55 Minimal Black and White Web Designs to Inspire You
We’ve already shown you Yellow Web Designs and Blue Web Designs, but sometimes less color is the best color choice for a web site. In this post, we’re showcasing 55 minimal black and white web designs to inspire you. The B&W combination is great, from photography to interior design. It’s simplistic, elegant, and gets out of the way to let the content shine.
Art Directors Club of Europe
Blake Allen Design
Brian Hoff
Brancozero
The Grid System
Markus Albers
margaretlondon.com
Designing the News
Patrick Fry
postmachina
Rikcat Industries
GUNNER design house
fuse.
FRKT
Face.
edgewood
Black Estate
Traffic
FLOWmarket
sold-out.ch
Perky Bros LLC
Dewitte Casse
Ork Posters
Tim Bjorn – Design Studio
ArnaudBeelen.
Academy
QUE
AdKiivi
yugop.com
Proud Creative
iA
Fitzroy & Finn
Cirus family
TrouwAmsterdam
James Chambers
mrhobday.com
Music Design Agency
Not coming to a theater near you
Mash
lydia stone
Marcus Kraft
million
Established
SJH
anothercompany.org
We are Sofa
distrop
Stephane Elbaz
LEONG LEONG
Rebecca Niazi-Shahabi
Rob Schellenberg
SvB
Sven Stuckenschmidt
Jeroen Homan
About the Author
Gisele Muller is someone that recently discovered a new career online. A person that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. An eternal geek wannabe, tech fan and a communication lover! Current location: San Bruno, CA – USA. Twitter: @gismullr
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36 comments
Creative Mashup
April 26, 2010Nice showcase.
Gunner and Traffic looks great.
Armin C.
April 26, 2010I just love minimal design…
Sruthish
April 26, 2010Thanks for such a inspirational blog, i never found i could make interesting websites in black/white
Editha Fuentes
April 26, 2010Beautiful simplicity here! I have another another one
http://www.hobsondungog.com
Thanks for your always great blog!
Mihai
April 26, 2010Hi, thanks for a nice collection.
You definitely want to check out http://www.propeople.dk It’s a great black & white website.
Tom Heggie
April 26, 2010Great selection, was kinda hoping to get a mention myself for tomheggie.com never mind, maybe next time…
Hillary
April 26, 2010So pretty. Black and white has to be one of my most favorite design concepts. Something about it is so drawing and simple. Thanks for the collection!
Jordan Walker
April 26, 2010Seems plain to me, isn’t the world more beautiful with color.
Rak Design
April 26, 2010WOW great to see yugop.com on here even after 10 years being one of the best! Nice collection of sites.
Linh Pham
April 26, 2010clean and simple, black and white works well with a good portfolio that shines
Chris Mower
April 26, 2010I really like the Gunner and FLOWMarket ones, although all of them are well done.
Design That Rocks
April 26, 2010Great collection of sites…..I also love minimal design at times, and this is a good representation.
Pink Lotus Media
April 26, 2010I am loving this minimalist trend – clean and modern (and easy). I have to say that SJH and We Are Sofa seem to be the easiest to navigate, with items placed so that the eye is drawn to them. I am using more of this minimalist trend this year – but with black and white + one color. I agree with Jordan – the world IS beautiful with more color! Nice collection though! Great job!
Victoria Blount
April 26, 2010I think the black & white designs from above that work best are heavily typography based or have strong photographic elements in colour.
Paul
April 26, 2010Yes, something really great about these simple clean designs. I always want to revert my site back to something like this.
Katerwater
April 26, 2010Mash is very original. It looks like internet from the 90s! I love it’s amateurism, so much better than slick design.
Lena Tailor | DT
April 26, 2010These are fantasic! I really like these minimal designs
Gonzo the Great
April 26, 2010Hi Gisele,
Nice collection! I just published my online portfolio 3 weeks ago, maybe an item for in your next (white & black) round-up? ;-P
http://www.gonzographic.com ~ will appreciate the feedback!
Thanks for sharing, Cheers & Ciao …
Helen
April 26, 2010rebecca-niazi.de is not a “Web Design”. It is a piece of bad Flash. Would take me an hour to make it like that and better with standard html. Ridiculous.
Azizuan
April 26, 2010Great compilation. Thanks for inspiring. Keep it going.
Thiago Cavalcanti
April 26, 2010Parabéns pelo artigo Gisele, deve ter dado trabalho coletar tantos exemplos!
Anthony
April 26, 2010Very nice and interesting! I can tell you been doing your homework.
sbuster
April 26, 2010Hey I miss this very creative website and minimalist black and white
http://www.hoztdesigns.co.cc
Agence web
April 27, 2010Nice compilation.
Ted Thompson
April 27, 2010Brilliant, very inspirational!
Tina Norris
April 27, 2010What about Deja Vu Labs? I was just looking at it before I read this article. http://www.DejaVuLabs.com. It’s a good one as well.
Diogo Duarte
April 28, 2010I always thought that only me could feel the strong relation between Black + White and Helvetica…
Great.
WpEvolved
April 29, 2010I really like minimalist web design, well I like most everything that take a minimalist approach. This is a great Roundup!
Felipe Spina
April 30, 2010I reckon that most of websites are using Helvetica
Fish
May 5, 2010These are brilliant design. These designs have given me a new direction. Thank you so much for this list.
Lu
May 7, 2010Wow…very nice stuff.
Philadelphia medical
May 13, 2010Great round up, the simplicity that embodies some of these sites makes the amount of information that is contained impressive. Thanks for sharing.
GraphicsFuel
September 8, 2010This is a great list of minimal black websites that i have been looking for inspiration. Glad you listed them and I found the resource here on WDL. Thanks for sharing.
TexasRob
October 10, 2010Awesome minimal website from Budapest, Hungary.
http://www.freshness.hu
Derek
November 30, 2010This is a fantastic showcase. They show that you don’t always need splashes of color to make it look good.
Syed
January 12, 2012Amazing websites, feel energetic and geting more ideas!
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