60 Minimal and Super Clean Web Designs to Inspire You
A clean and minimal web design is an effective way to convey an image of elegance and sophistication. This type of design is all about doing more with less, and making use of plenty of white space to let content and page elements breathe. However, it can be difficult to come up with a solid minimal website, because you can’t rely on “shiny” design elements to make things visually appealing. So if you’ve struggled in the past to tackle this type of web design, we’re here to help. Here’s a showcase of 60 minimal and super clean web designs to inspire you.
Sleepover, San Francisco
Nicholas Cary
70/SF
The Carbon Co-op
Process Journal
Thorsten Van Elten
WorkLifeBalanceCentre
Bernard Tschumi Architects
Effektive
NotJones
alan cook
hellomake.com
caseydunn.net
us (design studio)
Electric Gecko
theanthropologist.net
Ryan Willms
Good Inc.
Mr Toledano
midtone design
hunt studio
designschneider
Where They At
TA
coolandtheguide
Maksimer
fedena
Birch
Simon Heijdens
needswants.com
amillion things to do
haikavanian.com
Sveinn Davíðsson
Jamie Gregory
Daring Fireball
Stories & Novels
Johny Favourite
Antony Gormley
H by Harris
Root
superawesome
precinkt
Patrick Mullen Design
Spiritualized
studiofeed.ca
Masood Kamandy
Emrah Yaman
Design Code
wktokyo.jp
Thirteen.
Oscar Barber
Hot Meteor
Astheria
Berit Somme
pixelbot
made by on
Patrick Monkel
ben hulse design
pixelcraft
Rainfall Daffinson
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54 comments
Jason
May 17, 2010A wonderful collection of minimalist designs. Well done.
Creative Mashup
May 17, 2010Nice and quite fresh showcase….Root looks great.
Eko Setiawan
May 17, 2010Great list for inspiration, I love minimalist web design…thanks for share.
Federica Sibella
May 17, 2010Thanks for this bunch of fresh inspiration. Very nice collection.
Auré
May 17, 2010Waho… really cool selection with Ssome great examples.
I definitely love the “Berit Somme” portfolio…I already knew this website and I think I would never been tired of its fabulous design.
Web Traffic
May 17, 2010One thing about such minimalist designs is that it really allows the content to be focused and shine by itself.
Omer Greenwald
May 17, 2010Very cool. Electric Gecko and Oscar Barber are beautiful.
Charm
May 17, 2010Nice collection…
Carlo
May 17, 2010I noticed the design of ‘WorkLifeBalanceCentre’ is a hard rip-off from http://www.corporateriskwatch.com/index.html. Do you agree?
gmuller
May 17, 2010They sure look similar, but I don’t think it is a rip-off… maybe only a coincidence, or same inspiration and style.. not sure!
Simon France
May 17, 2010Really do like the simplistic elegance of Mid Tone Design, you and your mouse can’t help but want to click into the site. Which lets face it, is the main challenge to all web sites (user interaction).
Leandro
May 17, 2010Hi nice inspiration!
this kind of works
it helps me a lot to create my own new portfolio! http://www.revestido.com.ar
i like the black, grey and white sites movement
thanks
Leandro
Jordan Walker
May 17, 2010Real nice, I enjoy the minimalistic approach to web design.
Adrian
May 17, 2010The choice of font color for Nicholas Cary’s menu is horrible. Other than that very nice.
HowToPlaza
May 17, 2010A really cool collection of minimalistic web designs. Basically it’s all about removing the unnecessary, and slimming down the necessary too.
krishen
May 17, 2010thanx for sharing..
Dave W
May 17, 2010Interesting collection. I’m a big fan of minimal designed sites. I believe that the presentation of the content should never overshadow the actual content. Thanks for sharing.
Chris Mower
May 17, 2010I’m a mnmlst at heart. Thanks for the inspiration.
@scottcorgan
May 17, 2010Oh minimalism, you are much more than minimally beautiful!
Sarah William
May 17, 2010Great collection of web designs… This is definitely worth bookmarking and great source of inspiration…Among this Bernard Tschumi Architects is my favourite..
leon
May 17, 2010Nice collection. Am a big fan of minimal designs. Thanks for sharing.
Hope to see this one on a minimal web design list something. http://www.islandgrouptt.com
Hillary
May 17, 2010Always loving to see well designed clean websites. Thanks for the post!
BlogWebDesigner
May 17, 2010Really love the minimalist web design… thanks for share!
Mihai Moscovici
May 17, 2010Thanks for an excellent collection. I bet you’ll like this one – http://www.wearepropeople.com
Nigel
May 17, 2010Why can’t all websites be like these? Great collection
sarah
May 17, 2010Great work collection really good job thanks for sharing … keep it up
Warren Giffin
May 17, 2010Lovin that work, life, balance theme, should remember that sometime! Great collection, thanks!
Selman Gürlesin
May 17, 2010Nice collection…
Sara
May 17, 2010Love Maksimer, minimal but with a pop of color. Thanks for the inspiration!
gunnard
May 17, 2010There is also The Standard Theme
Rakesh Menon
May 18, 2010Very Neat! Designs have a good look and feel.
Jan
May 18, 2010Great list. Nice to see the various implementations.
My addition, for what it’s worth:
http://julia-art.nl/en/
Kai
May 18, 2010Great, minimalism is always my way.
Check out mine (: – http://yourneeds.tumblr.com
Wendell
May 18, 2010woo hoo! i love inspiring clean designs! thanks so much for this.
Jill Manca
May 18, 2010Wonderful list. Clean, clear, and beautiful websites.
versusprepress
May 23, 2010Great post! Minimal design makes me smile!
Johny Favourite
May 24, 2010Hey!
Thanks for including my site!
Eddie Gear
May 25, 2010Hi there,
Thanks. That is an awesome collection. I’ve love my designs to be simple, elegant and neat. I hope someday my site would also feature in lists like these.
Andrew Mooers
May 28, 2010Too many…way way too many pretty, busy sites that confuse, scare away and are like Christmas trees with large deposits of tinsel thrown on using both hands repeatedly. Your site, collection gives one hope. HELLO. Maybe that should be 30% of the opening page, to ease them in rather than deer in the head light arch welder atomic blast harshness approach. Thanks a bunch. Really. Not just being polite here.
cssah
June 2, 2010Lover of minimalism designs ,Awesome collection
Tom Cooney
June 3, 2010Some great work there, thanks for putting this list together.
Ignacio
June 6, 2010Nice collection.
Another clean design: http://www.vidasencilla.es/
RobbyDesigns
June 7, 2010I pride myself on being a modern web designer and am currently redesigning my own website in a minimal style. Perhaps you could add my site once it’s ready.
Nice article, some average example but some beauties too – I especially like MonkDesign.
Chris
June 10, 2010I tried to make a minimalistic page myself, but it isn’t really that easy. Thanks for inspiration.
Steve Graham
June 15, 2010Very well put together collection.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Eva
June 16, 2010I love minimalist web design, great collection!
Omar
June 16, 2010This is an awesome list. Simply beautiful. Thanks.
Angel
August 14, 2010Finally I get to see a real list of minimalist cool websites. I’ve been browsing for them for so long just to find plain websites with no graphics and Times New Roman and the alike fonts (the horror!). Thanx for sharing the list!
Sharon
September 13, 2010I like the Sleepover, San Francisco theme. It looks like a book and isn’t overburdened with images.
Bob Maten
November 26, 2010Thanx, really usefull for my new layout
!
Kars
April 21, 2011Great list, thank you very much. I went through them to look for inspiration for a contact page on a minimalistic site. Most of them had a contact page so this was very helpful. Minimal can be so simple and yet so stylish.
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