White Part 3
3rd edition — by Patrick McNeil — Jan. 14, 2008
The Design Element
It has been a remarkably long time since I published an update to the white section. This small set of sites manages to represent the minimal usage of color well. From scanning the thumbs it would look like a rather dull approach, but dig deeper and you will find some wonderful sites that are very easy on the eyes. More often then not the usage of white results from a need for a clean and simple design. These designs often contain quality content that doesn't necessarily need a flashy wrapper. Or, the owners of the site are not as interested in grabbing as much attention as possible with the design, and prefer to rely on quality goods to attract interest.
One such example is Blog.3rdMartini.com. This sites clean refined style relies very heavily on the usage of white. It could even perhaps be considered a minimal design. What's interesting to me is that the white and simple design results in less need for extreme solutions to things like hierarchy. The hierarchy of the page is much easier to establish when there are less visually dominant elements. Thus smaller, less bold titles still manage to grab our attention.
Sample Usage
Links
Genopal (Color pallet creation software)
COLOURlovers (Excellent color pallet collections)
Kuler - pallet builder from Adobe /
ColorBlender.com (The
best tool I have found for easily creating beautiful color pallets)
Great color browsing resource (Named colors, by hue, etc)
Color
Scheme Generator
Color
Blender (On MeyerWeb)
Color In Motion
Color Schemer Online v2
Color Schemer Gallery
Color Symbolism
