Website Chat from Envolve

Categorized | Design, Featured

30 Dark, Beautiful Designs For Inspiration

Posted on 19 November 2008 by admin

There are many trends we see popping up in web design, but one that seems to really making a surge is a trend toward dark sites. I’m guessing it has something to do with everyone going “green” these days, and trying to do what they can to help the environment. I don’t know if dark sites save much energy, but the sites listed here are stunning! They use the dark to create drama. Adding color to a dark design creates a rich and tasty contrast, and one of the most common features of these sites is the saturated imagery. If you’re anything like me, you study amazing sites for inspiration, and hopefully, these won’t let you down.

1. Sawyer Hollenshead

Sawyer Hollenshead - Personal Portfolio


2. Airnz Fashion Week

Air New Zealand Fashion Week

3. A Simple Cell

A Simple Cell | The design home of David Sutoyo

4. Benoit Beauchaine

Directeur artistique freelance Web, Print, Identit�Photographie - Benoit Beauchaine

5. Tapbots

Weightbot | Tapbots

6. Inverse Paradox

Inverse Paradox, LLC :: Internet   Design Solutions :: Philadelphia, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Maryland, USA

7. Design That Delivers

Dumbwaiter Design

8. Ba21

Home 203A BA21

9. supraelastic

Supraelastic

10. Raven Photography

Raven Photography

11. Y Factorial

Y|Factorial, LLC 2013 Custom iPhone and web application development services | Home

12. unblab

unblab: Brief Email for Busy People

13. Natalia Devalle

nataliadevalle.com.ar » home

14. Web Designire

Irish CSS Web Design Gallery - The Best CSS & Flash Websites from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Dublin & Belfast

15. Locle

Index | Locle

16. Nice Things

The Home of Nice Things

17. Professionnels Sans Frontieres

Professionnels sans fronti�s

18. Adrenalin Magic

Duo Carlos - Adrenalin Magic Show

19. Rosemont Media

Search Engine Marketing Advertising Internet Video and Website Design by Rosemont Media

20. Club Amber

Amber Nightclub Ireland - Dundalks Best Niteclub

21. Artz Studios

ARTZ Studios

22. Yosoy Gil

Portafolio | yosoygil

23. Hello

hello.bg - 043B04350441043D043804420435 043E0431044F04320438

24. Sultantasarim

Web Tasar0131m Webtasarim Sayfa Tasar0131m Grafik Tasar0131m

25. Yurex

YUREX - 30D330F330DC30FC30863059308A309279D15B663057305F30B330E930DC30FB30D730ED30C030AF30C83092958B767A

26. Thisilver

thisilver.com // design para web & usabilidade & multimidia & illustration > portfolio de Thiago Silvestre”/></p>
<p>27. <a href=Versions App

Versions - Mac Subversion Client (SVN)

28. Arsln

Fatih Arslan, Web Designer/Developer and Graphic Designer(Freelance) | Fatih Arslan'0131n Ki015Fisel Websitesi

29. Trader Colony

TraderColony - The elite stock and trader community on the Internet

30. Eye Candy Animation

Eye Candy - Tasty Animation

So there you have it. Plenty of inspiration for your next dark site. Did I miss any? If you know of a great dark site, tell everyone about it in the comments.

Related Lists:

If you enjoyed this post, Let others know! Delicious StumbleUpon Facebook Reddit Mixx
  • It actually inspires me to create a new site with dark theme background. Looks really mystique and sophisticated.
  • My favourite is the design from Rosemont Media. I like pictures of Planet Earth.
  • those designs ares stunning
  • Black background sites are certainly cool but it depends on the target audience. Older people tend to hate websites with black backgrounds.
  • Black backgrounds for websites are cool. However, Websites with dark backgrounds do not convert well. Maybe it is the mystique that attracts but not having the ability to sell.
  • Thanks for including my site instead of the copy :)
  • Thanks for including my site!
  • I have to agree with play free games. Black is a very powerful colour!
  • Yay, thank you for having us here :)
  • My favorite sites are #2 and #12 because I think they use the elements pretty well. Color black is powerful and you can create great things when you use it properly.
  • Friend of the Internet
    Design number 13 is an almost exact copy of this site: http://nataliadevalle.com.ar/
  • shaun76
    Fixed! Thanks again.
  • shaun76
    Damn! I hate seeing that. I'll switch it out for the original today. Thanks for the heads-up.
blog comments powered by Disqus
Advertise Here
Advertise Here