Photographers often turn to sunsets to capture some spectacular and vibrant color palettes painted across Mother Nature’s canvas. The sky turns so many different shades as the sun sinks behind the horizon, that you find many saying that sunset is a time of inspiration. As designers, we can turn to these amazing photos not only to inspire but to capture some of those color palettes for our own work.
That is why we have this post working double duty for our readers. We have collected some wonderful photographs of sunsets and arranged them in a gallery to inspire you. And we have generated color palettes from the photos that we have included in the post so that you can save them and use them later in your future designs.
The Goods
Sunset
Hopeful Horizons
Sunset on Goulais Bay by spisharam
Sunsets by Mohamed Malick
Sunset by Neils Photography
Sunset by Brian Forbes
Sunset by Diego PH
Sunset by halfrain
Sunset by luvjnx
Sunset by Don Dearing
Sunset tree by jsogo
Sunset by Diego PH
Sunset by Sergey Pesterev
Sunset by John Towner
Sunset by Gabriel Testoni
Sunset by stories
Sunset by Jaime Serrano
Sunset by John ehrlich
A Sunset by Sheila Jellison
Sunset by Neils Photography
Body of water
Bradley Beach
Island by Andre Benz
at sunset… by Tyler Lastovich
Island during daytime
Seashore near rocky mountain
Sunset by Zdeněk Macháček
Just before the beach fireworks started
Silhouette of rocks
Red Sunset
Image by Stefan Schweihofer from Pixabay
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23 Comments:
October 23, 2018
The sunset pictures are lovely and they are so refreshing. I have lived all my life chasing sunsets. I relally love this page
Thanks
The combination of colours are amazing!!!!!
July 30, 2012
Fantabulous
December 30, 2011
Gorgeous plethora of natural color palettes - nature does it best! It will be a challenging but fun decision to make. Thank you for posting - definitely sharing this post! @isq
November 21, 2011
incredible photos, will share the link
November 20, 2011
Beautiful!! stunning!! thank you! enjoyed the blog very much!
September 13, 2011
Robert, I am honored to have my images included in your article and to be considered on par with the excellent images you have used to make your poignant point.
July 8, 2011
Great article!
June 22, 2011
great post, and the selection of picture really does the job,
yet I always find that using 5 colors is a little too much
I would rather go with 3 colors, that work 2 by 2
the white, black or grey can come help if 3 is really too few...
June 18, 2011
Fantastic Pictures, however I'd highly recommend paying attention to the use of the amount of colours which is a great deal in almost every case, especially in design.
The site COLOURlovers does this and J. Itten also ephasises this in his book.
Great post anyways!
Cheers,
Greg
June 14, 2011
Thanks, Lasantha, we appreciate the comments. I agree, that color palette would work well for long hour exposure on a site.
June 14, 2011
Great article... I really like the palette "Sunset in Oporto by nfp", coz most of its colors are earth colors and it's suitable for a site where users visit frequently and spend long hours.
Anyway thanx Noupe for sharing the article. Hope to use the same technique when choosing color palettes in my future designs... :) :) :)
June 9, 2011
Thanks so much for all the kind and encouraging words. We are glad that so many people find the post different and useful.
Noupe Editorial
June 9, 2011
Thanks for the kind words and interest.
Don't have another with sunrises...yet. ;) That was actually something under consideration after we put this post together. Originally we thought of doing both sunrise and sunsets in a single post, but found so many great photos of sunsets that it would have just been too much in a single post. But keep an eye out, for as the sun sets, so must it rise.
June 9, 2011
So true. It is about more than just having the right colors.
June 8, 2011
Beautiful images. Thanks for sharing!
June 8, 2011
The colors of summer are all around us. This time of year always gets me to notice the vibrant colors around me.
June 8, 2011
Thank you for this gorgeous combo of sunsets and palettes of color! I would love to post this on my blog.
Do you have another with sunrises? I wonder if cooler colors might make up the palettes for that time of day?
June 8, 2011
Awesome share, thanks a lot
June 8, 2011
Good Job . Something very different
June 8, 2011
Awesome
June 8, 2011
Great examples of color palletes. I think it's not only about the colors, it depends a lot of the contrast too, you can use the same pallete but if the contrast is not right, the pallete is worthless.
Thanks for this!
June 7, 2011
What a great idea. It's amazing how many different color palettes can be made from the same sky! These are gorgeous images! I will have to bookmark this article and be sure to come back and use some of these palettes!
Thanks for the share!
June 7, 2011
Different, but creative article!