The color scheme of a website is obviously one of the most significant design decisions that needs to be made. When it comes to color schemes, there are all kinds of possibilities. Some use a bright, colorful scheme to create an attractive website. The sites that are featured in this post are using a simple color scheme of mostly black, white and gray.
Monochromatic color schemes can be used with any color, not just black and white, but we’ll be focusing on black and white here. Most of these sites use other colors sparingly, which can be extremely effective for making certain elements stand out. Also, because the element of color has been reduced in these designs, many of them rely heavily on typography and layout structure, as you will see in those being featured.
For more minimalist design inspiration, see:
- 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs
- 25 Beautifully Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 2
- 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 3
- 25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4
If you appreciate websites with a minimalist design style, you’ll love our new gallery site Minimal Exhibit.
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December 2nd, 2008
These are beautiful designs. It’s amazing how following basic graphic design rules can result in such gorgeous work.
December 2nd, 2008
Thank You for featuring StyleSpion.de in this awesome list.
December 2nd, 2008
Very cool collection.
Specially I love few colors in grid-based websites. Colors, grids.. it all becomes very readable. Just like “lushpad” in the collection.
December 2nd, 2008
Thank you for mentioning me!
December 2nd, 2008
Coding Horror has an awful font that makes it unreadable. The others are okay, though.
December 2nd, 2008
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December 2nd, 2008
There is more: Modula has also a very clean, minimal layout.
December 2nd, 2008
Wow!
There’s something in each of the sites that makes it look different. Proves that a “flashy” theme isn’t the only way to get a distinctive look!
Nice collection!
December 2nd, 2008
Lovely collection! Good work!
December 2nd, 2008
Very nice showcase. It’s interesting that the most of designs have black/white as a basis. Only few of them experimented with other colors.
December 2nd, 2008
Thanks a million for including my design among these other very talented designers.
December 2nd, 2008
All designs are Simple and beautiful.I like Sites with not more than two Colors.
December 2nd, 2008
Great collection. I find it much harder to create a high quality “minimalist” design then it is to go all out with color and photos.
December 3rd, 2008
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December 3rd, 2008
Great list and thank you so much for featuring my site among all these talented people up there! Great blog
December 3rd, 2008
Nice post, goes to show that you can still do so much without colour or with minimalistic use of colour and visual embellishment.
December 3rd, 2008
Thanks for including - my site (http://redchilli.com).
Great collection.
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December 3rd, 2008
Gapers Block and Hot Meteor rock!
December 4th, 2008
I like all of the above themes…Your blog is great with beneficial content that is helpful to everyone. Here I came to the point’s that I am not aware of.
December 6th, 2008
Nice and practical websites and easy to use.
December 6th, 2008
Really nice collection. We can had http://www.hugeinc.com/ and http://www.akashrine.fr ^^
December 7th, 2008
I love this list. I’m a big fan of minimalism.
December 7th, 2008
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December 10th, 2008
Great list. I would add The Grid System
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December 14th, 2008
great subject. I’d like to add zElement.com
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December 16th, 2008
Thanks for sharing the list. Some of the sites really look quite cool and it is good to see how some good use of colors be great despite using blacks, whites and grays,,,,
December 17th, 2008
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December 18th, 2008
Thanks for including my site on this list, bro. Means a lot. I’m in some good company!
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