The sophisticated image of minimalism has always been a popular style of design. In webdesign a minimalist site is stripped naked of eye candy and fancy colours or effects, leaving the underlying structure exposed. The key to a beautiful minimalist site is a solid and structured layout, as well as focus on stylish and well designed typography. These 50 examples showcase some of the best minimal site designs out there on the web.
Chama
Kyle Steed
David Arias
Finch
Site Inspire
elCandor
Corporate Rick Watch
Black Estate
Fellswoop
Jason Santa Maria
Design Hotels
Squarespace Blog
Kyle Standing
Postmachina
Jamie Gregory
Vitor Lourenco
SOFA
Mark Boulton Design
Skinny Ships
Jeffdoe
The Typographic Reference
iLoveTypography
On
TheManInTheSea
Subtraction
AEN UI
80/20
Shift PX
DesignWorkPlan
Artypapers
F5 Fest
The Netsetter
Rikcat Industries
Zurb
Matt Bango
PixelHaven
The Old Fashioned
Jarad Johnson
DesignMe
Wilson Miner
Poccuo
GB Studio
Cabedge
Sisson Studio
Fuel Your Creativity
Hell Yeah Dude
We Love Typography
PixelUmbrella
Gordymac
Great roundup Chris! Personally I love the unique style of Jason Santa Maria
wooo!!!!
Aza Raskin’s site would be good on this list: http://www.azarask.in/blog/
Not sure if my design still counts as minimalist, but you can check it and see. :)
Thanks for posting siteInspire… in fact we have an entire section dedicated to minimal web design:
http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/minimal
I love minimal design, all of these are great examples. I really like the typography in some as well. Nice choices :D.
minimal design FTW! hehe. mine also based minimal design, kind of. hehe.
love it. I see how some of the 3-4 year old web designs still rule.
I tried the minimal concept in my new redesign this time.
i like it, thanks!
Love it !!!… btw here is another one good for the list http://www.sabrinagoh.com sweet~
cool stuff !
Most probably, you haven’t seen my current blog design :)
Wow, thanks for the mention. I’m honored.
very nice !!!
Great list – I really like the clean, minimalist approach. Less is definitely more these days.
Lovely collection – i’m thinking simplistic web designs when I redesign all my websites when I have the money & time. What about Greig Andersons portfolio? http://www.effektivedesign.co.uk/
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Greig’s work is particularly superb.
Thank for the mention and comments Calum/Daniel! Great list of sites here.
I think that http://www.posterous.com should be added to the list. Very clean. Also, I love that Helvetica is used in so many of those listed above.
This is a great list mate thanks I will defo check out some of these sites, I love minimilistic :)
Minimalism has something which always fascinated me, it is simple but it contains everything necessary! I would like to be able to do such thing!
I’m a sucker for inspiration in minimalism. A few excellent staples and a few that are brand new to me. Nice work putting this together.
Thanks so much Chris for including my site here. But I wish you could have snapped a screenshot of my updated site.
Hi Chris!
Thanks for featuring our website among such talented designers.
Cheers!!
Really, nice inspiration! Thanks :)
Also this one would fit nicely
http://www.mykita.com
maybe http:///www.dabutag.de would be fit nicely too
this is a great list…
want to bookmark this post for my collection
i love the simple website :-)
I could spend hours looking at all those sites but if I had to pick one as a fav its squareface
Excellent, nice inspiration! Thanks
Might I also suggest my site in the minimal category?
http://www.commadelimited.com/
Many of these sites are from designers. Few good designers miss the point of subtly and elegance. The trick is getting clients, especially businesses, to catch that vision. They often want to add so much content, they miss that saying less is often saying more.
Great list.
Rightly said, “There is great beauty in simplicity.”
nice, inspiring roundup
I can’t wait to see 1000 something something something. I just love bookmarking lists, they’re so listy
nice!
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.
did u have theme for villa management..?
with your permission I would like to add http://harkopen.com – Open source hardware community to this awesome list
very unbelievable。。。 I like most of them。。 collection。。。 THX
Stunning collection! Well done!
It’s a fav! ;)
Great list of minimalistic templates! I wrote a blog post about your list of web sites. And I also chose a minimalistic theme to my blog. People interested in minimalism in web design will find a link to a whole galley containing only minimalistic web design. Please make a visit at my blog for further reading.
Sometimes Minimal is just boring, not accessible, trying-too-hard-to-be-cool,too white and just really overrated. A good mix of web 2.0 and minimal is the way to go, but a full on web2 or minmal site is just a no go.
the kyle steed website just uses the thematic framework theme, what’s so great about that?
WOW !!!!
Excellent, nice inspiration! Thanks
Thanks so much for the inclusion of Pixelhaven on this list. Amongst very good company.
Great showcase. I think sometimes less really does say more!
Great collection of designs.
Thank you for sharing your Valuable information.
As I am also working for web design this information will help me increase my knowledge.
Sad, that my site not get in list :)
Here is another one – http://www.brandbox.lv/
I love minimalist designs! Skinny Ships is really cool–mainly black and white with just a nice pop of bright color. Thanks!
A good collection. I would say that just use the one that you need, I think the author not really want you to use everything here, we all know that we have our own style, we use different tools to design those tools we are comfortable using. This is just a variety of tools that maybe one of these are your must-have-tools
A good collection. I would say that just use the one that you need, I think the author not really want you to use everything here, we all know that we have our own style, we use different tools to design those tools we are comfortable using. This is just a variety of tools that maybe one of these are your must-have-tools.