20 Beautiful Dark Website Examples
Aug16
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
Ryan McMaster - Vancouver Web Designer

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
World of Merix Studio - Web Design Agency

Merix Studio uses dark, transparent imagery and gradients
Black Estate Vineyard - New Zeeland Winery

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

Typography, dark colors and texture adorn oink fu
Carnivale du Vin

Dark patterns and grungy brush backgrounds tie together nicely
Two24 Studios - Beautiful web Design & Development

Grunge textures mixed together with bright colors equal awesome
Handcrafted CSS by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte

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
Newspond - A Self Sufficient News Engine

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
Galan - Interactive Media

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
EyeMagazine - Orange County Web Design and Development

A dark design that really packs a punch... heh.
Ectomachine - Design with Intention

Grunge, punk and a killer robot baby just oozes awesome sauce
Ds Design - Personal space of Dries Schaballie

Amazing showcase of digital artwork
Hutchhouse - Creative Digital Design for Web & New Media

Crazy space giraffes and different background styles
VagrantRadio - Design and Development Resources

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

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.
mmmm, darkness. Nice examples.
Thanks for including Pop Labs!
No problem Sal, thanks for stopping by!