30 Awesome Designs with Monochromatic Color Palettes

Who says websites should be as colorful as a nursery kid’s sketchbook? In fact too much use of colors, especially the bright ones like dark orange and dark yellow, can result in poor quality and give your site a nitty-gritty appearance. Have you ever noticed that Facebook uses a single color – navy blue – in abundance on its site? Although there are many ways you can structure your site using minimalist colors, but one way to do so is the monochromatic color design.

“Mono” means one and “chrome” means color. Therefore monochromatic means “single color”. There are many websites on the Internet which use monochromatic color palettes. In science the word monochromatic is taken literally. Monochromatic light means light having exactly the same frequency or in other words, exactly the same color throughout. But the word shouldn’t be taken literally in arts. Monochromatic color scheme implies a design having a single color at heart, but it can and usually it does have many other tones, hues and variations of the core color. If properly applied this monochromatic feature can do wonders to your website design.

To give you an idea of how well this feature can work, below I have collected a list of 30 awesome monochromatic color palette designs for your inspiration.