30 Inspiring Dark and Sleek Web Designs

30 Inspiring Dark and Sleek Web Designs

May 31 2009 by Jacob Gube | 46 Comments

The skilled use of color gradients, lighting and glow effects, and details such as inset pixel dividers can lead to a gorgeous and sleek web design. When choosing a color palette, designers can often decide among a dark theme, a neutral/light theme, or a bright/colorful theme; this showcase presents dark-themed web layouts.

In this collection, you’ll find some terrific and inspirational examples of dark and sleek web designs.

1. Tapbots

2. Lisa Moseley

3. Futurefabric

4. coda.coza

5. designthis

6. Dino Latoga

7. Anderbose

8. Revision3

9. MAQUINA

10. nclud

11. Icon Designer 3.0 Beta

12. Tea Round App

13. Paul J. Noble

14. Beyondis

15. COLOURlovers

16. Reinvigorate

17. SofaSurfer

18. Revyver Labs

19. Domestika

20. Merix Studio

21. Trevor Saint

22. just.dot

23. Vyniknite.sk

24. Forest River Timber Homes

25. Ordered List

26. Product Planner

27. Spundo

28. Traffik CMS

29. Dragon Interactive

30. atebits

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46 Comments

smallway

prefect~

Kawsar Ali

I am really big fan of Dark websites my fav hex color #303030. Thanks for sharing

JOhn Davis

Wow, way cool designs. Very nice indeed!

Jason

Very nice, thank you !

Daniel

More here:

http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/dark

Matthew Heidenreich

great list! Will definitely check some of these out

Arjen Tienkamp

Very cool designs, thanks for sharing these :-)

Jason

You know I really enjoy smashing, but there is way too much emphasis on design sites. As a designer I enjoy looking at other design sites, but I spend most of my time creating sites for non-design organizations and would benefit more from seeing great examples of those types of sites.

Jason

oops, I meant sixrevision :)

Vu Tran

These are great designs. Thanks for the share.

Ryan

Very nice, I’ve been on a light design kick for a while and this is great inspiration.

Maverick

i liked maquina and colourlovers the most.
nice collection though.

thanks for the list

JRivera

@Kawsar Ali

Indeed, I have been using hex #303030, #1E1E1E, RGB: 30,30,30 for quite sometime now. I found it still remains the perfect black shade, but removes the nasty glare solid black gives.

Great post.

Jimmy

I like http://www.rune2e.com

Television Spy

nice idea for Vyniknite.sk.

Tom

Very inspirational, defiantly going to motifate me to make some designs today.

Djolhan

Nice webdesign !I like particularly the perspective of the 29. Dragon Interactive !

Kamil

Lovely list! Thanks Jacob for including our home page (www.merixstudio.com). cheers ;]

Juan

really great sites…thanks!!

Bim

nice selection!

jrenvoye

great collection :)

Jennifer

Very nice list! I love the contrast between the dark backgrounds and random pops of color.

T-Law

Nice picks. Thanks for great collection.

grazz

Nice collection. The Domestika one is great.

just.dot

Thank you for featuring our site….

Sinisa Komlenic

Brandon

Nice.

Not really a news webpage in this collection. Dark design?

Not really efficient if you want to transfer heaps of information.

Just saying… ;-)

—–
Solomo Gutschein
solomo-gutschein.blogspot.com/

kixvix

Really cool set. Thanks for sharing! :)

Claire Web

Some excellent web designs here, very smart and dark as you pretty much say. I think i prefer the more interesting ones, rather than the plain ones though.

Arowolo

Simply simple. good job

Lisa M

Thanks for the feature! There are truly some inspiring designs on the list, and it’s an honor to be placed among them.

Business

Very nice & inspiring collection. Thank you. I wonder why there are so many crappy sites out there, when there are so many talented designers.

julien

Love the Reinvigorate design. Great list.

John

they are Ok, thank you.

Stanislav Majerski

Thanks for putting our site on the list. (vyniknite.sk)

Rene Zammit

I love DARK COLORS. Check my web :p

J.Martin

nice list…

Ivan

June 12th, 2009

You should mention http://shoeguru.ca :)

Devendra

June 20th, 2009

Great collection. Thanks for sharing. A lot of fashion and photography sites use dark colors. Would have liked to see some of those samples included too.

On Fire for Christ

July 12th, 2009

I love the redrevival.com and redrevival.com/main.htm

avn.rocky

January 25th, 2010

Quite Impressive – Thanks for that

Jenn Steinhauer

Excellent collection. Very inspiring. Thank you!

Andrew North

Great collection defiantly found some inspiration from looking at this list,

Thanks for sharing!

Tuvie

August 10th, 2010

Those are nice list, we do have dark and sleek theme, can we enter the list too? :D

Lyss @ generalforum

October 30th, 2010

I really wish I had the same creative streak these website designers have. I would love to be able to do this myself but I don’t have a creative bone in my body! Thanks for the interesting read.

Khaled

September 3rd, 2011

Thanks very much, i will take inspiration for my customers web site, but a french web site would be very good.

Ryan Jones

November 7th, 2011

Thanks for sharing i am always looking for inspiration for my own website and found this very useful.

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