June 1, 2009

20 Quality examples of high contrast in web design

Posted in Design, Inspiration by Gergely Marton | Tags: Design, high contrast, Inspiration, List

My 10th grade art teacher told me that high contrast can be used only on white or black backgrounds to underline focus on things you want to communicate. I think it was a bold declaration of not thinking out of the box and not following design trends set by teenagers and young artists. Anyway, since then I was very interested in high contrast designs, not only because of their “non-conformist” way of tellings things, but because of the simple way people create them.

I searched some of the CSS Galleries out there where I found an built up a neat list of great web sites based on high constrast:

Snog Pure Frozen Yogurt

Swapafrock

Ewebbed

Leetside

Work [at] play

Duoh!

Cornish Mutual

Sitesquared

Red Nose Day

Intellect Training Enterprise Limited

Douglas Mendez

Ecto Machine

Devia

France Pants

Andre Augusto

Midia Effects

WillPortifolio

Kirsch und Nagel

Bireau for Visual Affairs

SacJazz Festival 09

I hope you’ll like this list and start considering High Contrast color schemes in your design projects.

Write me what you think about these websites and the funky colors by leaving a comment below!

Author: Gergely Marton (20 Articles)

Marton Gergely is a self-tought web designer and developer with over seven years of experience. He owns his own little web design agency WebGurus, and runs this blog in his spare time. Usually the work gets more important for him than anything else, but he struggles to get some time to read and to play his violin.

12 Comments to “20 Quality examples of high contrast in web design”

June 2, 2009 at 12:29 pm
web designer says:

Thanks u r information
June 10, 2009 at 11:05 am
Web Design Quote says:

Thanks for the 20 Quality examples of high contrast in web design. It would help me a lot to learn from an examples and implementing on my design. Keep up the good work.
August 25, 2009 at 8:54 am
refugee says:

Good Inspiration! THX
September 18, 2009 at 5:32 am
erika says:

GREAT! Thanks for this information n_n
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May 16, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Kwiaciarnia says:

that was plain and simple! thats what i like to find in web design sites! i will use it soon
June 17, 2010 at 11:19 am
Logo Service says:

What’s lacking in the header graphics????
July 8, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Nicole Jewell says:

hello,
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July 27, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Vince Del monte says:

Finally have all the info I need for my research, great post!
August 5, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Coloring Pages says:

A topic close to my heart thanks. Like your blog design too.
August 9, 2010 at 4:08 pm
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