Web design trends 2026

Rising: Three.js (+7.6 points), Next.js (+3.7 points) and Lenis (+3.0 points), measured as the change in share between sites added in the last 6 months and those added before.

Falling: Lottie (−6.1 points), Webflow (−3.3 points) and Rive (−2.5 points).

Styles gaining ground: organic and natural, pixel and 8-bit, and playful.

Motion is where hand-picked sites differ most from the average web. GSAP does the choreography, Lenis smooths the scroll it runs on and Three.js draws anything in 3D, and they often appear together. GSAP leads, on 50% of recent sites. The biggest gain is Three.js, up 7.6 points; the biggest drop is Lottie, down 6.1.

React, usually through Next.js, is the default for custom-built sites, with Vue and Nuxt the main alternative. Astro suits sites that are mostly content. React leads, on 39% of recent sites. The biggest gain is Next.js, up 3.7 points; the biggest drop is Vue.js, down 1.5.

Most hand-picked sites are custom code. Of the builders, Webflow and Framer are the designers' tools, both letting a designer ship motion without a developer; Shopify carries the commerce sites. Webflow leads, on 13% of recent sites. The biggest gain is Shopify, up 1.4 points; the biggest drop is Webflow, down 3.3.

Well-designed sites rarely use a component kit, because the look is the point. Tailwind CSS is the exception: it styles without imposing a look. Tailwind CSS leads, on 34% of recent sites. The biggest drop is Radix UI, down 2.0.

Type is where these sites differ most from each other. Faces from independent foundries such as Pangram Pangram and Dinamo sit next to free workhorses like Inter and Geist. Inter leads, on 8.7% of recent sites. The biggest gain is Geist Mono, up 2.1 points; the biggest drop is Inter, down 1.5.

Styles are read from how each captured section is described, so one section can count toward several. Each row opens a mood board built from the sections behind it. Editorial leads, on 17% of recent sections. The biggest gain is Organic and natural, up 1.5 points; the biggest drop is Editorial, down 3.7.

The save.design library is curated: each site is added by hand because it is well made, then its live page is analyzed for framework, animation libraries, UI libraries, platform and fonts. Sections are captured from those sites and described by a classifier, which is where the style counts come from.

552 of the 1,199 sites were added in the last 6 months. Each share is the percentage of sites in that group using the technology; the change is in percentage points. The page recalculates daily, so the numbers move as the library grows. It measures what good sites are doing, not the whole web.