20 Beautiful Dark Website Examples

Aug16
20 Beautiful Dark Website Examples

It's not easy to design a dark website and have it come out absolutely stunning, but many in the design community have managed to incorporate beautiful visuals within a gorgeous dark layout. Here are just 20 of my favorite standards setting examples of Dark website design for your inspiration.


Poplabs - Interactive Marketing Agency

Poplabs integrates beautiful typography, images and texture

Poplabs integrates beautiful typography, images and texture

Ryan McMaster - Vancouver Web Designer

Ryan uses lighting effects and texture in his dark design

Ryan uses lighting effects and texture in his dark design

Mike Precious - The Design Studio of Mike Precious

Mike also uses lighting effects and texture in his design

Mike also uses lighting effects and texture in his design

World of Merix Studio - Web Design Agency

Merix Studio uses dark, transparent imagery and gradients

Merix Studio uses dark, transparent imagery and gradients

Black Estate Vineyard - New Zeeland Winery

Black Estate Vinyard uses  simplicity to highlight it's beautiful typography

Black Estate Vineyard uses it's simplicity to highlight it's beautiful typography

Texture Lovers - Free textures, Inspiration and Tutorials

Dark, seductive textures highlight this sites purpose

Dark, seductive textures highlight this sites purpose

Oink-Fu! - Illustration and apparel designs by Kris Robinson

Typography, dark colors and texture adorn oink fu

Typography, dark colors and texture adorn oink fu

Carnivale du Vin

Dark patterns and grungy brush backgrounds tie together nicely

Dark patterns and grungy brush backgrounds tie together nicely

Two24 Studios - Beautiful web Design & Development

Grunge textures mixed together with bright colors equal awesome

Grunge textures mixed together with bright colors equal awesome

Handcrafted CSS by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte

Simple grunge background mixed with dark typography

Rich, brown color working together with eye pleasing typography

Internet Dreams - Creative web agency from Richmond, London

Beautiful, rich colors and large background images help this site to stand out amongst a crowd

Beautiful, rich colors and large background images help this site to stand out amongst a crowd

Newspond - A Self Sufficient News Engine

Beautiful icons, gradients and detail oriented graphics are truly an inspiration

Beautiful icons, gradients and detail oriented graphics are truly an inspiration

Danny Diablo - Portfolio of Daniel Knaack

The detail oriented images and grungy textures outline Dannys skills well

The detail oriented images and grungy textures outline Dannys skills well

Galan - Interactive Media

the simple, dark layout helps draw the eye to the featured content

the simple, dark layout helps draw the eye to the featured content

Carsonified - Creativity With Integrity

Simple is beautiful when done right, Carsonified hits it on the head

Simple is beautiful when done right, Carsonified hits it on the head

EyeMagazine - Orange County Web Design and Development

A dark design that really packs a punch... heh.

A dark design that really packs a punch... heh.

Ectomachine - Design with Intention

Grunge, punk and a killer robot baby just oozes awesome sauce

Grunge, punk and a killer robot baby just oozes awesome sauce

Ds Design - Personal space of Dries Schaballie

Amazing showcase of digital artwork

Amazing showcase of digital artwork

Hutchhouse - Creative Digital Design for Web & New Media

Crazy space giraffes and different background styles

Crazy space giraffes and different background styles

VagrantRadio - Design and Development Resources

You see what I did there? It's an obvious choice.

You see what I did there? It's an obvious choice.

Author: Jason Pant

Hi, I'm Jason. A front end developer from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and founder of VagrantRadio. I enjoy working with Css, jQuery, Php, learning new techniques in Photoshop and you should follow me on Twitter or Google Buzz.

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3 Comments

  1. Gwen Turner

    mmmm, darkness. Nice examples.

  2. Sal B

    Thanks for including Pop Labs!