Colour in Web Design – Orange

Posted on 23 March 2011 | 9 Comments

Orange feels like an appropriate colour to kick off our Colour in Web Design series. It’s a vibrant colour which conveys excitement, movement and enthusiasm – which are of course all suitable words to describe this blog! Enough of my wishful thinking…

Typically, orange is used to communicate a friendly and inviting feel and is often used in designs that want to appear fun, flamboyant and energetic. If you want to create a calming effect, it is best to stay well away from this colour; its complementary colour, blue, would be a far better choice to achieve that outcome.

I’ve compiled a collection of beautiful websites that have utilised the colour orange to fantastic effect. Here’s the best of what I found…

Fajne Chlopaki

So1o

Jessica Hische

Grip Limited

Happycom

Dunnellon

Glue

Bhoff

These Are Things

Mail Chimp

Panelfly

TedX Toronto

Joshua Giblette

The Conan Blimp

Ngen Works

Kyle Kramer

The Hickensian

Collision

Mealeo

Karlsruhe Blog

Tags: Colour in Web Design, Inspiration

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Stephen Greig

Hi! I’m Stephen Greig, an enthusiastic web developer and graphic designer who enjoys experimenting and perfecting to produce the highest quality output. My aim is to learn and to share! Want to know more? Follow me on Twitter.

9 Comments

Daryl

March 23, 2011 | 7:20 pm

Nice article, some good inspiration!

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- Stephen Greig
  
  March 23, 2011 | 9:38 pm
  
  Thanks! Any faves?
  Mine have to be Mail Chimp, These Are things, Glue and So1o. Hard to pick as they’re all really nice!
  
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  - Daryl
    
    March 23, 2011 | 11:51 pm
    
    To be honest mate they’re all amazing! But id have to say mail Chimp or Fajne Chlopaki.
    
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Alex Leeson-Brown

March 24, 2011 | 9:41 am

Nice collection mate

This is one of my favourites personally: http://getconcentrating.com/

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- Stephen Greig
  
  March 24, 2011 | 6:37 pm
  
  Ahhhh yes that’s very nice mate.
  
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Tom

March 24, 2011 | 11:18 am

I love orange in web design. As you can probably tell from my previous ventures.

These provide great inspiration for my next site, really love Ngen and Glue =D

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