35 Marvelously Minimal Websites

by on 5th August 2009 with 26 Comments

Here’s to the design minimalists. Here’s to focusing on functionality, simplicity and basic design principles. Kick the tires all you want on these sites today – you’re still going to love using them tomorrow.

This is our roundup of 35 stunningly simple, marvelously minimal web designs. Enjoy!

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The Old Fashioned

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Chris Glass

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File Magazine

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Lonely Tweet

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Designing The News

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Daring Fireball

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I Love Typography

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Just Watch The Sky

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Cynosura

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Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin

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GTF

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Jonann Dizon

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Chama, Inc

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Upstruct

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Andy Chung

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Independent Studios

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Jon Tan

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NED

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Astheria

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Brand New

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Reagan Ray

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80/20 Studio

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Subtraction

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Anberlin

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Made By Squad

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Typographica

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Andrew Penketh

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Design Work Plan

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Strange Beautiful

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Vitor Lourenco

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Wilson Miner

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A Working Library

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Asile One

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Fatuus

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Trent Walton

Have some favorite minimal sites you don’t see on the list? Comment and let us know about them.

Comments & Discussion

26 Comments

  • Claudio Rimann

    some very good examples i never heard of before, thanks for the post!

  • http://www.yummygum.nl leon

    Although i have already seen most of them in css galeries, still a great list for inspiration

  • http://netzwahn.net Torsten

    Great list with some unseen designs for inspiration.
    Thanks for your work

  • Daniel

    Nice collection. There are quite a few more minimal sites over at siteInspire too…

    http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/minimal

  • http://www.evasion.cc/blog/ evasion

    If you’re looking for some great websites design, please take a look at my flickr webdesign inspiration set :

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/evasion/sets/72157613205486839/

    Just reached 1200 sites, and still growing ! All pages are tagged for better search…

    Cheers,

  • http://trentwalton.com Trent Walton

    site inspire is great!

    evasion: really nice set

  • http://www.biberhapiburada.net Diyet

    Thanks for sharing this info

  • http://www.siteweb-creation.com Css web design

    Thank you for the share

  • Graphic Design

    Great share! I really like the Ned one. There’s another – Minimal Photoshop actions site

  • http://myspace.com/7xdown Abe

    There is something so relaxing about minimalist sites. This modern world is so crazy & out of control that clean simple design lets our spirit stop and take a deep breath.
    By the way, don’t look to my site for such… images, maybe music though.

  • http://www.code-pal.com Sumeet Chawla

    I have always loved minimalist sites…! They just have a different x-factor in them :P

  • http://kpobuddy.wordpress.com M Patel
  • http://daus.trala.la Daus

    Mine! Mine! :)

  • http://www.rewardsuper.com.au Wolf Schumacher

    See my tweet from today: @wschumac I love minimalist websites. Look at 35 great sites here: http://tinyurl.com/m36ydw

  • http://www.pvp-one.com pornolar

    good working

  • http://www.newliberalmedia.com/ Justin

    With all due respect, these selections have been used and re-used on a thousand different minimalist web design lists. If you have been following design at all – and I mean even slightly – you probably have seen these sites too many times already – not to say they aren’t great sites – they certainly are. But if I see “subtraction” in one more list I’m going to go crazy with boredom. No offense, but I would have thought a gallery of this stature would have more to choose from than these sites offered in this particular list.

  • http://www.fluid-studio.net Jim

    Not to be a kill joy but “Subtraction” is using a free wordpress template. There are lots of sites that look exactly the same.

  • http://rekiem-art.fr ReKieM

    Very nice list

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    thanks very nice

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  • http://www.aker.fr Aker

    Great list, you should add some more like minimalissimo for example.. Thanks for sharing that list :)

  • http://www.cheapleafletprinters.com Cheap Printing

    some nice sites there, i really think they are coming back in fashion these days, i have seen loads of them around whilst browsing.

  • http://www.yuriyz.com Yuriy Z.

    Awesome! Please consider my portfolio/blog too! http://yuriyz.com/blog

  • Manu

    Great work. Very nice collection. Can you consider my site? http://www.niuenso.com

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