50+ Beautiful Websites with Great Colour Schemes

Here is another guest post, this time from Stu Greenham, a web designer / developer from Hull, United Kingdom and creator of the upcoming design and development blog DesignWoop.com. You can also follow Stu on Twitter – @stugreenham. If you like this post from Stu, you should also check another Inspired Classic – 25 Bright WordPress Themes Using Popping Colors As a Web Designer myself, I spend a lot of time trawling through tonnes and tonnes of websites looking for that spark of inspiration ensuring my design’s are fresh and adapt current web trends. More often then not, the websites that stand out are the ones use bright, bold and effective color scheme’s and these are the ones I tend to remember. Panelfly LogoCranium Custom Toronto Clearleft Jay Hollwood Alessandro Cavallo Analog Strutta Vuu Maryland Security Blue Pixel The Mattinator Mike Poss Zendesk uiDigital Brightkite Sprouter Notable Eastern Ranges Brooklyn Fare Trent Walton Puma Guerra Creativa Oyster Design Maurivan Luiz Mutant Labs Ecoki New to York Glue

27 Examples of Color Usage in Web Design Here on WDL, we’ve discussed how colors can be used to invoke various emotions. For example, the color red symbolizes excitement and energy, while the more tranquil color blue represents calmness and stability. Here we’ve gathered a collection of web designs that make good use of color. In these examples you’ll notice some using color to highlight and draw attention to specific elements, while others use larger amounts of color to set the over all tone of the site. Nevertheless, there’s plenty of color usage here to inspire you. indubitablee Grind Best Made Engine Creative Urbanoff Ignacio Macri The Combine S.Dallyn James Garner Fuzzco Sunday Best Neuarmy Karb Igor Zagnienski playground de Certau & Associes Alexander Zhestkov Hyper Flow Festival Column Five odopod Daniel Martin Archfirm JChebly Lefft The Manual Bloom Health Source: The Best DesignsAwwwardsunmatchedstyle About the Author Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Related Posts 414 shares Read More

The 16 Most Useful Color Inspiration Resources Every designer knows how important colors are for web designs. Getting the right combination of website colors is pretty difficult and involves a lot of trial and inspiration and, of course time. Here are 16 resources, that in my opinion every designer should have. Color Changer Color Combos Daily Color Scheme Color Wizard Colr Kuler Adobe Colour Lovers 4096 Color Wheel I Like Your Colors [postadsense] Color Hunter Pic2Color Color Blender Color Theory Visualizer Color Schemer Gallery Color Palette Generator Instant Color Schemes

50 Bright and Vibrant Web Designs – Color Inspiration The conservative web designer can design a dark web site or a light web site, and will design everything in between as gray. Are you this type of designer? Or, are you bold enough and brave enough to let your creativity rein free and allow bright and vibrant colors to shine through in your next design project? What does the level of color on your web site say about you? Yellow in Web Design Creative Spark Helveticons Imaginary Design Robin Uleman Ryan Keiser The Other Design Agency Agatha Group Mikio Inose Orange in Web Design Four24 Bumbershoot My Minnesota Orchestra Citizen Design Chance Graham Muller Colart Creative Agency Blue in Web Design Sanat Rath love freelancing NineFlavors volll Jóvenes contra la Violencia Razorbraille Blymp Hospedagem FeedStitch Vanity Claire Paraply Happy Dangy Diggy Open Atrium reichweite Kosh Creative EyeDraw Red in Web Design New to York TooMuchTweet: A TweetApp Tuesday >Green in Web Design Elmwood Purple in Web Design Aespec Fair & Lovely Daguia Tortas Finas Pink in Web Design Douglas Menezes

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