Color Inspiration: Wonderful Uses of Beige
Beige and tan are most often used in websites simply as background colors. They’re commonly seen used in paper textures, grunge sites, or, occasionally, as a solid-colored background. The advantage is that, because they’re neutral, they can easily be combined with any number of other colors without clashing.
The websites shown below offer a pretty complete picture of how beige and tan are used in today’s website designs. There are twenty five sites included, but please feel free to share more within the comments.
The Theme Foundry
All For Design
James Charlick
True Design
Advuli
Eighty Two Design
Sinopse
InkByte
Infinitum
I am Docto
Tenth Time
Make Film Work
Pixelcraft
Mr. Simon Collison
Giantpea
Noora Katto
Grafikas
ONETWENTYSIX
Carol Rivello
Cooper Graphic Design
People 82
Christopher Barrett – Photographer
Mutt Ink
Sprocket House
E3Solutions
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Now these are some VERY nice sites. I think I take Beige for granted, but its amazing what can be done with it.
nice sites
Add this one as well! http://borderleft.com/ Cheers!
I really like People 82 !
Beige is the new black! In all seriousness, these sites really are beautiful.
well… yeah… I knew it… ;-)
http://www.mosphaere.de
I just like those colour, especially as a paper-background in alignment with a deep red.
Greetings,
- mo -
Funny – I never consciously thought I was designing with beige. Now I feel all grown up.
Very Nice Collection!
The Color Beige gives out a smooth and natural feel to an interface.
Grafikas is great, all others look like templates in my opinion :/ It mean that the level of the templates are growing Up but it mean too that the “design” of all the (english) websites tend to become equals… i beat a dead horse but financial and marketing directors are definitely our “masters”, it’s sad my friends…
Beige you say? Well i never……. Defo food for thought
great collection.
20 more websites about web design… I’m sorry but you are insulating us, not inspiring us. Unless, this is a website solely for students. I think it can be more than that. Can’t beige be used for client websites? Or are you saying that beige really only works well when we’re making “web 2.0″ portfolio websites (where we get to choose which images and texts to work with.. and how hard is that?).
PLEASE show us 20 websites for car companies, restaurants, hardware stores, global banking… something that will actually help us do our work….
That would be awesome :-)
Those are nice beige themed sites, what is next periwinkle?
Great selections!!
Great Selection! Please take a look at a site I just finished thirdcoastfestival.org. I was the developer but the site was designed by Faust http://faustltd.com
Great, thanks for sharing!
The thing about beige (and Lord, I hate the term ‘beige’) is that is allows for highlights. It’s like drawing on toned paper–you can develop shadows AND highlights with conte crayons. This allows the designer to go in two directions (lighter and darker) from base color.
Also, *beige* is neutral w/o being cold as grey often is. It mixes well with other colors while retaining a slight warmth or ‘friendliness’. I think that’s a key point for websites–you want to convey warmth to users, since there’s no actual human interaction between user and keyboard/screen.
great collection!…Love all!
It’s really awesome! Than you so much!
i like it ….. Christopher Barrett – Photographer …nice +10 from my side
I like the colour beige as it lets me be able to play around with other colours than can be “blended” into it…it gives that “light airy ” feeling, but can also be used in a dirty grunge way as well..
my website and blog (http://www.krishnasolanki.co.uk) incorporates beige in the background colour, however has a hint of yellow as well…just to give it that brighter look…
Nice to see how other designers use Beige!….
good collection!
Really Nice Website
Wow i just love brown/beige, thanks for that, goes directly to the bookmarks.
Some of them are nice, but I don’t really like any of them. I suppose beige is not my color.
Nice
Thanks..
Awesome set.
Good post Callum.
Hello here,
thanks for the featuring :)
love it, thanks ;)
What do you think of http://precinkt.com/ ? Another beautiful beige site.
It’s my fav color scheme :)
http://www.studzinski-slusarz.pl/
wonderfull color, thank’s for sharing :)
Eighty Two Design is really great…
something new ;D
I’ve always been a bit wary about using beige in my design work, but some of these ideas have really given me food for thought! Great collection.
Excellent – thanks!
I like the Cat’s Eye site. Not only because of the subject (learning from errors), but also the combination of 2 types of beige incombination with the kind of blue that was used.
Found it here: http://www.thecatseye.nl
Good Job!
Like my beige and green site, look here http://www.leomiranda.com.
Beige is one of my favorite colors! That’s why I use it as a primary color for my site.
Excellent presentation with some beautiful sites!
Just noticed that images on this page only load when you scroll down the page far enough to have them appear on the screen = less download = faster page download. Any chance someone could point me to a tutorial on how to do this?
Thanks
I love lightly saturated hues!
Biege feels so natural, a worthwhile list post!
I just wanted to say thank you for the link, it’s nice to be featured!
All the best with future articles.
James.
Awesome collection!
I have seen many sites of these colors but don’t the name of these colors. Biege & Tan.
I liked People 82 layout from all above mentioned layouts. Indeed, its eye catching.
Thanks for citing it here. :)
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