Design Resources
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Online Design Tools
All kinds of online tools for design, from photo editors to wireframing, and more
| Website | Description |
|---|---|
| Figma | Online graphic design tool (Free & paid options) |
| Vectr | Free vector graphics software |
| Taler | Create social media banner designs in minutes from hundreds of customizable templates |
| Canva | Create beautiful designs (Free & Paid) |
| Get Waves | A free SVG wave generator to make unique SVG waves for web design |
| Clippy | Easy CSS clip-path maker |
| Fancy Border Radius | Eight values specifying border-radius in CSS ( border-radius generator ) |
| Wireframe.cc | Wireframing tool (free & paid) |
| Fotor | Photo editor and design maker |
| Pixlr | Online photo editor |
| Animoto Video Maker | Make videos online |
| RemoveBG | Remove image backgrounds |
| Photo Creator | Create your own photos instead of searching for stock |
| Visme | Create presentations, infographics and more |
| Infogram | Create infograms |
| ChartGo | Create charts and graphs online |
| Colorable | Color combination contrast tester |
| Cartoon Photo | Turn photos into cartoons |
| Logo Maker | Create custom logos |
| Whimsical | Wireframes, diagrams and more (4 free) |
| Whiteboard | Online drawing tool |
| Octopus | Sitemap builder |
| CTA Button Maker | Create call to action buttons |
| Blobmaker | Blobmaker is a free generative design tool, to help you quickly create random, unique, and organic-looking SVG shapes |
| Personas | A playful avatar generator for the modern age |
| SoftUI | A Soft UI (neumorphism) CSS generator |
| Photopea | A Online Photoshop editor |
| Excalidraw | Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams |
| Diagrams | Diagram software and Flowchart maker |
| MapInSeconds | Simple way to visualize your data with a map |
| Grid Malven | A css grid cheatsheet to reference when creating a css grid |
| Flex Malven | A flexbox grid cheatsheet to reference when working with flexbox |
| Smart Upscaler | Upscale images by 2-4x resolution |
| GetAvataaars | Fun and Colorful free avatars web generator tool by Fang-Pen Lin using Pablo Stanley sketch library |
| Big Heads | Easily generate avatars for your projects with Big Heads by Robert Broersma. |
| Webflow | Break the code barrier, Build better business websites, faster. Without coding. |
| Trace | Instantly remove the background from your photos |
| Neumorphism.io | Generate Soft-UI CSS shadow code |
| DB Designer | Design your database for free online |
| Ui Bakery | Create full-fledged web apps visually |
| Faux | Turn real code into faux code |
| Rive | Real-time interactive design tool that allows you to design, animate, and immediately integrate your assets into any platform. |
| Unscreen | Remove Video Background 100% Automatically and Free |
| Kodeshot | Convert your source code into nice pictures for your articles, tweets, messages, posts... |
| Wix | Create a Website You’re Proud Of |
| GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization |
| Framer | Is prototyping tool for teams |
| Draw.io | Free online diagram editor tool |
| UXWing SVG Editor | Creating and Edit SVG Online |
| CSS Arrow | Create and export CSS code for a custom box with an arrow extending out from the side. Great for tooltips, flyouts and the like. |
Downloadable Design Software
Free software for UI, photo, 3d modeling, etc. Alternatives to paid software like Photoshop
| Website | Description |
|---|---|
| Gimp | Free & open source image editor similar to Photoshop |
| Gravit Designer | Free full-featured vector graphic design app that works on ALL platforms |
| Blender | Open source, free animation, 3D modeling, etc. |
| Raw Therapee | Cross-platform raw image processing program |
| Be Funky | Online design program |
| Krita | Sketching and painting program designed for digital artists |
| Pencil Project | GUI prototyping software |
| Inkscape | Powerful free design tool |
| Adobe XD | Free design tool from Adobe |
| Shapes.so | Icons that can be used as code in your projects |
| Lunacy | Sketch for Windows |
| InVision Studio | Free screen designing tool from InVision |
| Darktable | Free & Open source photography workflow application and raw developer |
| Inpixio photo Editor | Free Photo Editor: For windows only |
| Colorpicker | Open Source colors software: Retrieve, manipulate and store your colors easely! |
Fonts
Websites that offer free fonts as well as font based tools
| Website | Description |
|---|---|
| Google Fonts | Library of around 1000 free licensed font families |
| DaFont | Archive of freely downloadable fonts |
| Use & Modify | Personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces |
| 1001 Free Fonts | I think the name speaks for itself 😏 |
| Font Squirrel | Font Squirrel scours the internet for high quality, legitimately free fonts |
| Font Fabric | A digital type foundry crafting retail fonts and custom typography for various brands |
| Tiff | A type diff tool that visually contrasts the differences between two fonts |
| TypeKit Practice | Learn about typography practices |
| Fontjoy | Generate font pairing in one click |
| Golden Ratio | Golden Ratio Typography Calculator |
| FontSpark | Discover Better Fonts |
| FontPair | Helps you pair Google Fonts together |
| Font Space | A designer-centered free font website that has quick customizable previews |
| Abstract Fonts | Fonts free for personal and commercial use |
| Free Typography | A list of high quality fonts |
| Leon Sans | A geometric sans-serif typeface made with code |
| Lexend | A variable font empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency |
| Fonts for Apple Platforms | Get the details, frameworks, and tools you need to use system fonts for Apple platforms in your apps |
| SFWin | San Francisco Fonts for Windows 10 and non-Apple Platform |
| Font Flipper | Preview 800+ Google Fonts on top of your own designs, without having to download the fonts |
| Fonts Arena | Free curated fonts |
| Befonts | High quality fonts for free |
| Arabic fonts | Arabic fonts for free |
| FontDrop | Simple and easy way to view the contents of font files |
| Open Foundry | FREE platform for curated open-source typefaces |
| Glyphter | Upload your own SVGS and turn them into font files. Usefull if you want a smaller library loaded |
| Google Webfonts Helper | A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts |
| Rough Font Awesome | When RoughJS meets Font Awesome |
CSS Animations
CSS animations to build awesome animations for websites and applications
| Website | Description |
|---|---|
| Animate.css | Just-add-water CSS animations |
| Bounce.js | Bounce.js is a tool and JS library that lets you create beautiful CSS3 powered animations |
| Anime.js | Anime.js (/ˈæn.ə.meɪ/) is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API. It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects |
| Magic Animations | Animations has been one of the most impressive animation libraries available |
| Zdog | Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG |
| CSShake | CSShake delivers exactly what it says on the box — a CSS library designed specifically for shaking elements within your web page |
| Hover.css | Hover.css is a CSS animation library designed for use with buttons and other UI elements in your website |
| AniJS | AniJS is an animation library that allows you to add animations to elements in a simple ‘sentence-like’ structure |
| Animista | CSS Animations On Demand |
| Tachyons-animate | Tachyons itself is an atomic CSS library with a ton of utility classes for essentially designing anything by adding classes to what you need |
| Sequence.js | Sequence.js is a JavaScript library that provides a responsive CSS framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications |
| Infinite | These animations, like rotations and pulses, that are specifically designed to run and repeat forever |
| OBNOXIOUS.CSS | Animations for the strong of heart, and weak of mind |
| MOTION UI | A Sass library for creating flexible CSS transitions and animations |
| Keyframes.app | A graphical user interface for generating custom CSS keyframe animations |
| thoughtbot | CSS Transitions and Transformations for Beginners |