93 Best Astro Website Examples

John Siciliano
Has affiliate links Published 5/27/2025 Updated 8/16/2026

Most sites like these come down to a choice: bold colour and photography, or a stripped-back dark screen that lets the product speak. I ran the best Astro websites through Claude, and almost-black backgrounds dominate this set far more than anywhere else in the gallery. That lines up with a developer-facing audience that responds to contrast and clarity over decoration. The examples below put nearly all their effort into headline treatment and button colour, so start there when you build yours.

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Platform

Style

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Design Data

The colors, fonts, and layout choices used across 93 Astro websites.

9px Button corner radius median across 34 sites
67px Headline size median across 46 sites
4 Navigation links median across 73 sites

Background color

How dark or light the page background is (background luminance).

  • White / near white 47.3% (44)
  • Black / near black 43% (40)
  • Dark 8.6% (8)
  • Light 1.1% (1)

Accent color

The color of each site's primary button, measured from its code (accent hue family).

  • Black, white & gray 37.5% (33)
  • Amber / orange 17% (15)
  • Blue 10.2% (9)
  • Green 9.1% (8)
  • Purple 9.1% (8)
  • Red 5.7% (5)
  • Pink 5.7% (5)
  • Teal / cyan 4.5% (4)
  • Lime 1.1% (1)

Hero layout

How the top section arranges its headline and imagery.

  • Text left, image right 28.8% (17)
  • Text above full-width media 27.1% (16)
  • Centered text 27.1% (16)
  • Asymmetric 6.8% (4)
  • Image left, text right 5.1% (3)

Hero imagery

The kind of visual the top section leads with.

  • No imagery 28.9% (26)
  • Illustration 23.3% (21)
  • Photography 22.2% (20)
  • Product screenshot 20% (18)
  • 3D artwork 5.6% (5)

Button shape

Corner rounding on primary buttons (border radius relative to height).

  • Rounded corners 44.1% (15)
  • Pill (fully rounded) 38.2% (13)
  • Square corners 17.6% (6)

Font combination

How heading and body typefaces pair (serif vs. sans-serif).

  • All sans-serif 80.4% (37)
  • Serif headings, sans-serif body 17.4% (8)
  • Monospace 2.2% (1)

Color intensity

How colorful the palette is, from black-and-white to bold color (saturation).

  • Black & white 46.2% (43)
  • Soft, muted color 46.2% (43)
  • Bold, vivid color 7.5% (7)

Dark mode support

Sites whose code adapts to the visitor's light/dark preference (prefers-color-scheme).

  • Yes 13.2% (7)
  • No 86.8% (46)

Most-used fonts

The typeface each site leads with, read from its live CSS.

  • Inter 7.1% (3)
  • satoshi 4.8% (2)
  • Rubik 4.8% (2)
  • Plus Jakarta Sans 4.8% (2)
  • InterVariable 4.8% (2)

Percentages are the share of sites where each trait could be measured, with counts in parentheses. Last updated August 2026.

Best Astro website examples skip photography for something more built

Photography leads the wider gallery, appearing in 64.1% of hero sections, but among Astro website design work it drops to 22.2%, with only 20 sites in that bucket. Astro sites reach instead for illustration and product mockups, which together nearly match photography’s usual dominance. This fits a builder audience: Astro is a tool for shipping documentation sites, dashboards, and product marketing pages, so screenshots of the actual interface do more persuasive work than a stock photo ever could. RelaGitDeveloper tools website — sleek, modern dark mode design in navy, purple, and blue. "Streamline your Git workflow." and DashboardMixProductivity SaaS dashboard website — clean, minimal typography design in purple, orange, and gray. "All-in-one dashboard" both lead with product-screenshot heroes, and FleekAI-powered help desk SaaS website — clean, modern design in teal, mint, and yellow. "Your next generation help desk tool" does the same against a near-black backdrop. Where photography does appear, as in Abhijith A SMinimalist personal portfolio website for a frontend engineer, featuring a clean and efficient dark-themed design in shades of blue and emerald green. "I, Abhijith A S" and Aitor EzcurraSoftware developer portfolio website — dark, minimalist typography design in black, white, and neon gradients. "Aitor Ezcurra", it tends to pair with darker, more editorial layouts rather than the bright lifestyle shots common elsewhere.

Near-black backgrounds are almost as common as white

Near-black backgrounds sit at 43% here, against 18.1% across the gallery as a whole, making this one of the sharpest departures on the page. White-leaning (“near_white”) backgrounds still edge ahead at 47.3%, so the two are effectively splitting the field between them, with dark and light backgrounds reduced to minor variants. This is a two-camp niche, not a spectrum: Astro websites commit to bright, near_white canvases like Catona ClimateClimate tech website — premium, editorial serif typography design in dark and cream. "Finance Is A Force Of Nature" and KrzModern SaaS newsletter curation tool with clean, minimal typography in black, white, and gray. "Create and Share personalized Newsletter Digests", or they go near-black like RelaGitDeveloper tools website — sleek, modern dark mode design in navy, purple, and blue. "Streamline your Git workflow.", FleekAI-powered help desk SaaS website — clean, modern design in teal, mint, and yellow. "Your next generation help desk tool", 3DNSWeb3 domain fractionalization service with bold, futuristic typography and dark green accents. "Fractionalize Your Domain", and FramePluginsDark, minimal web design tool website with clean typography and 3D metallic illustrations. "All the best Framer plugins — to supercharge your website.". Anyone designing in this space should treat the middle ground (dark grays, off-whites) as the underused option, since almost every site here picks a pole.

Colour is treated as a structural choice, not decoration

Monochrome palettes appear on 46.2% of these sites, well above the gallery-wide 29.7%, and muted palettes tie it exactly at 46.2% too, leaving vibrant color at just 7.5%. Combined with black or white CTA buttons showing up repeatedly across the example set, from Monocle SearchSaaS website for Squarespace search plugin — clean, minimal design in warm cream and forest green. "Fast, Accurate Search Plugin for Squarespace" to BitpingDeveloper tools website — dark, minimalist typography design in purple, teal, and white. "Build without boundaries." to Diego JavrSoftware development portfolio website — clean, minimal dark-themed design in black, white, and gold. "Hola, soy Diego", this points to a design culture that reserves color for rare functional accents rather than branding flourishes. When hue does appear, neutral tones lead the accent palette at 37.5%, with amber a distant second at 17%. A builder working in Astro should expect the interface itself, typography and spacing, to carryFintech wealth management website — minimal, typographic design in charcoal and amber. "Grow your net worth with smart tax optimization" the visual weight, not a color system.