18th, 2008

    Oh my..It is so beautiful. How I wish I can design something like them..

  31. HostV
    May 19th, 2008

    Always nice to find some new inspirational design.

  32. HostV
    May 19th, 2008

    Wish I could hire someone to do exactly like those sites. Anyone?

  33. fatsgone
    May 19th, 2008

    Wow so colorful! Kind of psychedelic and makes my head spin. Agreed, too much color is not a good thing. But when done with restraint, it an be a very potent source of attraction to potential viewers.

  34. Ant Sir Pest
    May 20th, 2008

    Awesome post! I like seeing sites that use alot of color, but don’t look corny or overdone. Very nice list. Thanks.

  35. Alex
    May 21st, 2008

    Great article, thanks a lot for taking the time to write it!
    Good compilations like this one make browsing the web more interesting :)

  36. loans
    May 23rd, 2008

    so beautiful the website, can learn the style they use to design my own, nice post…

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  38. anggi
    June 2nd, 2008

    nice list.. very inspiring :D for our new redesign

  39. adelle
    June 6th, 2008

    these are very tasty choices!

  40. Jad
    June 8th, 2008

    thanks for this list of amazing designs:D i guess they’re very inspiring and helpful for every designer

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  42. Aaniat Khalid
    July 1st, 2008

    I want to make my own website with colorful and stylish backgrounds. That site would be all about me and my relatives and my family.

  43. Marisa
    July 7th, 2008

    Great list. Thanks!

  44. Karan Goyal
    July 27th, 2008

    Really a great collection. I wonder how you find them :). Really motivating designs. Seems like I want to redesign all my sites since they look crap :) compared to all these.

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    August 9th, 2008

    WOW…those are really top of the line designs. I really love them. Designing web page like those are really exceptional.Thanks a lot for sharing.

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