Color Inspiration: Awesome Red Websites

Color Inspiration: Awesome Red Websites

on Apr 26th 2010 with 41 comments

Red is a very powerful and strong color. It’s associated with a variety of things, from courage and bravery to warnings and danger. It’s also, of course, strongly tied to love and passion.

It’s a popular color in website design, though, due to its boldness, is most commonly used as an accent color. With that said, there’s no reason why it can’t take on a more prominent role in a website’s overall design, as demonstrated in these twenty-five awesome red websites.

Intensity in Ten Cities

Big Spaceship

Grafik

jonwallacedesign

Codebutton.com

Chrome

Khai Liew

Thierry Castel

Hemlock

Sonze Design Studio

Host Riser

Youth Against Sudoku

Take the Walk

Remood

Waider Mediendesign

Liga Retro

Saforian

Red Relevant

Coalmarch Productions

Avalon Business Advice

Mirror Communications

Blogsessive

New to York

Associate

Truf Creative

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  • Olim

    Cool designs. I love it.

  • http://tzappa.net Tzappa

    Now I know never to do red sites. Thanks!

  • DeannRie

    Cool! Thx

  • http://softpedia.com campuscodi

    You can add this one to the list too. link

  • http://jaina Jaina

    I love the use of red on the web – awesome collection of websites using the colour really well!

  • http://www.crearedesign.co.uk Stephen Webb

    This is a great selection of sites that show a range of styles, all with the right usage of colour. It is clear from these examples that red can be combined successfully with a range of other colours, if used in the right context.

    I particularly like the ‘Take the Walk’, ‘Host Riser’ and ‘Big Spaceship’ sites from the examples given. The ‘Host Riser’ site makes great usage of drop shadows, gradients and reflections, resulting in a very modern and appealing style.

    Take the walk uses a lot of black, yet it is not depressing or overpowering. This adds to the feel of the site, and combined with red and white makes a visually appealing style. I will be interested to read the examples given in the comments and see any additional sites of this quality.

  • http://monieweb.com Monie

    You forgot Monieweb.com :)
    Never thought RED will be widely use…

    • w1sh

      This site sucks. Don’t be tricked into thinking it’s worth the click.

  • http://www.96black.co.nz Mark Osborne

    Love these design roundups. Great inspiration!

  • Jesper

    Great inspiration… Also this is worth a view: http://www.goditskik.dk/ (in danish)

  • Ray Dilla

    ahsht.com is a nice example.

  • http://www.misterhonk.de honki

    i love red, and these are some stunning red pages. my site is also nice colored red, maybe you will have a look at it. It would be a pleasure for me if you take a look.

  • http://www.sgobin.com.br Sgobin

    My I sugest another two of my own?

    The company have two different line of products, one for heavy tools and other for irrigation, and the same red logo. So I came up with to different approachs: http://www.krebs.com.br/krebs/ and http://www.krebsfer.com.br/2009/

  • http://www.BertrandLirette.com Bertrand

    Red is the shizzle.

    I know I’m repeating myself but it would be nice to write “why” such site is good instead of just throwing sites around. You know, like educate people, debate and everything.

    At least, in this article, I actually liked the examples. “Take the Walk” example is a bit disturbing to use red in this context. Red and dark colors are always a good match to captivate the audience’s attention thought.

    • w1sh

      +1, I’d really prefer 2 or 3 really good examples with a small breakdown of how they made good use of a certain element (in this case – red), rather than a horde of mediocre sites with no indication to what’s good in the design.

    • Belinda

      I agree!

      • Tom Caggiano

        I agree and the only decent site in this list is grafik

  • http://www.jordanwalker.net Jordan Walker

    Nice collection of red websites.

  • http://www.mediacake.net dan

    A good collection of sites, lov the ‘take the walk’ site good work
    thanks

  • CodeDude

    Oh my goodness-Where’s Made by Elephant?

    http://madebyelephant.com/

  • Nate
  • http://www.bebop-ad.com BebopDesigner

    Brilliant collection! Love Khai Liew and Youth Against Sudoku. Great post.
    Cheers

  • http://wptricks.net WP Tricks

    RED is our Favorite colors ever ;)

  • http://www.ekom.com.au Ken Shan

    you will never go wrong with red combine black & white.

  • clea walford

    I like the use of red on the web, but think it is still better as an accent color – thanks for the interesting collection of websites.

  • http://www.jubari.com Basti

    I can’t believe the most obvious example hasn’t been mentioned so far: http://ff0000.com/ by Red Interactive.
    Nice collection, though.

  • http://www.surgeforward.com Surge Consulting Group

    Thanks for rounding these sites up. Great post!

  • http://www.eyebridge.in Eyebridge

    Nice collection of Red sites ….. if i had got this post earlier, i could have saved a lot of time as well as been productive in the last project i did which was of similar kind. :) what can i do !! Anyways thanks , Nevertheless it was still helpful for future.

  • http://www.sjlwebdesign.co.uk SJL Website Design

    Great post, Really nice red designs.

    So inspiring, thanks.

  • http://www.retinacomunicacao.com Gabriel

    Great list, thanks. We’re creating one http://www.retinacomunicacao.com . we are learning about it.

  • http://www.litmusonline.com/ Web Design Portfolio

    If some one doesn’t love the Red color, than he or she might fall in love with red color after seeing this collection. It’s fabulous set of design forever. I loved all of them as Red is mine favorite color too. Anyway thanks for sharing Love symbol color. :)

  • http://celsius.ws jayoh
  • http://www.mammut-medien.de/ Online Werbeagentur

    I get a new logo now and I have still not decided if I should stay with blue and grey or if I shoud switch to red and grey. What do you think?
    Anyway nice collection of red websites. Bookmarked and shared already.

  • http://www.worldwebdesigned.com jasa website murah

    great collection red templates…

  • http://www.softon.com.ar/home softon

    The red website design is beautiful, softon was created one wesite inspirated in Coca-cola all in red you can see here–> http://www.softon.com.ar/es/inspiracion/web-inspiracion-estilo-elegante-coca-cola/

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  • http://doubledogproductions.com Dani Dudovick

    Nice redweb. Here’s another one that’s red as red can be!

    http://doubledogproductions.com

  • http://www.guruinfoways.com Steev

    All time favorite red……. always look nice ,very nice designs !

  • Ganeshan Nadarajan

    Red is a popular color in website design, though, due to its boldness, is most commonly used as an accent color.