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70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs
On 30, Dec 2009 | No Comments | In Blog, Inspirations | By grapikom
Hello there! It’s time for little inspiration and this time I wanted to showcase something different. You may know that very popular designer slogan – “More is Less”, and yes it’s often so true – unexperienced people tend to overcrowd, use too much colors in their designs. I just love these designs – they are very light, clean and usually uses only monochrome color scheme and just one or two bright colors for links or headers.
You may also notice for such designs it’s more about grid, harmonic distribution through whole page and very silent, elegant accents. It’s not about many colorful photos,images or icons, crazy backgrounds or experimentation. Almost all of those designs are very clean, slightly increasing web page loading time, sometimes it’s crucial to have as light designs as possible, for example reddit, digg, stumbleupon social networks also consist of very few images and where is possible just color and CSS is used.
1. Brilliancy
One of the best clean, light and elegant websites I came across in this research. Really brilliant!
2. OffSet Media
3. PixelBot
4. Pixel Umbrella
5. Kristi Hines
Very clean, yet professional web design.
6 .Made By On
7. Hot Meteor
Hot Meteor specializes in web, print, and branding. Their site looks really professional and clean, good design is one of the best ways how to attract new clients.
8. Mark Boulton Design
Excellent accents leading your eye through whole page in the way author wants it. Follow me to this through – magazine photo + new(s) design is the first point which grabs attention, author explains there what is this site and company about – that first attention grabber is very important. Only then you look at his logo and read further – work, our clients, news, contact sections.
9. BKWLD
10. Concentric-Studio
11. Vitor Lourenco
Visit his homepage – starting from index page you’ll get amazed how effectively Vitor Lourenco uses white space.
12. Forget Foo
13. GetFinch
14. ShaunInMan
15. Arty Papers
Beautiful website using just few very subtle, monochrome colors and only pink color in logo is used to highlight most important links.
16. Vesess
17. SimpleBits
18. DesignWorkPlan
19. MadeBySofa
20. 80/20 Studio
21. Clear Left
22. Aentan
On this site so much is going on – I mean so many sections and categories, but still it looks pretty clean.
23. Huge Inc
24. Rustin Jessen
25. Daniel Oliver
26. Subtraction
27. Information Architects
28. The Man In The Sea
29. Built By Buffalo
30. Corporate Risk Watch
Site looks really professional and clean aligned in left side of the screen, also try their navigation – really unique approach!
31. Pixel Haven
32. Design Hotels
33. Jon Tangerine
34. Winnie Lim
35. Wonderful Union
36. Apple
Obvious, but I could not resist myself and not to include Apple minimalist ethalon page, though everyone knows about it already I am sure.
37. Darren Hoyt
38. Ronnie San
39. Shift PX
40. 5ThirtyOne
41. Andy Rutledge
42. Anthony James Bruno
43. Astheria
44. Big Kid
45. Cade Martin Photography
46. David Airey
47. Eight Face
48. Feed A Fever
49. Fell Swoop
50. Hello Stefan
51. Jamie Gregory
52. LindenTibbets
53. Matt Bango
54. Martin Hipp
55. Site Inspire
56. Welcome To Human Resources
57. z8
Click on Portfolio and Contact buttons, you’ll see nice Javascript animation going on there.
58. Kyle Steed
59. Joni Korpi
60. The Portfolio of David Arias
61. El Candor
62. I Love Typography
63. The NetSetter
64. Jeff Doe Design
65. Kyle Standing
66. GB Studio
67. Poccuo
68. Zurb
69. 39/18 Company
70. F5 Fest
72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration
On 30, Dec 2009 | One Comment | In Blog, Inspirations | By grapikom
If we are starting to go crazy in typography style, then let’s continue with typographic and smart logo designs, shall we? Here you’ll find 72 beautiful logos created by talented designers. This showcase just proves the point how much can one/two words, icons tell using correctly white, negative, positive spacing, colors, accents creating interesting associations.
Explore and get creative as I did!
1. Killed Productions
Who killed letter i?
2. Wrong / Right
Really smart logo!
3. TypeFACE
Typeface: word-play: face from the type and letter T.
4. Galeria 291
Just loving this logo, great stylization!
5. Twins
Very popular logo already, but thought I still share it in typography section.
Author’s comment: “Logo was made for a bold creative team consisting of two people. Two people being brothers …and fortunately born on the same day. TWINS was a suitable name for the two. To reflect the essence of the duo, a bold typeface was created to reflect the boldness of their approaches. The number 2 was integrated to show the creativeness of their ideas.”
6. TicToc Clocks
Just smart logo, which ring the bell!
7. Gizzy bear
Author’s comment: “Gizzy bear is how a little kid might say grizzly bear. Mark is a lower case g bear and paw.”
Just genious!
8. Artists United
Simple, artistic and very clever – all in one place!
9. Sticky
Very good logo – yes, sticky!
10. Snap
Oh, snap – logo with very clear message.
11. Shift
12. Time watch
Very obvious concept – great idea!
13. Upside down productions
Each letter form is either another letter or itself flipped upside down… (umop episdn)
14. M1llion
15. Fuel Fitness
Logo designed for a fitness trainer. Looks like a shoe lice presented in good way.
16. Logotomy version2
17. Microgreen
Author’s comment: “G — microscope + green = microgreen”.
18. Review Code
Author’s comment: “Concept for a consulting company”. Creative and reads very well too!
19. Looks of love
Logo for woman underwear store – I think very appropriate and elegant logo!
20. Brand
21. Height
Smart way to display Height and letter H.
22. Motion
Creative dynamic logo looking like some kind of mechanism.
23. Crown
Simple, clean yet strong mark that could be used for almost all business.
24. Precision Networking
Precision in logotype, stylized E letters and beautiful outcome!
25. HALF
Did you know how half of letters can be displayed and separated just by stylized straight, invisible line? Real beauty.
26. Coffee Cup
27. Twenty-four Seven
28. TalkMore
Already classic and famous logotype with smart little accents.
29. Invizio
30. HIGHROAD
How high? Smart perspective logo with depth.
31. UP
Progressive logo, I really like it!
32. EXiT
Find exit -subtle, smart accent in letter i dot, excellent logo!
33. Nosey
Type Nosey and see human face at the same time! Very inspiring!
34. FLAT LAND
Midwest core-clothing company – typography with obvious meaning.
35. Trust
Heavenly trust, the letters a mirrored sort of an ambigram.
36. Trust v2
Exactly opposite logo from same artist with very interesting typographic play in devil’s face.
37. ABC
Very good stylization in letters with just typography.
38. Winery
Surprisingly easy to read and eye-catching logotype!
39. Ty wood
Author’s comment: “Proposal for a photographer specialized in wedding photography”. Many circles are used in design, again surprisingly easy to read showing designer’s professionalism.
40. Kadoo
One letter stylization and professional font with good spacing can really make difference.
41. Rinke
Interesting 3D logo, though I don’t understand why letter K is accented.
42. I look Like You
Loving and sharing, simple and smart logo.
43. Moodboard
Modern, tasty logo and letter M and B uniting done in good way, a lot of circles and roundups!
44. Pepperland
How many peppers you see in this logo?
45. Jive Software
Really eye-catching!
46. Cropd
A little bit cropped logotype for photo editing and sharing web site.
47. Beeq
Interesting typography, reads the same when rotated.
48. KNIFE
Very sharp logotype!
49. Forty 7 Studios
Interesting logo, where 4 and 7 read nicely, but if you look closer you’ll also note “S” in negative space! Really smart!
50. Love Logo Designs
Do you see all the letters? Smart play with positive, negative spaces.
51. Jump
Do you see jumping guy in letter J?
52. KnockOut Design
3 letters(KOD) demonstrated in logo again using positive, negative spaces.
53. BEND
This logo really invite to take a sit!
54. GSK Models
55. FuturEarth
Smart two letter connection!
56. ZIP
You really should have seen this one, but still thought to include!
57. Juicy
Logo for club night.
58. Kooture
Author’s comment: “This is being developed for a company in the fashion clothing industry. Client wants the new logotype for Kooture to be fresh, youthful, quirky and assured chic.”
59. Spirit
Stylish and clear logotype!
60. LogoReview
61. Michael Jin Photography
62. HATERS
63. 24/7 Pizza
64. Smokin Brands
65. KnowIT
Simple but catchy!
66. 365 Design
Look carefully at this one!
67. Ripple
68. SEOlution.it
Author’s comment: “Seolution.it is a new brand for a seo company. The idea of this brand/logo is combination of SEO+solution. For this reason “e” + “o” in the logo are combined to form a unique letter.”
69. GreatWorx
Logo for a software and systems consultancy.
70. Parnell Dickinson
Author’s comment: “Logo for partner brokers in the livestock business. They wanted a “not so western” look and more conservative and corporate feel.”
71. Five Sharp
72. Network Expertise
