20 Powerful High Contrast Black & White Web Designs

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Designing a website using just black and white provides the highest contrast possible between text and background elements. Combined with black and white photography, this produces powerful designs that grab the attention of the viewer and draws them in with their seductive qualities. In today’s showcase I round up 20 beautiful examples of monochromatic website designs that master the use of black and white in their interfaces.

CREATIVEPARK

CREATIVEPARK

Laurent Perez Del Mar

Laurent Perez Del Mar

Alexander Engzell

Alexander Engzell

HOCHBURG

HOCHBURG

Ronin161

Ronin161

Finely

Finely

Melanie Daveid

Melanie Daveid

We Are Cirro

We Are Cirro

Tobias van Schneider

Tobias van Schneider

Marko Prljić

Marko Prljić

Ólafur Arnalds

Ólafur Arnalds

Lift Interactive

Lift Interactive

Mammoth Media

Mammoth Media

Hayden Dawkins

Hayden Dawkins

The Ordinary

The Ordinary

Island

Island

Hunt & Co.

Hunt & Co.

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Iggy is a designer who loves experimenting with new web design techniques, collating creative website designs, and writing about the latest design trends, inspiration, design freebies, and more. You can follow him on Twitter

40 thoughts on “20 Powerful High Contrast Black & White Web Designs”

  1. Hello

    black and white contrast is nice but I think you can create contrast by other colors too , such as blue and red for example to make a website more cheerful.

    Thanks

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  2. Loved the colors and concepts. This type of themes worth more than colorful themes because they look much attractive than colored ones.

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  3. I really like the way you showcase a number of different websites and their designs on your blog regularly.
    The designs of websites in this list are amazing!

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  4. I’m loving this return to the ‘back to basics’ attitude towards design. For too long we’ve had too many colors, shapes and way too much noisy content. Black and white designs in the main look very contemporary and creative. Loving the Tobias van Schneider site…

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  5. Combined with black and white photography, this produces powerful designs that grab the attention of the viewer and draws them in with their seductive qualities.

    So True boss.

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  6. At risk of sounding like a total nob, I think that black and white has such elegance and modernism to it. I don’t know, I’m pretty minimalistic myself but I feel like you can do no wrong with plain ol’ B&W

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  7. Thanks for the roundup! What really captured my attention was the first two examples. I love that the composer website made use of a well-chosen grayscale background image to immediately tell you what the site is about. The Centralway “Numbrs” was a head-scratcher: it didn’t look like a banking app to me. They probably went to modern / minimalist with this one.

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  8. Wow these are very impressive and eye-catching web designs and no doubt contrast of white and black always gives a very classy results.

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  9. Really i doesn’t make color conflict, such design make nice looks of websites. very realistic and well experienced……

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  10. When did it become a rule that all creative agencies have to use the line “WE ARE ___________” as the banner on their websites? As soon as I see that line I always assume they aren’t really that creative after all.

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  11. Very inspiring and attractive list of websites.. Black and white colors make for each other because black and white color is attractive look to anything..

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  12. Thats indeed a very rare set of design inspiration.

    While doing a redesign for my portfolio(https://www.terminalalterego.com) I too had something of these sort in mind. The power of black and white and the contrast it creates for the content.

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  13. I love these examples, what a great way to inspire people to do more black and white designs. I really love these!

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