It takes less than a second for people to form an opinion about your website. Given that you never get a second chance to make that first impression, new visitors need to be impressed almost instantly.
Strong branding is a key differentiator for many companies. You’ll likely find similar products sold by competitors at similar prices—but your website can be a key differentiator. A captivating website design can sometimes be the difference between a customer clicking through and making a sale or moving on to a competitor.
Good web design increases the amount of people who can engage with it. Your site should be accessible to everyone, including those with cognitive, auditory, or visual disabilities. An accessible site showcases information in a way that makes people more likely (and able) to consume it.
Ahead, you’ll find 26 beautiful websites that nailed their design.
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26 beautiful websites to inspire yours
- De La Calle!
- Bite toothpaste
- Nugget
- Duradry
- Snacklins
- Magic Spoon
- Couplet Coffee
- Switch
- Great Jones
- Ugmonk
- Hardgraft
- Everlane
- LEIF
- UPPERCASE magazine
- Who Gives a Crap
- Haus
- FreshCap
- Noon
- Koffiracha
- Myna Snacks
- Calm
- Quite Nice
- 207ouest
- Daylight
- Simple Complex
- Bored Cow
1. De La Calle!
Why it’s good. Soda brand De La Calle’s website captures user attention with its unique font and bright brand colors. The high-quality product photos show the variety of flavors that customers can buy, and a short explanation on the homepage explains the components and origins of the drink.
What you can steal:
- Use a custom font for headings on your website.
- Showcase value propositions in an above-the-fold banner.
- Choose one standout color to use for headings, buttons, and icons.
2. Bite toothpaste
Why it’s good: Bite toothpaste reimages toothpaste, and its website reimages what a dental product websites can be. The header image shows the product with nature in the background, emphasizing the company’s ecological mission. High-quality photographs of the product in use demonstrate how it works—crucial when you’re operating in a new category.
What you can steal:
- Choose one hero color to feature across all elements of your site.
- Give images more than 50% of above-the-fold space on product pages.
- Take photos of your products with your brand color incorporated (such as the model’s clothes or backdrop).
3. Nugget
Why it’s good: Nugget’s play furniture for kids comes in a variety of colors, and the brand’s website design mirrors that. The homepage is decorated with custom illustrations, like you’d see in a children’s book, to make its online Shopify store stand out. It also uses plenty of photographs of the furniture in use.
What you can steal:
- Use illustrations and other design elements to highlight your theme.
- Use subtly patterned backgrounds (instead of block color) to add texture to your website.
4. Duradry
Why it’s good: Duradry is an excellent example of how an ecommerce website design can be clean and elegant. The website’s colors match the packaging of the products, which are showcased throughout the homepage. The homepage also features positive product reviews, user videos, press coverage, and testimonials from dermatologists.
What you can steal:
- Record short videos to show customers how to use your products.
- Photograph one hero image, leaving space for text and CTA buttons on one side.
- Add social proof including press features, expert recommendations, and customer reviews.
5. Snacklins
Why it’s good: The Snacklins website is bold, fun, and still practical. You’ll see attention-grabbing product details in large sections and the brand’s distinct logo, wordmark, and pink color.
What you can steal:
- Use product photos as background over which to overlay text boxes.
- Create product pages each with its own background color to make individual products more distinct.
6. Magic Spoon
Why it’s good: There’s one word that comes to mind when visiting Magic Spoon’s homepage: nostalgia—which not coincidentally ties into the brand’s unique selling proposition of recreating your favorite childhood flavors. The store is bright and whimsical, with animated pieces of cereal floating across the page.
What you can steal:
- Experiment with floating elements to add a fun, interactive element.
- Use color gradients (instead of solids) to create a sense of movement and dynamism.
7. Couplet Coffee
Why it’s good: Couplet Coffee uses fun comic-style branding on its website. Bright colors and squiggles and doodles in a hand-drawn style, create a maximalist aesthetic, that’s vibrant without being chaotic.
What you can steal:
- Use a sticky navigation bar so people can find their way around the website, regardless of how far down the web page they’ve scrolled.
- Use a website ticker to highlight time-sensitive information (in this case that the moka pots are back in stock).
8. Switch
Why it’s good: Switch uses minimal light, airy brand colors to match the type of product it’s selling (journals). The website promotes a sense of calm, and even the call-to-action buttons manage to be soothing while still standing out.
What you can steal:
- Use plenty of blank space between chunks of text to keep your website looking clean and uncluttered.
- Add descriptive alt text to images to improve accessibility, so the maximum number of visitors can use your website.
- Pair your website color scheme with that of your products.
9. Great Jones
Why it’s good: Great Jones keeps web design consistent with colors, fonts, and logos. Special or seasonal products are advertised at the top of the page in the brand’s signature bold colors. The font used within the logo is continued through headings elsewhere on the web page.
What you can steal:
- Use transparent backgrounds on product photos.
- Choose one key font for headings on your website.
- Use an announcement bar with a solid contrasting color to communicate special offers.
10. Ugmonk
Why it’s good: Ugmonk’s website uses neutral backgrounds and blank space to keep its homepage looking clean. The homepage also features user videos showing Ugmonk’s products in use during customers’ work days.
What you can steal:
- Conduct the straw test to see whether your webpage is overcrowded.
- Use complementary colors (in this case green, brown, and mustard) to create a cohesive aesthetic.
11. Hardgraft
Why it’s good: Hardgraft’s online store is simple and sophisticated. The product photographs, header images, and design details speak to the artisanal nature of the products and the focus on quality craftsmanship, and the note from the founders near the top of the page reinforces their ethos.
What you can steal:
- Use a company mission statement or note to guide your design and explain your values to viewers.
- Combine multiple fonts to spark interest (like in the top menu bar).
12. Everlane
Why it’s good: Everlane’s online store has a minimalist design to match its clothing style and brand transparency. The brand highlights its focus on sustainability, linking to its impact report on the homepage and directing users to read about its mission right from the navigation bar.
What you can steal:
- Direct site visitors to learn more about your mission by highlighting it throughout your website.
- For fashion websites, combine photos of the products with ensemble looks so site visitors can easily envision how the clothes or accessories look when worn, and how to style them.
13. LEIF
Why it’s good: LEIF sells home and living products through its branded online store. Its hand-drawn style logo, fonts, and design elements give the impression of a brand that’s homey and one of a kind, and manage to combine varied curated goods into a cohesive collection.
What you can steal:
- Use a clear theme to create cohesion among different styles and collections.
- Arrange product photos in different dimensions and shapes (oval, rectangular, at an angle) for a whimsical and eclectic approach.
14. UPPERCASE magazine
Why it’s good: UPPERCASE magazine uses its product as a design feature on its website. The gorgeous magazines are featured in a header video on the homepage, and to break up sections across the website’s pages. Like the product it’s selling, the website is creative, colorful, and full of interesting design details.
What you can steal:
- Use a bold-colored announcement bar to communicate important information.
- Allocate the most space to visual elements that showcase your hero product.
- Use videos to create movement on your page and showcase a range of products.
15. Who Gives a Crap
Why it’s good: Who Gives a Crap takes a fun and cheeky approach to selling toilet paper. The brand’s captivating website uses contrasting colors to draw attention and includes playful shapes like clouds, hearts, and circles for text boxes and photos.
What you can steal:
- Highlight product bundles and high-value sales on the homepage.
- Explain your mission in multiple places (Who Gives a Crap highlights how its products are good for the planet, and how 50% of its profits are donated to charity).
16. Haus
Why it’s good: Haus’s website manages to convey a sense of sophistication and joyful hospitality by combining sleek shapes and photographs of people enjoying their aperitifs. The signature arch-shaped background behind each bottle image carries through the website; a subtle design element that elevates even the most standard product page.
What you can steal:
- Feature press coverage and reviews to create buzz.
- Give personality by placing block-colored shapes (in your brand’s main color) behind product shots.
17. FreshCap
Why it’s good: Good website design helps to educate customers about your products. FreshCap is a great example of how to do that. The brand sells organic mushroom extract, and its website educates customers on the potential benefits of taking mushroom supplements. The homepage features an annotated diagram of the different mushrooms FreshCap offers and the health effects associated with each.
What you can steal:
- Use fun graphics to communicate the benefits of your products.
- Use eye-catching photography that highlights different parts of your products.
18. Noon
Why it’s good: Noon’s website is simple and modern with a color palette that reflects its products—mushrooms. The images are high-quality and often shot from a dramatic angle, adding to the psychedelic vibe of the brand.
What you can steal:
- Use a color palette that reflects your brand’s products.
- Get creative with product photos to give your website personality and help it stand out.
- Use icons and graphics alongside photographic imagery to add an extra visual layer.
19. Koffiracha
Category: Ecommerce
Why it’s good: Koffiracha’s website is an experience. Visitors are met with big, bold text, bright colors, and animated imagery, all tying into the brand’s loud personality. Interestingly, the navigation bar is at the bottom of the hero image on the homepage, giving the website a unique twist and encouraging site visitors to scroll before they click.
What you can steal:
- Add elements that encourage people to scroll down the page.
- Use big bold text to highlight key product information.
- Sprinkle animated graphics and photos around the site to tie sections together.
20. Myna Snacks
Why it’s good: Myna Snacks’ website is big, bright, and bold—a complete embodiment of the brand’s fun personality. The color palette is simple but cohesive, combining pinks, reds, and creams for a nostalgic feel.
What you can steal:
- Think about how you want people to feel when they land on your website and use fonts and colors to evoke that feeling.
- Don’t be afraid to use big, bold color palettes.
- Use shapes and lines to separate sections and give structure to your site.
21. Calm
Why it’s good: Calm’s simple homepage design fits its brand values (sleep, meditation, and relaxation). Its value proposition is stated clearly, and the most important element on the page—a “Try Calm for Free” button—allows visitors to take steps toward making a purchase, even if they’re not ready to commit.
What you can steal:
- Have a free trial form be the focal point of landing pages to collect visitor data.
- Clearly state what your product does in a subtitle beneath your main header.
- Use a full-page photo as your website’s background, with gradient overlays to make sure text is readable.
22. Quite Nice
Why it’s good: Quite Nice’s website uses striking imagery to tie each section of the website together. It combines illustrations with high-quality photographs, creating a whimsical experience for website visitors. The navigation bar is simple, offering only two options to visitors: “Try Now” or the option to check out the science behind the products.
What you can steal:
- Keep your navigation bar simple—think about what you want people to do on your website and push them toward that action.
- Combine photographs and illustrations for a more fun feel.
- Use moving imagery to encourage visitors to keep scrolling down each page.
23. 207ouest
Why it’s good: Concept store 207ouest’s website is a reflection of its sleek, luxury products. The color palette is mostly neutral (with a few pops of brilliant color), and it places a huge emphasis on beautiful photography. The products are always center stage, with every page filled with big, high-quality pictures.
What you can steal:
- Use imagery to do all the talking and keep the rest of your site neutral and minimal.
- Incorporate plenty of white space to create a luxury feel.
- Sprinkle pops of color throughout your website to highlight important information and key sections.
24. Daylight
Why it’s good: Daylight’s website brings together photos, videos, and animations. The curved lines and modern design reflect the forward-thinking nature of the product while the color scheme provides an almost nostalgic feel.
What you can steal:
- Use photos and videos so visitors can explore your products in different ways.
- Make use of animations, annotations, and graphics to show the benefits and features of your products.
25. Simple Complex
Why it’s good: Simple Complex, a nutrition brand, really leans into the scientific element of its products to give its website an almost clinical style. The fonts, colors, and layout all come together to make it feel like a science magazine or journal.
What you can steal:
- Leverage color as a way to make visitors feel a certain way—for Simple Complex, the deep red, cream, and black theme is very serious and medicinal.
- Use a video on your homepage instead of a static hero image to keep visitors engaged for longer.
26. Bored Cow
Why it’s good: Bored Cow’s website is fun and fancy-free. It uses bright colors to spotlight calls to action and important information, while animated graphics and illustrations bring a ton of personality to the site.
What you can steal:
- Combine high-quality photos with fun graphics to add personality.
- Use illustrations to showcase the benefits and features of your products in a fun way.
- Highlight the actions you want shoppers to take next—Bored Cow’s “Shop Now” buttons are all in contrasting orange so they stand out against the more muted purples and blues.
Create your own beautiful website
A unique, well-designed website is one of the best ways to showcase your brand’s personality and values—and Shopify’s website builder makes it easy to build one that stands out. From consistent colors to custom graphics, take inspiration from these beautiful websites to craft your own.
If web design isn’t your strong suit (or you simply don’t have the time), hiring a professional web designer can be a smart move. A polished, on-brand site can make all the difference.
Explore Shopify’s powerful website-building tools or connect with a Shopify partner to bring your vision to life today.
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Beautiful websites FAQ
What are some common design mistakes to avoid?
Cluttered layouts, inconsistent branding, poor mobile responsiveness, and hard-to-read fonts can make your website look unprofessional and difficult to navigate. Avoid slow-loading pages by optimizing images and keeping web design elements clean and purposeful.
How do I choose the right color palette for my website?
Start with your brand’s personality—do you want to feel bold and energetic or calm and trustworthy? Use color psychology to guide your choices and stick to a cohesive palette with two to four main colors. Tools like Adobe Color or Coolors can help you find complementary shades that enhance readability and visual appeal.
Why is design important for a website?
Beautiful websites rely on good design ideas because:
- It gives a good first impression
- It impacts how well people navigate the website
- It builds brand recognition and loyalty
- It reduces pain points for users to accomplish what they need or want to
What makes a beautiful website?
Beautiful websites are:
- Easy to navigate
- Consistent with brand colors, logos, and fonts
- Designed with high-contrast CTA buttons
- Built with a condensed navigation bar
- Visually engaging with photos, icons, or graphics
How can I make my website look professional?
- Compress elements for fast loading times
- Conduct an accessibility audit
- Use a maximum of two fonts and three colors
- Showcase large, high-quality images
- Hire web designers to bring your vision to life
How do you create a pretty website?
If you’re tight on budget and not tech-savvy, use a free, premade theme to instantly refresh your web design. Alternatively, search for web designers with experience creating beautiful websites that are exclusive to each brand.