Jan 11th

20 Examples of using the Color Red in Web Design

Matthew Heidenreich in Inspiration with 7 comments

Using the color red is not always the most common choice for a designers palette when designing a website. While many stray away from its use by sticking to the more popular greens, and blues, here is a showcase of 20 websites that use red in their design.

Web Designer Depot

Coal March Productions

Vagrant Radio

Red Relevant

RedMillion – Creative Media

Red Nose Day

Opera Mini

Nitro Circus

Maurivan Luiz

Logo Heros

Less Code

Jey Designs

GuerraCreativa

DesignMySpace

Cork’d

Conectivia

Chris Wallace’s Blog

Boxing for fitness

Bestweb

Acko

Written by Matthew Heidenreich

Matthew Heidenreich is a freelance designer from St. Louis, Missouri. He enjoys teaching others how to create interface and web design tutorials. Find his work on his site, DeviseFunction. You can follow him on Twitter @Spicypepper.

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SnarphBlat February 23rd, 2010 at 10:36 am

I think red is such a great color for design! Hence my red background on twitter. I think it should be used more, I sometimes feel that blue/greens are getting used so much that things start to look the same. Spicing it up, adding warmer colors, are a lot more inviting and show passion. Great post, thanks!

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Maxime February 23rd, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Even if I prefer orange, I like the red color for design too! Good post and good websites examples. My favourite of your list are : Coal March Productions, Nitro Circus, and Logo Heroes (Just judging the color not the entire website). I really love the design and the mix with the black color in RedMillion – Creative Media. Warm colors rule!!

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Danny Foo February 23rd, 2010 at 9:17 pm

Nice! And I noticed most of them don’t use the hot sexy red. Either more pastel or orange-ish.

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- Matthew Heidenreich February 23rd, 2010 at 11:39 pm
  
  Exactly. The problem with red is if you don’t use it correctly, you will end up with terrible results and it will look like an amateur made it. Like you said, staying about from the “hot sexy reds” is definitely a key element in making a great design with red.
Kelly Justin May 4th, 2010 at 10:14 am

wow..nice collection of designs..red color looks really hot

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XTiDesign November 3rd, 2010 at 7:23 am

Hey that’s very inspiring, cheers.

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Jay May 4th, 2011 at 3:46 pm

Most of your examples are not really a true red. They are brown, orange, and warmer variants of red. That in and of itself talks about the starkness of true reds, and how difficult they are to tastefully incorporate into a design.

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