25 Beautifully Colorful Websites for Your Inspiration

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Color is an important aspect of any type of design. In web design, bold use of color is often avoided, but certain websites embrace a more aggressive use of color. This page showcase some beautiful examples of websites that use a lot of colors or bold colors to create designs that stand out.

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Colorful Websites Showcase

3 Sided Cube

App development company 3 Sided Cube certainly doesn’t shy away from using bright colors on its website. The homepage features a combination of bright green and pink. Some of the other pages on the site use a dark background, and if you click to open the navigation menu, you’ll see a bright green background there too.

3 Sided Cube

Elegant Themes

Elegant Themes is a popular WordPress theme shop and their own site makes great use of color. From buttons to backgrounds to text, there are colorful elements used throughout the site.

Elegant Themes

Design Calendar

Not only is this website colorful, but the background changes color! If you’re a fan of colorful designs, you’ll love this one. As you scroll down or navigate to other pages, you’ll continue to see colorful elements, animation, and excellent design.

Design Calendar

Orangery

Orangery’s homepage includes a full-width slider that features several very colorful slides. Bold color is used throughout the website, including an orange background when you click to open the menu.

Orangery

Bulk Actions for Gravity Forms

This design uses a bold purple background to create a highly memorable design.

Bulk Actions for Gravity Forms

Flux Academy

Flux Academy offers online courses for designers, so it makes sense that their own website would be well designed. The homepage area above the fold features a strong background color. As you scroll down, the background is white, but there are splashes of color found throughout the site.

Flux Academy

Boogie Lover Band

This one-page website for a band uses a fun, colorful design. The design is the perfect fit for a high-energy disco band. Vintage fonts and text effects are also used effectively to complete the look.

Boogie Lover Band

Outlab

This design and development company has an awesome website. The colorful background helps it to stand out and be memorable, but the entire site is well-designed and does a great job of showcasing its work. As you navigate to another page, you’ll see a really nice effect that gives the appearance of zooming over the mountains in the background.

Outlab

Cyclemon

Cyclemon is a fun website that displays designs and illustrations of different types of bikes. As you scroll down the homepage, you’ll see a number of different designs, and the background color will change. There are a number of colorful backgrounds that are used to help make the site feel fun and exciting.

Cyclemon

Milkable

The website of this Australian creative agency uses plenty of color in the design. Blue is a predominant color throughout the site, and there are also a lot of photos that introduce more color and a greater range of colors.

Milkable

Sennep

Sennep’s portfolio website uses a bold, colorful background. Some of the secondary pages on the site, like the “Work” page, use alternate background colors but are still equally bold. The site also features some nice animation effects that help it to stand out.

Sennep

Goliath

In terms of creativity, Goliath’s website is off the charts. Not only does the site make extensive use of color, but there are also creative illustrations and all kinds of effects as you scroll the site. This approach works well for a creative company like Goliath, but probably would not be appropriate or effective in a lot of industries.

Goliath

Molly Dooker Wines

This website is full of colorful and artistic illustrations. It’s an approach that you don’t see very often with e-commerce designs, but it is well done. Each page has a unique layout or design, so there was plenty of attention to detail needed when creating this website.

Molly Dooker Wines

Gum

Gum uses a minimalist design style with a bright pink background color. Many designs that use a minimalist style also have simple color schemes, but Gum shows that it’s possible to combine minimalism with bright colors.

Gum

Zero

Zero is a fasting app that has an impressive website. The site features beautiful images and lots of color. Secondary pages, aside from the shop and the blog, also use colorful backgrounds.

Zero

Boost

The bright orange background of this site is sure to get your attention. Scroll down to see some creative animation effects and a change in the background color. Throughout the site, you’ll see big, photos of the product prominently displayed.

Boost

Utrust

Utrust’s website is beautifully designed. It’s colorful, laid out well, and it makes use of excellent animation and scrolling effects.

Utrust

Creative Elements

The website of Creative Elements uses a gray background with splashes of colorful (blue and purple) elements throughout the site. The homepage includes a large and colorful swirl. Secondary pages continue the trend, but with smaller elements.

Creative Elements

Themeisle

Themeisle’s design uses a nice amount of color, without anything extreme. Blue and green are the primary colors throughout the site, with a nice blue background at the top of pages.

Themeisle

Spline

Above the fold, the homepage has a bold red background. The background color changes to black and eventually to white as you scroll down. Other pages on the site use a white background with black text.

Spline

Inidicius

This website uses a blue background above the fold on the homepage, as well as colorful animation. As you navigate the site, most of the content sits on top of a white or light background, but there are colorful elements in illustrations on every page.

Inidicius

Responsive Expert

The website of this PSD to HTML service provider features a blue background and colorful illustrations. Secondary pages use a colorfully illustrated header.

Responsive Expert

A Designer’s Manifesto

This creative website features plenty of color. Between the backgrounds and illustrations, there is plenty to like. It’s a one-page site (aside from a brief About page) but there is a lot to see if you scroll down.

A Designer's Manifesto

Shapefest

This design is very colorful above the fold, featuring multiple shapes in different colors on top of a blue background. As you scroll down, the background is white.

Shapefest

Keep Off

This online game for kids uses colorful illustrations. Even if you’re not a kid, this game is pretty fun to play because you can see a lot of creativity in the design.

Keep Off

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