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
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, Snipplr or Forrst.