30 Inspiring Dark and Sleek Web Designs
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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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40 Comments
smallway
May 31st, 2009
prefect~
Kawsar Ali
May 31st, 2009
I am really big fan of Dark websites my fav hex color #303030. Thanks for sharing
JOhn Davis
May 31st, 2009
Wow, way cool designs. Very nice indeed!
Jason
May 31st, 2009
Very nice, thank you !
Daniel
May 31st, 2009
More here:
http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/dark
Matthew Heidenreich
May 31st, 2009
great list! Will definitely check some of these out
Arjen Tienkamp
May 31st, 2009
Very cool designs, thanks for sharing these :-)
Jason
May 31st, 2009
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
May 31st, 2009
oops, I meant sixrevision :)
Vu Tran
May 31st, 2009
These are great designs. Thanks for the share.
Ryan
May 31st, 2009
Very nice, I’ve been on a light design kick for a while and this is great inspiration.
Maverick
May 31st, 2009
i liked maquina and colourlovers the most.
nice collection though.
thanks for the list
JRivera
May 31st, 2009
@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
May 31st, 2009
I like http://www.rune2e.com
Television Spy
May 31st, 2009
nice idea for Vyniknite.sk.
Tom
May 31st, 2009
Very inspirational, defiantly going to motifate me to make some designs today.
Djolhan
May 31st, 2009
Nice webdesign !I like particularly the perspective of the 29. Dragon Interactive !
Kamil
May 31st, 2009
Lovely list! Thanks Jacob for including our home page (www.merixstudio.com). cheers ;]
Juan
May 31st, 2009
really great sites…thanks!!
Bim
May 31st, 2009
nice selection!
jrenvoye
May 31st, 2009
great collection :)
Jennifer
May 31st, 2009
Very nice list! I love the contrast between the dark backgrounds and random pops of color.
T-Law
May 31st, 2009
Nice picks. Thanks for great collection.
grazz
June 1st, 2009
Nice collection. The Domestika one is great.
just.dot
June 1st, 2009
Thank you for featuring our site….
Sinisa Komlenic
Brandon
June 1st, 2009
Nice.
Not really a news webpage in this collection. Dark design?
Not really efficient if you want to transfer heaps of information.
Just saying… ;-)
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Solomo Gutschein
solomo-gutschein.blogspot.com/
kixvix
June 1st, 2009
Really cool set. Thanks for sharing! :)
Claire Web
June 1st, 2009
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
June 1st, 2009
Simply simple. good job
Lisa M
June 1st, 2009
Thanks for the feature! There are truly some inspiring designs on the list, and it’s an honor to be placed among them.
Business
June 1st, 2009
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
June 3rd, 2009
Love the Reinvigorate design. Great list.
John
June 3rd, 2009
they are Ok, thank you.
Stanislav Majerski
June 4th, 2009
Thanks for putting our site on the list. (vyniknite.sk)
Rene Zammit
June 4th, 2009
I love DARK COLORS. Check my web :p
J.Martin
June 9th, 2009
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
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