From this year’s fashion trend, to the wallpaper your parents had in the 60s, stripes are back and better than ever. Although the kind of stripes I’m talking about are the one’s used in website design.
Stripes are an excellent accent to any website. Now, let’s not crazy here and have stripes that look like Joseph’s techno-colour dream coat. That will just turn people away, and we wouldn’t want that, now would we. Instead, use it to differentiate your buttons; add character to your page headings; or add sharpness to that solid background. The key here is to make sure that the stripes are not intrusive. You want it to be cool, adding a touch of class, instead of begging for the viewers intention.
Here are a few examples of modern ways to use stripes in your design:
To make life easier, here is a helpful Stripe Generator to take fright out of creating stripes.
So stripes are in, and that’s that. Let’s not dispute it or debate it (or not, it’s really up to you). Let’s just decide to embrace it, or stand aside while this bold design element passes you by. But why use stripes? Well, just like your father use to tell you: ‘because I said so’. Besides, isn’t that’s how trends get started anyways?