Purple In Web Design: A New Trend? Showcase And Something To Start
- 3 April 2010
- Web Design
- This post was written exclusively for PV.M Garage by Michela
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For a long time purple has been the least used colour in web design. In recent months I noticed the number of websites crafted using purple is increased. Try to browse some showcases across the web and you’ll notice more sites with various shades of purple in the recent entries.
Usually purple reminds mystery and spirituality.
The examples below demonstrate that this colour can give many different moods to web design, it depends how you decide to mix it: purple is a warm and cold colour at the same time.
Now let’s see in what clever ways and shades web designers are using purple in their own websites.
Inspiration In Purple!
Below a showcase of web designs with a subtle use of the color purple, they might be a good source of inspiration for your next works. Enjoy it!
Appear
Bearskinrug
Afar25
Dibi Conference
Silver Empire
Jan James Cox
Intuitive designs
Jonathan Moore
Nocturn
Full Fat Studios
Olive Crush
Light is Light
Shout
Silver Pistol
Skipvine
Tapmates
Tofeenut Design
Laura De Masi
Something To Start…
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Palette #1
Palette #2
Palette #3
Palette #4
Palette #5
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Nice article Michela, excellent round up, and i just love color palette you included.
Bravo!
Great article – thanks.
Nice to know my purple portfolio site is on trend: http://robert-chambers.com
I notice almost all – if not all – of the sites belong to designers themselves…not sites done for clients.
Sure Mara all these websites belong to designers.
I haven’t found so much quality/quantity about clients’ sites ,(just one or two)
Hey, very nice article.
Michy, you’re my absolute myth! nice, nice, nice….
voted and promoted great article!
nice collection. Good idea to include the palettes. thanks.
a very nice roundup with very nice and fresh designs. but what this entry made it special was adding palettes. you really gave me inspiration in purple, thank you
Thanks for mentioning our site (Intuitive Designs)! :)
We decided to go with purple mainly because it’s rare on the web and we thought it would help it stand out. Well, that and the fact that purple is my own personal favorite color of the moment. Can’t do that on client sites, but you can do what you want on your own, right?
It was hard to try to find a way to do it that wasn’t too feminine and we were worried it might turn people off because it was “too much” purple.
But, so far we’ve gotten a lot of good feedback. So, it worked out well. :)
Great article, I’m loving the color purple. Do you know why, Michy?
Thank you Michela.
You forgot mine!!
http://psdesignuk.com
http://psdesignuk.com/blog
Only joking :P Cool list, seems as though purple is the way forward!
Well I don’t know, but I hope so.. :D
Just wanted to add this one: http://www.Salaam.dk
pretty purple to me :)
Nice post!
I love this colour so much, and I am using it very often in my designs.
Hi Michela,
Thank you for sharing such a knowledge with the world… Purple is really a trend now a days… Even we have desinged one before few days… You should check this out… http://truevine.iqrconsulting.com
My fiancee Erin and I just completed our wedding website all done in Purple, check it out at http://tjanderin.com
I’m sorry, but Purple is one of the worst colours for online unless you designing for the elderly, the local crystals store of Edna the psychic.
Perhaps a highlight colour here and there, but dont let it dominate.
The psychology behind purple is really interesting and there are enough articles written on psychology of color.
But I would add that purple os one of those dangerous colours that is VERY subjective and is far more easily to alienate than others.
Having said this we just developed a site in purple at the direction of a client – but you’ll never see us letting anyone know what it is.
Nice article and love purple, our website is purple and although a few people warned us of the connotations of using purple, every client we’ve had in has so far commented on how nice it is to see a purple website, not sure why it’s seen as so different but it obviously sticks in peoples minds. http://www.squashedpixel.co.uk if you want to check it out
A friend of mine works at Puma (the sports brand) and he once told me that in a sales analysis by color, the result was that shoes or fashion using purple have the least sales.
Me, I love purple though – it’s an often overlooked color, but it can be elegant like black and at the same time innovative, since it is not used that often. Would definitely like to see it used more!
Nice article with great layout examples. I would mention another website that uses purple in combination with other colors: http://www.studioweber.com.
nice collection! seems like purple is the new black!
Purple has never been on my list of favourite colours, but after looking at the examples given on your article, it has changed my mind a great deal about the colour. Thanks for sharing this awesome post!
strange but not bad
http://www.purplematter.com
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