50 Monochromatic Website Designs

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March 17, 2009

monochromatic_websitesColor choice is a key element to the success of any design. It invokes an atmosphere and sets the mood. One method for using color is to use only shades of a color, which is known as a monochromatic color scheme.

Of all the color schemes, the monochromatic is one of the easiest to pull off successfully. This reason for such ease is that one shade of a color will naturally almost always work with another shade of the same color.

One of the most popular monochromatic color schemes is Blue. This is likely because blue is seen as trustworthy, dependable and committed. Blue, however, is not the only successful color scheme. Greens, Purples, Browns, Reds can also appropriately set a mood.

In this article, we feature 50 monochromatic website designs, categorized based on the predominant color that they use.

Blues

Polar Gold

Francesco Mugnai

Loewy Design

Mezzo Blue

Ice Age

Davroc

Sell My Mobile

Marko

Mozilla

nClud

David Salvatori

One More Pixel

Refresh

Aware Spot

Bica Absolute

Home Design Field

Brandon Hale

Design Junction

Ivor Design

Iceberg

Branded07

Stlye Division

Tennessee Winter

Six Central


Purples

Wilson Miner

Design SVN

Henry Hoffman


Reds

Kobe

Lealea

Finer Home

Aaron J. Shapiro

TweetCC


Oranges

Citizen

James Lai

TagDiri

Matt Dempsey


Browns

Wiser

We Love Wordpress

Fly Guy Designs

Sofa Surfer

Bex

Bird of Malaysia


Greens

Silverback

Mint

Art of Dying

EvoDesign

Lipton


Blacks, Whites and Grayscale

Media Temple

The Invoice Machine

Mike Precious


Compiled exclusively for WDD by Michael Shelton. Michael is a web designer and graphic design student who has worked in both web and print for over 4 years. 

Which color scheme is your favorite to use and why? Do you know of any other examples besides the ones listed here? Please post them in the comments section of this post.

WDD Staff

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