Color of the Web: Purple

Color of the Web: Purple

Today we start a series of posts called color of the web in which we will feature a different color every week along with a lot of web design inspiration. Starting out with the color purple, here you will see some purple color paletts and 20 great purple websites.

Purple is not close to being one of the most used colors of the web, that’s the reason why purple websites get an extra attention when they come around. We automatically recognize that as being something different, and that’s what a lot of designers seek when they use the color purple, in order stand out from the crowed as everyone else is stuck on the basic colors.

In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility which makes a purple website very elegant if well designed.

Here you can see some color pallets that work well having purple as the main colors:

Color Palettes Provided by Color Combos

6600CC FFCC00 000000 CC0000

Color Scheme with #6600CC #FFCC00 #000000 #CC0000

443266 C3C3E5 F1F0FF 8C489F

Color Scheme with #443266 #C3C3E5 #F1F0FF #8C489F

663399 FFFF66 009966

Color Scheme with #663399 #FFFF66 #009966

421C52 732C7B 9C8AA5 BDAEC6 FFFFFF

Color Scheme with #421C52 #732C7B #9C8AA5 #BDAEC6 #FFFFFF

692DAC 9D538E 34ACAF

Color Scheme with #692DAC #9D538E #34ACAF

CC0000 FF6600 660099 000000

Color Scheme with #CC0000 #FF6600 #660099 #000000

Here you can see our showcase of purple web designs:

1. Feels

2. Good Bytes

3. Dale Harris

4. Mariusz Ciesla

5. Purple Raincloud

6. Macalicious

7. Alex Prado

8. Marcelo Tebet

9. Purple Sue

10. Corporate Image

My Go Locker

12. HRC Studio

13. Henry Hoffman

14. Many Velvet Elephants

15. Tanq

16. Nocturn

17. The Girlie Girl Army

18 Web Dever

19 Avant Grape

20. Forte

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Hello there! My name is Paulo Canabarro, I'm a graphic design student, blogger and freelancer. I'm a writer for abduzeedo.com and I have passion for cool and well done design. To find out more about me and my work, FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER

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10 Comments

  1. Mariusz

    November 4th, 2009 at 04:50 am

    Woo, my site is featured! :) Thanks!

  2. Adrian A.

    November 4th, 2009 at 06:47 am

    Great article. I’m even more pleased with my recent change of my website after reading this.

  3. Steve

    November 4th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    Awesome – I love purple. Another super-duper-purple-heavy site:
    http://www.sugarplumstudio.com

  4. Tomas

    November 4th, 2009 at 01:57 pm

    Inspiring roundup, I love purple more than before, thanks Paulo.

  5. Carson Shold

    November 4th, 2009 at 02:43 pm

    Ah I was just writing a post for the same thing! You found some great ones!

  6. Roberto

    November 4th, 2009 at 05:54 pm

    Great color. Love it.

  7. Lauren

    November 7th, 2009 at 03:50 am

    Nice roundup,thanks for sharing.

  8. Premium Theme Club

    November 7th, 2009 at 07:27 am

    I like purple, amazing color Thanks for sharing

  9. denbagus

    November 15th, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    nice web purple resources

  10. PVC stolarija Elatio

    January 13th, 2010 at 07:42 am

    Great examples, thx :-)

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