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Red is a vibrant hue that color theorists suggest represents love, anger and in some cultures, happiness, but how is it used in web design? The color red in its many variants seems to be a popular choice with web designers.
In today’s showcase, we take a look at 35 great international examples of red usage in web design. See how this color is used in each design and more interestingly which other colors it is paired with to create striking color schemes.
Sourisse Aux Partners
This is a simple red website design with a minimalist design and a large textured image on the homepage.
Student Dev Quest
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Airnauts
This is a creative one-page website which has a unique layout and an angled, geometry photo overlay which adds dynamism to the design. It uses bright red colors to catch your attention.
Canon EOS-M / Campaign Microsite
This is the design of the Canon EOS-M campaign. It uses red as an accent color.
Hyperakt
Hyperakt is a social impact design agency and this is their presentation website. It makes use of bold colors paired with white and fullscreen images and videos.
House
You can quickly get your visitors attention by showcasing a big red message. This is a great example which includes a big sales message and a bright eye-catching background color.
Brand Aid
Brand Aid is a creative agency focused on creating unique promotional products for companies. Their presentation website uses a bright red-orange color as an accent.
This bold design will definitely get your attention with the help of the colored background and the big heading.
Fivefootsix
This is a beautiful site where the web designer used a full-screen typography animation to capture the visitor’s attention.
Web Design Field Manual
This website offers a curated resource for web creators. It combines illustrations with dark, red colors and beautiful transitions.
CodeButton
Codebutton.com provides free tools for web developers to speed up the process of performing mundane web development tasks.
Playtika
Playtika captivates audiences with beautifully produced, highly immersive social games.
KitKat
This is the website of the popular KitKat. As the product’s branding, this website is all red.
Calcul’it
Calcul’it is a fun game where you must find the various operations of a calculation. This is their presentation website which matches the branding of the app.
Picksum Ipsum
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Bear On Unicycle
This is the presentation website for a design studio which specializes in web design and developing websites, and also graphic design and branding.
Boy-Coy
Boy-Coy is a creative design studio where perfect websites, mobile apps & games come to life. Their website design perfectly combines illustrations with bold, red colors.
Endgame
This company offers endpoint protection built to stop advanced attacks before damage and loss occurs. Their website is not entirely red, but has plenty of red-orange accents in it.
The CP Diary
The CP Diary is a blog by someone with Cerebral Palsy, covering Health and Wellbeing, Diet and Nutrition, Alternative Therapies, Exercise and more. It has a dark, burgundy background and pink accents.
HEIKOPAIKO
This is a gorgeous responsive one page portfolio for German designer Heiko Brömmelstrote. It has a deep, red background we love.
Syropia
Syropia is a one-man design & development studio, focused on crafting elegant web experiences. They use large, red graphic elements all over their website.
AntMoves
AntMoves is a creative digital agency with experience in a broad variety of digital technologies. They have a cool branding design and the website is all red!
Socialist
Socialist is the new app for iOS 7 that helps you create, collaborate and share lists all in one place. They use an icon-patterned background with deep red color for contrast.
Paul Woods
This is the portfolio website of designer and illustrator Paul Woods. It has a bright red background and lots of funny illustrations.
Les Bonbecs
This is a small company’s website with a girly/feminine design. It uses red and pink colors all over the website, but without overdoing it.
Hatha Ciudad Onlus
This is a presentation website for cultural events regarding yoga, sport, cinema, music and more. It has a flat red design all over the website.
Poster Ninjas
Poster NInja prints posters, banners, foamcore, flyers and postcards.
The Brave Man
This is the presentation website of Florian Wacker, a front-end developer with a passion for design and writing from Frankfurt, Germany.
Vodatext
Vodatext is leading SMS Marketing Company in Dubai that offers powerful mobile marketing solutions. They use red backgrounds on their site and contrasting buttons with blue and green colors.
coucou
This is an online shop for selling designer bags. It uses red just as an accent color, the rest of the website is pretty simple, apart from some unique illustrations.
Intro
We love the effects and animations of this website’s background. Did we mention it’s very red?
Pavel Huza
This is the portfolio of Pavel Huza – designer and developer specialized in designing web and mobile interfaces.
MeandMyAAA
This is another red portfolio website, this time for an art director and designer, passionate about everything web.
Točka
This is a simple red presentation website design for a studio which specializes in creating graphic designs and smart user experiences.
New Hampshire Distributors
This is the presentation website of a beverage company. It combines dark, red colors with grungy textures and image overlays.
wonderful post & work. good examples, while some of these are fabulous.
Red colored templates and themes really do stand out so well. I have thought about changing our website to red actually.
Really wonderful work.Love it.
Great collection. you could also post near valentine.
I see a lot of people stay away from bold colors such as red. I disagree with that! Bold colors can give a website the uniqueness and eye catching attention is is need to stand out.
Thanks for this post,
Roni from cleverwebsites.ca
Thank you for this post with wonderful designs. I can get a lot of ideas
Excellent review . Congratulations
Very nice ;)
Well that saved me lots of time! I was looking for good sites designed with mostly red. Thanks!
Glad I can help Michael. :D
thank you for this post
My pleasure Joe!
Red is one of my favorite color and all of them red into their theme color.So nice.
Thanks for the comment. :D
Indeed such a great collection of sites..wonderful design.
Thank you John, Really glad you liked them.
Saber usar cores como vermelho para sites assim não é pra qualquer designer.
Great compilation Chris.
Few thoughts that came to my mind. Sites that are using dark red or red and black color palette looks better than sites with bright red and white color palette. For example Web Development Group and Paul Woods are both very disturbing to my eyes. I can barely look at their thumbnails here and cannot bring my self to open those sites to view them. These sites are so disturbing. I am not sure if it’s just me or this is the case with everyone. Why they used such a bright color?
I guess the brightness isn’t to everyones taste. I think it’s just one of those things! :)
Some of them are so simple and some are unique and some are a combination.. love all of these collections. It made me inspire to have do My best and learn more about web designing.
Thats awesome, so glad it’s inspired you Renzo. :)
I definitely got that wow factor with these designs, the boldness is great, I usually always add it as an accent color, but these designs had some brave designers.
Thanks for the share!
Definately a brave colour to go with!
Thanks for the amazing collection! Honestly, some examples are not that good, but, some of these are mind blowing. I would like to say one more thing here. Red is my favorite color! Hope you’ll share more examples like these soon with us.
Well I’m glad you liked some of them :D Thanks for the comment Emily!
My client wants a red design, but know I know that I can change his plans.
It’s only me or I do not know, but… ARGH MY EYES! :P
Themes are nice, but I would change it to calmer colors :)
I guess theres always time to find a “calm red” somewhere! Good luck!
You wished it but you did not mean it!
It ended with bloody, eye-hurting red. :D
Some of these are very striking! But it definitely takes a certain kind of company to pull off this much red. Works for a lot of design companies and food too, but not much else.
Bright colours can really be tricky! You probably wouldn’t see a red design for a calming spa. :D
Red is my favourite color.
Fantastic Anny, this is definitely a collection for you. :D
I really like it – great use of red colours .
Second one is the best also Socialist is great .
Thanks Bartek, Student Dev Quest is definitely one that stands out!
Love these designs and how each one has its own shade of red. It’s amazing how much you can do with just a color
Thrilled you like the collection, it’s crazy what colours can do. :)
Some great examples, but none of them with the use of red give me a wow factor, warmth or interest to review the sites in detail. Some I clicked back in less than a second. Colour sure does play a vital part.
I’m sorry you feel like that Chris. I Hope I can win you over when I do a selection of a different colour. :D
these are great! :D
I think so too, they’re awesome!