What comes to your mind  when you think of  the color white? White is the most simple, elegant and peaceful color. Use of white color is seen in many blogs, online portfolios, e-commerce and many more sites. White is used for font color, background color, link, images and many more. Although, if you might think white color website is not that appealing to readers, you would be surprised. Some of the best designed websites on the web are using white as dominate color. In this post you will find inspiration and tips on using white color on your websites.

Minimal Beautiful Sites

Simple minimal websites are delightful to view. When you are creating a white background color it keeps the basic, clean and uncluttered. The beauty will reveal itself.  Just to name drop some of the big company and website as flickr, iStockphoto, Makeuseof, Apple uses white as background color. Most of the following sites are minimal but yet they show how using white it can bring out the potential of the content and the website itself.

Loveleft

Greece is For Lovers

Pasaii Design Studio

CSS Globe

Jason Reynolds

Buffalo-Web Design & E-commerce

Jeff  Doe

Rustin Jessen

Sushi & Robots

Qindex Web Design Magazine

Using Illustration with White

Handwritten design, illustration, cartoon characters  and grunge is the new web trend. Web and graphic designers presents their creativity using through this illustration and artwork. Here is a simple example to brag about the #FFFFFF :When a painter starts with a drawing  the canvas is white or  an Illustrator drawing a character they start with a blank white paper. The end result comes out beautiful. The white color is root of all the beautiful things that lays underneath.  The following websites show using white creatively with illustration and drawing to bring out the artistic and creative side of the white.

Cologne Bonn Airport

Kallwejt

Fell Swoop

Look Designs

Aqworks

Numan Cebi

Noemie-Chevaux

Iitchy Pixel

Khairudin Lee

Rednoseday

Log

Squarefactor

Things That Are Brown

Using White to Brighten up Other Colors

You would think simple plain web sites are exciting like the colorful websites and you would be wrong. Keep in mind that white can make any other light and bright color bring out its depth, intensity and richness. Color such as red, blue, light green , pink and  any other light color will look focused and pleasant. Therefore, if you are planning to mix up other color in links, menu, buttons use the color wisely, rather then looking like a mess. Here are some website that makes white and other colors work together and makes it sexy.

I am Dan

Zurb

Noded

Super Nature Design

Michael Paul Young

Devia

Tim Jarvis- A Base Reference

Hello Lucky

Final Words

Just to recap here are some simple tips creating a website with white:

1. Use the light and bright color for the links .
2. Try to keep it as much as minimal as you can.
3. Make the content easy to follow
4. Do  not clutter with ads.  If you decide to include ads do not use a different background color.
5. Do not use small font size.
6. Get Creative!

Is there any tips you would like to share?