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12 Dark Mode Website Examples to Spark Your Imagination

January 17, 2025

Words by Jeff Cardello

Dark mode is a versatile website theme. Whether you want something that feels moody and mysterious, or playful and hyper-futuristic, there are so many different forms that it can take.

Are you ready to see what happens when things go dark?  We’re going to take you through 12 dark mode website examples showing you the many ways it can be used in creating intriguing and stylized web designs.

Isabel Moranta

Isabel Moranta's dark mode website portfolio showcases her work as an art director through a compelling visual narrative. With monolith-like serif typography and dramatic contrasts between light and dark, it feels like an opening to a French New Wave film. It gives visitors a unique user experience touched by the influence of avant-garde cinema while serving as an extension of her artistic talents. Dark mode website examples like Moranta’s show how minimalist designs with thoughtfully styled text and visuals can offer visitors experiences that feel fresh and inventive.

Splaaashes (Vev's version)

Dark mode website examples often feature vibrant visuals that appear even more striking in combination with black backgrounds. With neon colors, soft gradients, and liquid twisting forms, our re-build of Splaaashes adds beautiful swirls of bright colors to a dark mode website. While these abstractions have both dimensionality and color, they’re not pushed too hard, making them well-suited as backgrounds or with other visuals without the risk of overwhelming the rest of what’s onscreen. Made in Vev, subtle animations are added through the power of no-code to create a striking website in a matter of minutes and hours rather than weeks.

Noomo Beat

Who wouldn’t like to create a piece of music, and then have a bunch of garments jam out to it at a strangely back-lit warehouse space? Noomo Beat is weird and wonderful, letting you craft a track through the power of AI. Some of the prompts are straightforward, like picking a music genre, while others are more obsequious like picking a favorite color. At the end, shiny jackets, stylish dresses, and other clothing  bust out some serious dance moves to the generated song. We love coming across dark mode website examples like Noomo Beats, that offer visitors surreal multimedia experiences.

Qase

Many dark mode website examples blend darkness with light, to evoke a futuristic feel.

Qase, a quality assurance platform for testing software, fills its website with the colors of deep space and starry-like glow. It’s a galactic-inspired design that evokes innovation and is the perfect aesthetic for a company like Qase that operates in the realm of tech.

Osees

While the dark mode website examples we’ve looked at so far are on the more polished spectrum of web design, dark mode can also be far less refined. The Osees are a band whose music is a frenetic mix of oscillating guitars, pounding drums, and electronic blips and bleeps. This design with its Space Invader aliens and vector lines of CRT green, fits right in with the retro futuristic garage rock they create.

Qeldplan

Dark mode website examples often highlight delicate textures through careful combinations of color, saturation, brightness, and opacity.

Built with Vev, the Netherlands based finance company Qeldplan has a visually rich dark mode website with swirls of blue, green, and purple, floating pigs, color gradient text, and frosty glassmorphic containers. With clouds of color and glowing visuals, dark mode provides an airy and ethereal atmosphere.

Cosmos Studio

Based in Kyiv, Ukraine Cosmos Studio is a design agency that lives up to its name with an immersive and interactive website that feels like its own universe. As visitors start scrolling the view pans over the shoulder of a glimmering being, and brings them directly into the screen it's looking at. It’s an imaginative beginning that floats viewers through a low-gravity field of projects. Dark mode website examples like Cosmos studios show just why it’s such a great theme for sci-fi inspired designs.

Walbi

Whether you’re bullish, bearish, or a cryptocurrency skeptic, it’s hard to ignore the many brilliant dark mode website examples in the crypto space. Walbi, punctuates its dark mode website with glow-in-the dark green buttons, retro-typefaces, slick scroll-triggered animations, and 3D graphics that come together in offering visitors an action packed and unique user experience.

Moog Music

Moog Music, one of the pioneers of electronic instruments, launched its first modular synthesizer back in 1964. Their gear has been used by a wide range of musicians like Stevie Wonder, Depeche Mode, and Radiohead.

With wood panels, black and silver knobs, and led lights Moog’s instruments have a classic, yet futuristic look.  Moog uses dark mode in this horizontally scrolled website to reflect the innovation and craftsmanship of their instruments.

Hartmann Capital

Hartmann Capital is an investment firm specializing in virtual reality, generative AI content, and video games. While what they focus on sounds like something that’s years away from hitting the mainstream, developments in processing power and artificial intelligence are pushing the evolution of these technologies at a rapid pace.

With laser blues shimmering in an expanse of darkness, it conjures a cutting-edge sense of innovation that compliments their investment work with AI and VR. Dark mode website examples like Metaverse Ventures show how effective this design aesthetic is in capturing a sense of futurism.

Emotion Agency

I know what you’re thinking. Another outer space inspired dark mode website? While many dark mode website examples go with a space theme, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room to be original. Emotion Agency, pushes its website deep into the realm of sci-fi fantasy with a pulsing electronic music soundtrack and a dragon-like winged creature leading you through an purple and craggy alien landscape. This is more than just a dark mode website, but an immersive journey of visuals and sound reflecting Emotions' imagination and skills as front end developers.

Teletech EDM

Teletech is an event and clothing company, whose focus is electronic dance music. This dark mode website features glitchy animated effects, 8-bit typefaces, and even an interactive 80s styled shooter video game that you can play right in your browser, that embraces a more experimental and retro style of dark mode.

Start creating dark mode content with Vev

Use Variables in Vev to create light and dark mode content, or an entire website. With our simple drag-and-drop editor, easy styling, and modular layout components, you can take full creative control over your designs. When you're ready, publish anywhere on the web! Creating, scaling, and editing interactive content has never been easier.

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