40+ Useful Websites For Designs

kingandfifth · 2024-06-08T15:34:04+00:00

ICONS http://icons8.com/ - 55,300 free icons. Yes, you've heard it. They're free and although it comes with some size and copyright restrictions. https://iconpharm.com/ - 9,900 free icons. This one allows you to do multiple edits to icons before downloading them. http://creativedo.co/FontAwesomePS - Fontawesome plugin right inside your photoshop, vector .svg format. http://www.flaticon.com/ - A really good web-based archive for icons. https://material.io/icons/ - A pretty nice collection of material design icons from google. https://thenounproject.com/ - A really rad collection of icon sets for all kinds of design. https://mariodelvalle.github.io/CaptainIconWeb/ - A single author created 350+ resizeable icons for your use. PATTERNS https://www.toptal.com/designers/subtlepatterns/ - It's an awesome site to get clean patterns from. http://thepatternlibrary.com - THIS WEBSITE IS AMAZING. Seamless patterns. Just. Amazing. STOCK PHOTOS https://unsplash.com/ - Unbelievably HD, beautiful, free photos that you can use. https://stocksnap.io/ - A nice collection of HD stock photos all under CC0 license. http://nos.twnsnd.co/ - This one is really cool, it's basically a site dedicated to vintage-type photos, of course, you can use the stocks as well. https://pixabay.com/ - Don't you just love the CC0 license? https://www.foodiesfeed.com/ - YOOOO. DESIGN + FOOD. No seriously, this is a lot like food porn. There's a lot of HD food goodies in here. https://uifaces.co/ - A very useful website where you can basically get photos to use for mock avatars on any https://www.photobash.org/ - More royalty free stock photos! RENDERS http://www.renders-graphiques.fr/galerie.htm - Mostly anime-related renders. http://www.stickpng.com/ - A collection of renders for things like games, animes, memes, musicians, etc. VECTORS http://www.freepik.com/ - They have an unbelievable amount of free vectors you can utilize. http://vecteezy.com/ - Also another free vector archive, though a little more limited than freepik. https://undraw.co/illustrations - Amazing crazy find, this website lets you use .svg vector illustrations. https://worldvectorlogo.com/ - A collection of famous logos for different brands/companies around the world in .svg format! INSPIRATION https://webcreme.com - Design inspiration for the mock-up idea hungry designers. http://littlebigdetails.com/ - For your daily dose of design inspiration. https://niice.co/ - Just a lot of designs for every category you may be able to think of. https://www.awwwards.com/ - Best webdesign trends, they're sort of like the grammys for music, except it's webdesign. https://logopond.com/ - A collection of really amazing logos to take inspiration from. COLOR PALETTE https://webkul.github.io/coolhue/ - Another resource to grab ideas of cool gradient combinations from. http://www.sankk.in/material-mixer/ - Quite useful for mixing and matching colours for material design, ui/ux. http://paletton.com/ - If you were running out of ideas for color combinations, this one really can save you. https://pigment.shapefactory.co/ - A wonderful looking resource website for picking colors. Palettes are contrast-friendly. https://coolors.co/ - Another awesome website where you can generate color palettes. GRADIENTS https://www.grabient.com/ - Grab a gradient, grabient. Get it? No?... Okay... https://uigradients.com - A very cool looking website for gradients. FONTS https://fonts.google.com/ - Honestly if you didn't know you could get amazing free fonts from this website, I'm sort of judging you a little. http://www.dafont.com/ - ALL DA FREE FONTS. See what I did there? RESOURCE PACKS/WEBSITES https://designbundles.net/free-design-resources - Basically a collection of random resource packs. https://freebiesbug.com/ - A site pretty much dedicated to giving out free design resources. http://flypixel.com/ - Has a lot of free design mock-ups and flat designs. http://graphicburger.com/ - A lot like freebiesbug and flypixel. http://dbfreebies.co/ - A lot of the freebies from dribble and behance categorized into one website. https://medialoot.com/ - Has a lot of nice icon sets and different other resource collections such as .psds, etc. MISC. https://zipshared.co - I personally use this file uploader, it's lovely and all around neat. https://zippyfiles.co - I personally use this file uploader to upload heavy files such as .psds for clients. https://placeit.net/ - It's a pretty cool website to place/edit any type of image into someone's hand using mobile devices.