Many sites “play it safe” when choosing colors. Brilliant colors have to be carefully controlled to avoid looking amateur. I’ve selected these 20 sites for excellent use of color along with their overall web design. Quality of CSS, features, ease of use all come into play as well. Hope you enjoy!
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- Silverback – Guerrilla Usability Testing
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- Willians Fernandes – Portfolio
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- WP Glamour – Free themes and resources
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- notified.tv – Never miss your favorite tv shows ever again
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- AdaptD.com – Web Design and Development
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- base6 Design Studio
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- MyDezzignStudio – Freelance Web Designer
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- Ebugogo Rob Walsh – Freelance Website Design
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- yo vivo en Vigo – A cidade dos marineiros
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- Roseville Health & Wellness Center
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- Light CMS – Web 2.0 Content Management
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- Serj.ca – Serhiy Kozlov
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- Shylands – Freelance multimedia designer.
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- Volll
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- Regata Design & Development
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- Activate Psych Services
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- Twist Systems – Web Branding Design Development
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- Avalonstar – Distortion
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- Freelancer007 – Grafikdesign
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- Goodworks Media – Seattle Web Design Agency
EDIT:
http://silverbackapp.com/
http://www.willportifolio.com.br/
http://wpglamour.com/
http://www.notified.tv/
http://adaptd.com/
http://www.base6design.com/
http://www.mydezzign.com/
http://www.ebugogo.tv/
http://www.yovivoenvigo.com/
http://rosevillehwc.com/
http://www.speaklight.com/
http://www.serj.ca/
http://shylands.com/explore/
http://www.volll.com/#section_main
http://www.regata.co.il/
http://www.activate-p-s.com/
http://www.twistsystems.co.uk/
http://avalonstar.com/
http://www.webdesign-aus-bremen.de/freelancer.html
http://goodworksmedia.com/index.htm
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Great work. Will look through.
Great list of sites. Color choice is definitely one of the hardest parts of web development, something many designers glance over.
A great resource to use is kuler.adobe.com. You can download some great palettes in ASE format for use in PhotoShop.
Interesting list! I was looking at a website that made me really consider the role of color in design (www.zanperrion.com with its blue color), and then the next thing I see on the web is this list. Are there any studies that correlate the colors on websites to the usability (or feel) of a website?
Fascinating subject!
If you’re going to use others peoples work as the main purpose of the blog post, the least you could do is include proper links to their sites.
Nice choice !
Way to show respect and link off to the respective owners of the very well designed sites.
Yea link to original author would be nice
but anyways nice post. These days color depend more on client choice rather than what designer prefer.
… another one bites the dust… dun, dun, dun… another ones gone & another ones gone… another one bites the dust….
I can’t believe you wouldn’t even include a clickable link to the original sites. Why bother showcasing them at all?
A horrible set of sites, truly. Each one decorated and illustrated to death.
Crazy… I found my own site on this list….
I did the site for Goodworks Media and Volll was actually one of my inspirations.
thanks – andrew c.
I like the sites and disagree with Mikael’s opinion that they’re overdone. I do think a link to the original sites would have been very helpful for the post. The thumbnails get the point across all the same, however
great article.
Thanks Anders for thinking in my site, great selection!
Great blog, I design and learned allot of about colors. Also I just liked some of the designs. My style for sure, I love how images are being faded into the background allot now.
Hello Ander.
Nice great seletion!! congratulation.
Thank you for thinking my website.
Cyu,
Will
I like the use of color. I’m bored to death with standard black/white colors. Don’t let the standards bore you anymore … Get out there and design a colorful site with colorful quality graphics. Again, nice list
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Way to show respect and link off to the respective owners of the very well designed sites.
Great designs, really like the WP Glamour one and good to see how creative design can make a site more memorable
These sites really stand one which can be excellent if used to build up a brand