55 Inspiring Examples of Gradients in Web Design

Posted by Gisele Muller on Apr 5, 2010 | 37 Comments

Gradients are a great way to add interest, color, and even depth to a web design. You can use the same color in many shades, many shades of many colors or several other combinations you may think of. You can go linear or radial. The point is that gradients are beautiful and can give your website a very unique style. You can use a cool gradient for the whole website design, or only in the header, footer or just in a couple elements of it, but I’m pretty sure about one thing: combining the right colors and shades will make you a gradient lover! You will start using gradients all over, maybe even at your dinning room wall.

So here is our inspirational selection for this week: beautiful gradients in web design. And don’t forget to tell us if you have some samples of gradients to share.

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37 comments

Ajay
April 5, 2010
Great collection! Thanks
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Subhash Khatri
April 5, 2010
Nice examples, Thanks for share
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Sruthish
April 5, 2010
Really a inspiring blog, Thanks for posting.
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Web Risorsa
April 5, 2010
Websites made of gradient always looks good with great finish as well… Great collection… And all the website are looking good…
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Lourens
April 5, 2010
Beautiful collection, thank you for sharing this, I can look at these designs for hours =D
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Aafrin
April 5, 2010
thx 4 the huge collection. need to start grabbing some ideas from those site…
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Erik Ford
April 5, 2010
Gisele, thanks for including our website design for lightsbydallas,com. It is an honor to be included amongst so many beautiful works of art that have found unique ways to incorporate gradients in their presentation.
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lava360blog
April 5, 2010
beautiful examples but i also personally like the way Microsoft designers use the gradients in there websites.
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Hillary
April 5, 2010
These are beautiful designs. My favorites are the ones with illustrations. Thanks for the collaboration!
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Aravind
April 5, 2010
It’s nice collections…..Thanks
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Jogos Gratis
April 5, 2010
Gradients are a very trick technique used by designs because it can make the website stand out or make it look really weird.
I really love gradients but I try to be careful when I have to use it.
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Jordan Walker
April 5, 2010
I agree those are very good examples of gradient web designs.
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Justin Carroll
April 5, 2010
Hey, thanks for including my Eastpoint design! It’s an honor to be featured by the WDL not to mention alongside the work of Michael Heald and Mars Hill Church.
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Gisele Muller
April 5, 2010
Thanks guys…
We are glad you liked our selection. =)
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e11world
April 5, 2010
Great inspirational designs to start of my week. THANKS!
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Sean Thompson
April 5, 2010
Thanks for the post. Our site features a few soft gradients. Would love to hear your feedback on it.
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Pink Lotus Media
April 5, 2010
I have a personal love for gradients! I use them everywhere. I especially like the light blue to dark blue ones and the gradient with the grunge texture overlay. Great examples!
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Brian Cody
April 5, 2010
Great source of inspiration!
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Polly
April 5, 2010
Really inspiring indeed, so many beautiful websites… Thanks!
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James S
April 5, 2010
Great collection, I’m particularly fond of those that use more than 2 or 3 colors.
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taobao
April 5, 2010
colorful background is definitely the trend for websites nowadays.
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Alex Flueras
April 6, 2010
Great refreshing designs. Most of them are new to me. Thanks for sharing.
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Angelee
April 6, 2010
I notice one thing, more and more websites are being collected for their great unique styles. So, more and more people are getting inspired. I really appreciate this!
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Damian Smith
April 6, 2010
Some really nice examples of gradients here, I think using gradients is actually harder than it can seem.

Sometimes when people use a gradient to try and make a design look “pretty” it can really look disastrous. People try and use too much and clashing colours that just don’t work.

I don’t like to go overboard with gradients, I think nice subtle hints of the odd bit here and there can really transform a website into something special.

I think the two that really stand out in this list are serj.ca and mospromstroy.com.

Thanks for sharing
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Tim
April 6, 2010
Inspiring blog article. Thanks
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guccicn
April 6, 2010
I love these Gradients and I want learn how to design it!

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gucci tote
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ukm
April 7, 2010
Some of them have nice design
I like green gradient above
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Victoria Blount
April 7, 2010
This post just proves that by adding a gradient to you website design it can add depth, make it look more 3 dimensional and have class and appeal.
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Designerfoo
April 7, 2010
Awesome!!!!! Loved it! Was looking for something like this to inspire me for my next design!
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Webatvantage
April 7, 2010
Nice collection!
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Rob
April 9, 2010
Love the intuition and creativity with this stuff… and am lucky enough to be pushing the envelope for a living as well!

http://www.nwmotoring.com uses a gradient background on its front page.
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inspirationfeed
April 9, 2010
Wow what a creative post, great collection.
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lono
April 12, 2010
wow!!! love the served gradients!
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Slavic
April 24, 2010
Mars Hill is LEGIT!
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Kiki
May 10, 2010
are there gradient codes in css?
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Sean Rainey
November 12, 2010
Fantastic collection, I just wish there were some more white/light grey websites, really struggling at the minute with my design.

Thanks
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Pritesh Gupta
July 24, 2011
Nice, thanks for sharing.
@Kiki
Yea, at check out at http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-gradient-text-effect
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