Big and Bold – one of the growing means nowadays to catch the viewers’ attention. Bold colored websites are fast becoming a trend because of its ability to catch the attention of the readers due to their size and boldness. That is why websites that adapt bold texts using catchy taglines have become more and more prevalent.
How do designers achieve this? In the present trends, if you want to make a blindingly unforgettable statement, you need a few things:
A saturated color scheme which is bright enough to catch one’s interest without blinding him or her
An awesome and probably mind-blowing image (a photograph or a graphic illustration)
A uniquely remarkable tagline.
Those, however, are not easily achieved. To attain a beautiful, bold color design, you need to think it through. You also need some design skills and a great deal of guts.
Because there is no single general rule in choosing colors for your design, I will just lend you some inspiration! This is to help you exercise your creative muscles because colors, as discussed in a lot of design blogs, are important to web design.
So, to cut the chase, I present you the examples of beautifully done bold color scheming designs. I hope that it will somehow shed us some inspiration on how to use these colors effectively.
Abby Putinski
Adopt a Yeti
andCulture
Artem and Julia Wedding
BarCamp Omaha
Caramel Budgie
Collision Labs
Connect Mania
Dangers of Fracking
Dear Mum
Denise Chandler
do a backflip
Dropify
Verde
Every Last Drop
Flow Media
Gloo Sticker Albums
Gum
Hy
jorgeATGU
Kick My Habits
Lets Yep!
Netlife
Nineswiss
Pixilate
Rainbow Nursery
Reunite a River
Richard Photo Lab
Sailthru 2012 Annual Report
Sánchez Romero Carvajal
Somos la pera limonera
Squarespace
Studio MPLS
Tapped
The Basement
The Design Files Open House
Think Big
Tornobambino
TriplAgent
WDG
Will Fernandes
Xylem Digital
YCN Studio
Conclusion
Bold and big, these websites are genuine examples of designs that focus on the subtle and little things: colors, fonts and placement. These little things result into drastic effects in a design. Yes, this is a dangerous move for a designer. It might even result into the viewer being too shocked because of the bold colors, but the designers took the risk and look what they have gotten!