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CSS Crème has showcased the best of web design since 2007, one of the original galleries that defined design inspiration online. A feature here is not a vanity badge. A link from CSS Crème carries authority a newer gallery cannot, plus the prestige of an OG name and an audience that decodes.

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The nominees

Cycle 01 · 14 entries · voting opens soon
#EntryCategoryStyleVisit
01 Pitch pitch.com ProductivityCompany Colorful · Big Type · Motion Visit ↗
02 Arc arc.net Creative ToolsCompany Colorful · Big Type · Illustrative Visit ↗
03 Lynn Fisher lynnandtonic.com PortfolioPortfolio Experimental · Colorful · Creative coding Visit ↗
04 Rauno Freiberg rauno.me PortfolioPortfolio Minimal · Experimental Visit ↗
05 Paco Coursey paco.me PortfolioPortfolio Minimal · B&W · Type-Based Visit ↗
06 Brittany Chiang brittanychiang.com PortfolioPortfolio Dark · Minimal · Type-Based Visit ↗
07 Clerk clerk.com Developer ToolsCompany Minimal · Colorful · Gradient Visit ↗
08 Cursor cursor.com Developer ToolsCompany Dark · Minimal Visit ↗
09 Superhuman superhuman.com ProductivityCompany Big Type · Minimal · Gradient Visit ↗
10 Raycast raycast.com Developer ToolsCompany Dark · Minimal Visit ↗
11 Framer framer.com Creative ToolsCompany Big Type · Colorful · Motion Visit ↗
12 Vercel vercel.com Developer ToolsCompany Dark · Minimal · Grid Visit ↗
13 Stripe stripe.com FintechCompany Gradient · Colorful · Minimal Visit ↗
14 Linear linear.app Developer ToolsCompany Dark · Big Type · Minimal Visit ↗

How the awards work

  1. 01
    Submit a site

    Anyone can submit a beautiful site, their own or one they admire. We index standouts ourselves, too.

  2. 02
    Nominees go up

    Each cycle's nominees land on the showcase, fully decode-able, so the work speaks for itself.

  3. 03
    The community votes

    Readers vote for the designs that deserve recognition. Voting opens with member accounts, coming soon.

  4. 04
    A winner is crowned

    Each month we name a winner and runners-up, and email the winner their embeddable badge.

Why a feature here matters

01

Authority that compounds

An aged, DR-74 domain with 2,000+ referring domains. A feature passes real SEO equity a brand-new directory cannot offer, because authority like this takes nearly two decades to build.

02

The original showcase

Back when the CSS gallery defined how designers found inspiration, this was one of the names that mattered. That heritage still carries weight across the design community.

03

An audience that decodes

CSS Crème readers do not just scroll. Every featured site opens into our decode workbench, where they pull its palette, measure its spacing and study the build.

The winner's badge

Winners get an embeddable badge for their own site. It links straight back to CSS Crème: a clean backlink from a high-authority design domain, and a mark of recognition visitors trust. Drop in two lines of HTML and you are done.

✶ CSS Crème · Design Award Winner
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  <span style="color:#F05A28">&#10038;</span> CSS Cr&egrave;me &middot; Design Award Winner
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