15+ shades of black in web design

Like our previous article yellow web design inspiration, black can be a very powerful colour and may scare some web designers with the breif of, a clean website, but must have a dark/black background.

Most people associate a clean website with a white minimal one, however black websites can be clean too, they don’t have to be dull and horrible. We are one to admit that black is probably the hardest colour to pull off in a web design, but we will prove otherwise with 15 stunning black web designs.

Blank in History

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Black Ties

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Build Responsively

buildresponsively

Black Estate

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Michel Doudin

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Welkome

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The Kennedys

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Tobias Van Schneider

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Jess and Russ

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Giloba

giloba

Ole Martin Kristiansen

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Start Up Giraffe

giraffe

Bones Brigade

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AED

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Blake Allen

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Street Wolf

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London Dribbble Meet-Up

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See, it wasn’t all doom and gloom. Black can be beautiful as well as dark and grungy. Look out for next article on 50 shades of grey in web design.. Make sure you give us a follow on Twitter or like us on Facebook to keep up to date with daily inspiration.