Super-Clean and Minimal Web Designs: 70+ Stunning Examples and Resources
The web industry nowadays is very productive. During these years there have been many trends followed and every day the designers experiment new techniques creating new tendencies in the art of making website.
Recently is evident the necessity of a direct communication with customers and a website is the first place where a company can make know their cool stuff and services. A well-designed website is important for the growth of a business and often to create a “fresh” and clear image for a company (or a product, or a freelancer) we need the help of the art of simplicity. For these reasons a minimal and super-clean layout can be the perfect solution for an attractive website.
In this post, after a little overview, you’ll see some of the best examples of minimalism in modern web design
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A Short Overview
Building a super-clean website that works is not an easy operation. The web designer should create an impressive, harmonious, design using only basic elements.
Contrast
Contrast is the value difference between the colors on your design and it is import in any web design work, but when we talk about minimal website a good contrast is not enough. We need more contrast, we need the perfect balance between background color and text color.
Typography
It has been proved. An opportune use of typography is essential for a good web design work. In some cases, specially when text has a notable relevance, it is the most important design element.
For clean and minimal websites the right choose of the typography, that means a good fonts, appropriate size, correct hierarchy (title, sub-header, body text) and a thoughtful use of the spaces, is absolutely indispensable.
Photos and Images
A good photo or a beautiful illustration can make precious a website, and sometimes the images become the fulcrum of the entire design.
Harmony of Layout
Designing “invisible lines”, planning a proper arrangement of the contents on the page are two important things to do for building a readable and harmonious web page.
Details make the difference
A detail can make the difference, of course. Often a tidy particular is the key to make unique a website.
Showcase of Super-Clean and Minimal Websites
01. Maurivan Luiz
02. Brooklyn Fare
03. TypoJungle
04. The Streethearts
05. Buzzsaw Studios
06. Detail. Design Studio
07. Sveinn Davíðsson
08. Jamie Gregory
09. Design and branding news
10. Cabedge.com
11. Eleven.Six DesignBuero
12. The Typographic Desk Reference
13. Steev Szafranski
14. Emptees
15. Metagramme
16. Berit Sømme
17. Design by silnt
18. Typographica
19. Frieze Magazine
20. Poccuo
21. JeffCroft.com
22. Nathan Carnes
23. Vesess
24. Concentric Studio
25. Daring Fireball
26. Stories & Novels
27. Black Estate Vineyard
28. The Official Squarespace Blog
29. Pixelcraft
30. I love Typography
31. Howdy!
32. Independent Studio
33. Indie Labs
34. TheManInTheSea
35. Grow Interactive
36. Clearleft Ltd.
37. I Wear Your Shirt
38. GeeksPhone
39. Lovely Day
40. Creative Online Media
41. FindMeByIP
42. Capitol Circle
43. Joe-MacDonald.co.uk
44. Pixelmanya.com
45. Lemon Oak
46. The Portfolio of Sebastian Jaramillo T
47. Grepit
48. Kyle steed
49. Brian Hoff
50. DJ Johny Favourite
51. Adlucent
52. Meinl Percussion
53. Kim Burgess
54. Ignacio Ricci
55. Kerplunc Web Development and Design
56. Jerome Gravel-Niquet
57. The Bigger Design, Inc.
58. Ostmodern
59. Lonely Tweet
60. DesigningTheNews.com
61. David Arias
62. Alltop
63. Clagnut is Richard Rutter
64. David Airey
65. Finch
66. Jason Santa Maria
67. Jon Phillips
68. The Netsetter
69. Aiga New York
70. David Arias
71. Carsonified
Free Resources – High Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Minimal Design Templates
01. T-20
02. O’No! Typography
03. Worldlines
04. Fresh Restaurant
05. Jungleland 1.0
06. SindromK
07. Colourise 1.0
08. Luvbold
09. Extreme Georgia
10. FreshMedia 1.0
11. Typographic Times
12. FreshPick 1.0
13. JavaScript Tricks
14. Experimental
15. MiniCon
16. Keep It Simple 1.0
17. Typo Today
18. Inverted Headline
19. Greenie Theme
20. Blue Inc
21. Safe As Houses
Free Resources – High Quality Free WordPress Minimal Design Themes
01. Compositio
02. Imagination
03. Evidens
04. Keep it Simple
05. Irresistible
06. FreeStyle
07. Sharpfolio
08. CryBook
09. Blog Theme
10. Firebug
11. Statement
12. Simply Ornate
13. Jynxed Theme
14. Elite
15. Elements of SEO
16. Lorem Ipsum
17. Portfolio
18. Portfolio Press
Find Something Missing?
While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great minimal and simple designs. Feel free to share it with us.
Nice simple and very versatile web designs.
http://simple.wpseo.de from Germany.
Include http://www.marianaonate.com ;)
Brilliant collection! Great work and a great deal of inspiration. Thanks for sharing
Nice !
http://www.b-ds.fr/ ;o
great list!
http://nikeshpatel.co.uk
;)
Uninspirational. Long type. who reads all this drivel. What happened to design on the web? Wake me up when we stop going backwards…
Very nice. Clean and uninvasive. I like it.
Beautiful sites!
I’d add http://ubersuper.com
Good list, big fan of minimalism.
nice collection and great sharing
Great resource. I wanted to point out though, you mixed up Nos. 64 and 67. The wrong name and URL is posted with the others Web site preview image.
Cheers for including us in such a nice collection. Some very sexy examples of minimal design there.
You have David Airey’s and John Phillips images swapped around.
thanks for this great post.
maybe http://karolzielinski.com ?
I humbly submit my own site to this list:
http://www.holster.co.uk
It’s a WordPress site, but I put a lot of work into giving it a unique clean look and stripping back the structure etc to be as straightforward as possible. It’s my portfolio and blog…
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@Matt Hill: All set now… thanks for the heads up !!
Great selection! Maybe one day mine (http://www.jeybala.com) will be up there.
A decent list, but I’m not sure if the majority of these qualify as “minimal”. I think that term gets thrown around too loosely these days.
Very pleased to see mine included within such a fantastic list, thanks!
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great list, some amazing examples of minimalist sites.
Most of your theme demo links are dead and lead to media1.smashingmagazine.com
Here is another minimal clean style website: http://www.studioweber.com
I like your showcase. I haven’t seen some of the sites before. just retweet this.
minimal is so awesome. Thanks for all the great examples.
Include http://www.klairesta.lt
Definitely going to use one of these on my blog. I am to confused as what to use and what not to. Please help me.
My blog’s address is Tweak and Trick
I personally really like minimalist website. Some of the ones mentioned in this post are really great.
Thanks for sharing real collection nice websites – very inspiring. I think minimal web designs are under rated – as in less is some times more looking at these examples.
Those designing are really great
I think I will be using them for my site
Great list! So helpful.
Amazing collection. Can i suggest you a site? niuenso.com
Minimalistic and versatile websites. Nice Selection