30 Awesome Dark Web Designs

Posted April 10th, 2012 / By Daniel Thornton in Inspiration

We know the conventional wisdom says that black text on a white background provides the most user-friendly experience. There’s plenty of whitespace to guide the eye, and the text is easy to read. It’s harder to get the same feeling with black designs: even with equivalent spacing, things feel more claustrophobic, and for long text in particular it can be tiresome to read. Here are thirty designs that we think pulled off the challenge, for the next time you’ve got to figure out how to make a dark design work well.

Dragon Interactive

Red Million

Peter Richter

Element Gallery

Arrival Design

Pound And Grain

Merix Studio

Pixelzero Graphics Inc.

Light-O-Matic

Jet Cooper

Deluxe Digital Media

Leaflet

Jesse Dodds

Abstraktion

Ivan Cotado

Natalie Sklobovskaya

Kisko Labs

BootB

Dyson

Two24 Studios

Labubulle Creative Studio

Worry Free Labs

Riff Raff Web Design

Something Interesting

Mutant Labs

Designzillas

Fixie Consulting

Ads by Carbon

Phunk’n Creative

Notch Studio

Have you struggled and eventually succeeded with dark web design before? Tell us about your tips in the comments, whether it’s a certain degree of contrast you favor or how the size of text on a dark page should differ from a white page.

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