40 Beautiful and Colorful Blog Designs

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Bright colors can scare off a lot of web designers, especially when you use a few of them together. It takes more care and precision to create a design that uses eye-popping color well, without being overwhelming or looking amateurish. And if you’re combining contrasting colors, extra care needs to be taken to prevent your design from being jarring.

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The blog designs featured below make excellent use of bright colors. Most use multiple colors together, though a few take a more monocromatic approach. Some are set against dark backgrounds; others are set against white. And in case you don’t want to jump into an original design like these, there are a number of blog templates at the end that use similar bright color schemes.

Here are more examples of beautiful blog design we’ve previosly showcased:

Full list after jump.

Original Blog Designs

The sites below are original, one-of-a-kind designs, perfect to lend some inspiration to your own designs.

WebDesigner Wall
WebDesignerWall’s site uses a wide range of colors and a hand-drawn design. It’s artistic and fun, a perfect look for the site’s content.

Web Design Hobart
Web Design Hobart uses a bright watercolor design for its background with lime green accents, while the rest of the site’s design elements are a bit more subdued.

Brija.com
Bruja uses a more limited pallette, though the bright red and yellow are still very eye-catching.

Design Disease
Design Disease’s site uses a cyan blue and lime green, with additional shades of each color used throughout the rest of the site, and a few other bright accents.

Cult-foo
Using bright colors against a muted background color (like gray) makes the colors pop even more, as shown by Cult-foo’s website.

Danilo Fiocco
The bright colors and cartoon character lend a very informal feel to Danilo Fiocco’s site.

Eric Dies
The lime green really stands out against the gray background on Eric Dies’s site.

Designministeriet
Cyan and lime green with hot pink accents makes Designministeriet’s site feel very modern and young.

Dezine Zync
A bright background stands out more when mixed with transparent elements, as shown on Dezine Zync’s website.

Dreamling.ca
Mixing slightly muted bright colors with a white background gives Dreamling.ca’s a very feminine look.

Depthinfinity
Depthinfinity’s site combines a bright, multi-colored background with lime green and other bright accents to create a very fun and artistic site.

Ezobase
Ezobase uses a CMYK (Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black) color scheme, which looks very fresh on a website.

Joshua Giblette
Shades of a single color when set against a neutral background can have a huge visual impact, as displayed on Joshua Giblette’s website.

Nimbupani Designs
Mixing multiple bright colors can be tricky, but is executed well on the Nimbupani Designs site.

Krftd
A bright, graffiti-esque background is mixed with cyan accents within the text to really make Krftd’s site pop.

Super Girl
Super Girl is another great example of bright colors used with a white background to create a feminine look.

TruSpeaks
Combining a header with bright colors with a bright but monochromatic background makes the content on the TruSpeaks site stand out and creates a very modern and hip feeling.

Almost-Famous.TV
Combining a single bright color with a white background makes Almost-Famous.TV’s site look very pulled together while allowing the layout to look like it’s trying to break free from its grid-based design.

Entropia Blog
Mixing very bright colors both in the text and background image makes the Entropia Blog look fun and fresh.

Brian Jeremy Kupetz
A graffiti-esque painted background mixed with accents that take their color cues from the background itself make for a very pulled-together yet lively look.

Ilovecolors
Ilovecolors mixes bright colors with grunge-influenced elements to create a very unique design.

Moradito
The bright, pixelated background of Moradito really stands out when it’s combined with transparency and a few colored accents.

Hello My Name is Heather
A lime green background and brightly-colored header combined with bright accents and images within posts makes for a very cheerful design on the Hello My Name is Heather site.

Duirwaigh Studios – Message from the Muse
Duirwaigh Studio’s Message from the Muse blog mixes bright colors with a vintage-inspired design to create a background that really pops.

Veerle’s Blog
The steel-gray background of Veerle’s Blog mixed with bright orange accents and a bright header looks very original.

Inspiredology
A rainbow-colored header image combined with cyan and magenta accents makes the Inspiredology site look welcoming and original.

Celebrific
Celebrific’s bright pink and light blue color scheme really pops and makes the site’s content really stand out.

Colorful Blog Themes

If you’re unsure of designing a bright theme from scratch, turn to one of the pre-made themes below.

WP Coda
The WP Coda theme’s purple design mixed with brighter accents lends a very fresh but still professional look.

Acosmin Grungy
The Acosmin Grungy theme combines bright colors with grunge elements to give an edgy feeling.

Infinity
The Infinity theme makes great use of transparency mixed with bright colors and cartoonish illustrations.

Colourise
The Colourise theme’s dark background makes the bright colors stand out even more and lends a very masculine feel.

Notepad Chaos
Notepad Chaos’s theme combines a bright background with a limited color pallette to give a fresh and informal look.

Tribal Music Theme
The graffiti-inspired look of the Tribal Music Theme makes it feel very young and hip.

Lightsource
The Lightsource theme is available in multiple monochromatic color schemes, all of which lend a fresh feeling to any blog.

Ambience
Ambience is a great theme that mixes bright colors with transparency.

Digital Farm
The Digital Farm theme mixes a very bright, illustrated header with an otherwise muted color scheme, and is a very young and fun theme.

Color3
Color3 mixes a brightly-colored background with bright green accents and very subtle transparency.

Colors
Colors is another great theme that mixes a very bright, neon-colored background, a bright header, and bright accents.

Anatomyinc
The Anatomyinc theme is an artistic-looking theme with transparency and a bright background.

Liquid Magazine
The Liquid Magazine theme’s half-tone inspired background is bright without taking focus away from the content.

About AuthorCameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 7 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.



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Posted by hongkiat in Inspiration , at 12.01.09

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Comments

  1. Aziq December 1st, 2009

    they all are beautiful.Gotta love colors.

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  2. Seth W December 1st, 2009

    Good choices and excellent blogs. Usually these kind of list posts contain the same 20-50 sites but you had a lot of designs I had never seen before. Good job on being pretty original.

    Reply
  3. designfollow December 1st, 2009

    great collection

    thank you

    Reply
  4. KevinChong December 2nd, 2009

    Cool blog design template, it is better than normal design. If I want to start a blog, I will choose the design from here.

    Reply
  5. olybop December 2nd, 2009

    Nice selection Thx :)

    Reply
  6. Josh December 2nd, 2009

    Great, original list. A lot of talent out there!

    Reply
  7. Design Informer December 2nd, 2009

    Nice collection of blogs. Like the others said, a lot of designs that I haven’t seen before.

    Reply
  8. Rozy December 2nd, 2009

    very very nice design and template
    can i download it

    Reply
  9. Min Thu December 2nd, 2009

    Absolutely beautiful sites!

    Reply
  10. Soft Skill December 2nd, 2009

    I want such beautiful blog design as well, but guess that we need to pay much for these theme.

    Reply
  11. Sandesh sethi December 2nd, 2009

    Nice work .But you missed lots of great colorful blogs out there which are new and amazing.

    Reply
  12. yichi December 2nd, 2009

    Thank you so much for featuring my work!

    Reply
  13. worship songs December 2nd, 2009

    Oh really these blogs are very beautiful and there color combination is awesome.

    Reply
  14. Aisling December 2nd, 2009

    Thank you so much for including me! :D

    I love colours. The designs you’ve posted here are lovely. I feel inspired!

    Reply
  15. Aaron December 2nd, 2009

    Impressive! Inspirational!

    Reply
  16. Taufik SM December 2nd, 2009

    OMG, I am visit your blog EVERYDAY…. I am loyal follower….

    Nice work, dude

    Reply
  17. steppinout December 3rd, 2009

    Awesome.

    Reply
  18. reezluv December 3rd, 2009

    whoa..these sites make me feels colourful enough..that’s a great list..I have visited 80% of those sites..:D

    Reply
  19. Robert McGuire (MD.) December 4th, 2009

    Very nice collection of beautiful blogs here. Very good color inspiration.

    Thanks for the post.

    Reply
  20. Danilo Fiocco December 4th, 2009

    Whoa! Mine is listed here! Thanks a lot :)
    Cheers :D

    Reply
  21. Adam Martin December 5th, 2009

    That is a pretty impressive list. Thanks.

    Reply
  22. Seth December 6th, 2009

    Great selection. Thank you!!

    Reply
  23. Elex December 6th, 2009

    that great!! thank you!

    Reply
  24. Stefan Atterdal December 6th, 2009

    Does this mean that we have to start writing in our blog again? *sigh*

    Thanks for the recognition.

    Cheers,
    Stefan Atterdal
    CEO, Designministeriet

    Reply
  25. patrickv December 6th, 2009

    very nice collection

    Reply
  26. Middbay December 6th, 2009

    cool man!! thanks

    Reply
  27. Cristopher December 7th, 2009

    nice collection!!

    Reply
  28. pangki | DoFollow December 7th, 2009

    Thank yoy for sharing. Nice collection!

    - Saya benar-benar suka koleksi Anda -

    Reply
  29. SmsVar, Sms Gönder, Toplu Sms December 8th, 2009

    this is thank you..

    Reply
  30. Elextra December 8th, 2009

    thanks again,, I’m happy to be here

    Reply
  31. Soul December 8th, 2009

    thank you for shared,, I love it!!

    Reply
  32. holidays December 10th, 2009

    tones of free stuff here, great!

    Reply
  33. KevinChong December 10th, 2009

    Where do you found this ? Is it free download or not ?

    Reply
  34. donny December 10th, 2009

    hi,nice blog theme…i prefer plan theme.easier and fast to download..

    Reply
  35. FlashMoto December 10th, 2009

    Thank you for this amazing collection of blog designs!
    Very inspiring!

    Reply
  36. Facebook Application Developer December 16th, 2009

    Well i like all these designs specially ezobase. Thanks for sharing :)

    Reply
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  38. Ben Stokes January 9th, 2010

    Thanks for the collection, we most enjoyed clicking the links provided.

    Reply
  39. Christopher January 25th, 2010

    very good blogs!

    Reply
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    Powerful author! GOOD!

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    Interesting story as for me. I’d like to read a bit more about this topic. Thanx for sharing that material.

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