60 Beautiful Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration
To be unique and original, you need to have a good source of inspiration. You can get inspiration from music, family and friends, even other people’s work, to get a great design idea.
To help, we bring you this collection of light and clean websites, separated into different categories.
Also see these related collections:
Portfolio Websites
Through use of great typography and correct alignment, a simple and light portfolio website can become a truly awesome one. Here are some rocking light-colored portfolios.
31Three
kzxtreme
mick evans
Design Development & the Pursuit of Happiness
Francesco Fonte
James Charlick
Patrick Algrim
Jason Reed
Sinopse
Kenny Meyers
Rose Fu
My favorite thing
Jennifer James Wright
Vlad Georgescu
pete usborne
nicu.ws
t.grimes
Agency/Studio Websites
Every design agency or studio must show what they’re capable of. If their website isn’t elegant and eye-catching, clients probably won’t contact them. Here’s list of light-themed and clean design studio/agency websites.
Creanto
iKreativ
Wishpipe Studios
Sugar Rush Creative
Makalu Aerospace
Pixelcraft
ResetStudio
Super User Studios
madewithlove
777
Drupal Works
Webstaze
Bopia
Kyan
Squared Eye
YoDiv
Product Websites
To bring people to your product’s website it needs to be eye-catching, but at the same time clean and simple. Here’s a list of some cool light product websites.
FlexiThemes
The Theme Foundry
ReserveUp
ktgardens.cz
wtfJeans
Themefunktion
Sequel Pro
Glad Tidings Church
Jax Vineyards
Mint.com
iPhone Application Websites
As the number of iPhone applications started to grow, so did the need for websites for those applications. Most of them consist of a screenshot, some information and a link to iTunes Store. Here’s a list of some really simple but excellent iPhone application websites.
Zumobi
Nota iPhone App
atebits
Thermometer App
Streaks
Borange
Sketches
Yoritsuki
Helvetiq
Dropbox
Melatonin
Confessapp
JUNECLOUD
TimeTracker
FriendCodes
Iconlicious
Jumsoft
Which one is your favorite, and why?
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About the Author
Mladen Berakovic is freelance web developer and full-time geek from Croatia. You can follow him on Twitter or visit his website called aerendyl.com.
64 Comments
Alex
April 8th, 2010
I personally like http://41six.com Nice clean look.
New Betas
April 8th, 2010
I really like all the iPhone websites. Pretty good list overall though
Albert Lie
April 8th, 2010
My blog also have beautiful & clean web design. Could you also include blog on this list?
Maidstone
April 8th, 2010
Some really awesome work!
Jordan Walker
April 8th, 2010
very nice!
Bryan
April 8th, 2010
Awsome list! and of a great inspiration.
DPZ
April 8th, 2010
Great list, JuneCloud is my fav.
Aaron Irizarry
April 8th, 2010
Thanks for the include! Some great sites listed here.
Clayton Correia
April 8th, 2010
Great list. Thanks!
Syed Balkhi
April 8th, 2010
Mint’s site is one of the best designs ever. A lot of other great designs in this list.
Leandro
April 8th, 2010
Great new stuff the mobile webs are all great, i only see good new designs.
thanks
also i have my personal clean portfolio ;)
http://www.revestido.com.ar
Matthew Heidenreich
April 8th, 2010
great complication, very inspiring indeed!
Matthias Matz
April 8th, 2010
good sites good article
Design Earth
April 8th, 2010
Good Collection. Lot of inspiration to take from these cool websites. Thanks for sharing.
Vlad Georgescu
April 8th, 2010
Wonderful website designs in this list. Honored to be included.
Craig
April 8th, 2010
Nice list. I think Auxiliary’s site definitely could have been on it. http://www.yourauxiliary.com
Sahan
April 8th, 2010
These iPhone site has same design aspects, BIGIPHONE :(
Sahan
April 8th, 2010
@Leandro
Yea your portfolio is looking good.
qq
April 8th, 2010
Those are nice designs indeed.
Polly
April 9th, 2010
Very nice collection, I like Melatonin and Mint.com.
Benjamin @ EV
April 9th, 2010
awesome work!
hotmac
April 9th, 2010
Can anyone stop this 10/20/30/40/50/60-best-of-great-inspirational-shitty thing? I’ve seen most of the stuff on other sites and some of the examples are ugly, ugly, ugly. Please think about different methods to generate clicks. Thanks.
Gringo
April 9th, 2010
I also like http://www.every.fm
Ajay
April 9th, 2010
Nice Design!
Sayrus
April 9th, 2010
Why choosing all websites displaying Iphone, Ipads & Apple stuffs? I really love Apple and but it’s not creativity but mainly copy of each other.
Web Risorsa
April 9th, 2010
Light color are always most attracted by the professionals.. This is where we lay on light color in our designs…
adsl viettel
April 9th, 2010
Great list! Thanks for sharing.
Georgios
April 9th, 2010
Very nice list, thanks! I like http://sinopse.org/
Fikri Rakala
April 9th, 2010
Very good websites
Sean
April 9th, 2010
These are very inspiring! I have just launched my own simple design at http://www.seanhurley.ca Would love feedback
Pixel Air
April 9th, 2010
Some great sites. Good start with 31Three – always been a favourite. Time for my own redesign i think!
Ciara
April 9th, 2010
These are wonderful… and very clean
Lee Fuller
April 9th, 2010
Your missing 2 sites of this article…
the first being Six Revisions, although a fairly standard blog format, virtually every blogger uses this layout, there fore making it an inspirational design…
and
the second being The Tutorial and Review, this site has something that the majority of these sites don’t have, a dark background, something a little different, that catches peoples attention! Check it out here: http://www.thetutorialandreview.com
Lee Fuller
April 9th, 2010
Your missing 2 sites of this article…
the first being Six Revisions, although a fairly standard blog format, virtually every blogger uses this layout, there fore making it an inspirational design…
and
the second being The Tutorial and Review, this site has something that the majority of these sites don’t have, a dark background, something a little different, that catches peoples attention!
Scott
April 9th, 2010
Awesome!!! I can’t believe not only my new version of iKreativ has been featured but also Themefunktion too, especially along with great designers like Jesse Chamberlain of 31Three.
Design Earth
April 9th, 2010
Truly these are really inspiring. Good collection mite!
Pk
April 9th, 2010
simply fantastic.
Smashing Share
April 10th, 2010
Great roundup of clean design.
Azizuan
April 10th, 2010
Great compilation. Thanks for inspiring. Keep it going.
JC
April 10th, 2010
simply awesome. I really liked it.
Regards
Julie
April 10th, 2010
I like mint.com the most. Maybe because I am drinking a mojito :)
rory
April 12th, 2010
Nice list of simple sites. The majority of them remind me of blog sites, with a really plain wordpress theme. Melatonin is a very nicely thought out site and the animation is pretty cool. Thanks for the resources.
WebMalta
April 12th, 2010
I agree that websites must be light and clean… It will be more user friendly :) Greta article
Samantha, Grafdom
April 14th, 2010
Hey Mint.com is truly a great concept.
Like some of the others too, a big fan of light-themed web design, rather than dark ones.
GSPG
April 15th, 2010
Cool and simple. Great list. Thanks for sharing.
cleawalford
April 22nd, 2010
I am all for nice and clean websites and think your list is great!
shopspot
April 27th, 2010
I think Nicu is by far one of the best romanian designers.
franz
April 28th, 2010
Thanks for quote :)
Danang Sukma
May 1st, 2010
mick evans… Inspiring Me!! :) So Clean and Simplify designer, Like It!
Blueprint Groupe
May 3rd, 2010
These site designs look amazing! Clean, minimalistic, and great use of color.
janice
May 18th, 2010
Great list, love light clean designs.
Heres another clean photography site (albeit a little gratuitous!):
http://www.rowlingphotography.com
Scott Corgan
May 18th, 2010
Clean is always my favorite. Don’t know how we ever said grunge is a design technique. Let’s K.I.S.S….
Husien Adel
May 24th, 2010
nice collections ;) thanks for sharing
Cody Swann
June 3rd, 2010
Good stuff. I love the Streaks app
eliza young
June 24th, 2010
i love all of them.i hope i can make a beautiful and simple tea website like this.
Urviho
August 13th, 2010
Nice one. Thank’s for inspiration.
Anne
November 26th, 2010
Nice collection, thanks for sharing! :)
mindxstudio
November 30th, 2010
Thanks for such great collection of clean and nice looking website.
Carl Wood
January 7th, 2011
Great list, thanks for this!
Geo
January 21st, 2011
Thank you for the wonderful list!
I like Rose Fu(Cox).
Sammy Frith
March 6th, 2011
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
http://www.ski-boutique.co.uk is a beautiful, simple, image driven site.
Mike Lawson of trCreative
June 16th, 2011
It’s amazing how simple can work so well – great showcase!
dashes n dots
July 12th, 2011
Great post very inspirational like the top one best. Making us look at our own site and we have only just redesigned it!
Tracy
Alex
August 18th, 2011
I have a website that deals with business topics and I have been looking for some inspiration for clean design. There is some really good stuff here to draw from! Good work!
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