A curated list of awesome stock photography, video and illustration websites.
I try my best to maintain this repository and keep it up-to-date but if you spot a broken link or a resource which isn't listed, please, feel free to make a pull request.
Table of Contents
- Photography
- Illustration
- Vector Graphics
- Videos
- Patterns
- Fonts
- Icons
- Colors
- Aggregated Content
- HTML Templates
- Sounds & Music
- Paid Resources
- How to Contribute
- How to Share
- Donate
- License
Photography
CC0-license
All the resources below have specifically specified that their content is
- Alana - Free “use how you want” stock photos.
- Barn Images - Barn Images offers you a collection of free high-resolution non-stock photography.
- Boss Fight! - 10–20 new images added daily.
- CC0 Photo - CC0.photo is a project initiated by Raffael Herrmann, which serves you with free photos.
- Creative Vix - A wide range of photos for you to use.
- Crow the Stone - Free photos to use any way you want.
- Cupcake - Free do what ever you want photos by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
- Epicantus - Hi-resolution photos added every week.
- Fancy Crave - Two new images added every day.
- FindA.Photo - search through thousands of CC0 photos by keyword and color.
- Free Nature Stock - Royalty-free, use them however you want, Nature Stock Photos.
- Free-Images.cc - Create something awesome with free CC0 images.
- Furious Camera - Free Life Hi-Fi Photos for use on your personal and commercial projects. New photo every day.
- Gratisography - Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New pictures added weekly.
- Jay Mantri - Free pics. Do anything. Make magic.
- Jéshoots - Photos for business or personal use in high resolution for free.
- Life of Pix - Free high-resolution photos, no copyright restrictions. Photographs added weekly.
- Little Visuals - Hi-res images zipped up in your inbox. Use them anyway you want.
- Lock & Stock Photos - Free stock photos for you.
- Magdeleine - A selection of free photos curated by Magdeleine.
- MMT - New photos by Jeffrey Betts added every week.
- Moveast - This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.
- Negative Space - Stock photos added every week.
- Pexels - Daily 10 new high-quality photos.
- Photo Collections - Free stock photography of architecture, nature and people.
- Photo Crops - Five high resolution photos added every week, sometimes more.
- Pickle Jar - High-resolution images of everyday india. One new image every day.
- Pixabay - Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
- Realistic Shots - 7 new photos added every week.
- Skitter Photo - Public domain pictures and stock photos for commercial use.
- Snapwire Snaps - Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world's most talented photographers.
- SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
- Splashbase - Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
- Stock Image Point - Free stock photos. 20 pictures added every month.
- Stocksnap - Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly.
- Stokpic - Free Stock Photos For Commercial Use.
- The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.
- Travel Coffee Book - Travel photography.
- Unsplash - User submitted, free high-resolution photos. 10 new photos every 10 days.
Custom License / Usage
These following photography resources are those who have declared their own usage and restriction terms. These can be found by clicking the (license) link next to the resource.
- Bara Art -
©️ The world always needs high quality photography! Here they are for you, so make something awesome out of them. - Death to the Stock Photo -
©️ Free monthly photos for all your creative needs. - Designer Pics -
©️ Free photographs for personal and commercial by Jeshu John. - Foodies Feed - Free food based images.
©️ . - Good Stock Photos -
©️ One free to use photo added everyday. - ISO Republic -
©️ ISO Republic provides exclusive free stock photos for creatives. - Kaboom Pics -
©️ Great place to get breathtaking Free Pictures for business or personal projects. - morgueFile -
©️ Free photo archive by creatives, for creatives. - Pic Jumbo -
©️ Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works. - Picography -
©️ Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like. - Shutteroo -
©️ Free high-resolution travel images. - Split Shire -
©️ Real photos for commercial use with no copyright restrictions and a real look. - Startup Stock Photos -
©️ Startup based photography. - Tookapic -
©️ Free listing from Tookapic.
Public Domain
A collection of links to public domain photography resources.
- Flickr Commons -
©️ Flickr's catalogue of the worlds public photo archives. - New Old Stock -
©️ Vintage photos from the public archive. of known copyright restrictions. - Public Domain Archive -
©️ New stock photos every single week.
Attribution Required licenses
The photographs on the following resources require Attribution unless otherwise stated on the website itself. These use a mixture of license, all of which have been linked to next to them.
- Albumarium -
©️ The "best" place to find & share beautiful images. - BucketListly - A free creative common collection of travel photos anyone can use.
- IM Creator - Also includes Website templates and icons. Some (CC0-licensed) works, check the license before use.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory -
©️ Graphics and photos of space and spaceflight. - Raumrot - (
©️ ) Handpicked stock photos for your commercial and personal works. - Superfamous -
©️ Superfamous CC BY 3.0 licensed images by Folkert Gorter. - Women of Color in Tech -
©️ Licensed picture from Women of Color in Tech.
Unspecified License
These resources haven't specified any formal terms of use or licenses.
- Freejpg - Free image bank for commercial and editorial use.
- Nobl Web - do as you please, high-resolution photos and textures.
- Peekspace - Curated free-to-use space photography.
- Re:splashed - 670 (and counting) free HD images for your web and design projects.
- Refe Real Life Photos - Free real life photos from REFE.
- Trunklog - A collection of photos from photographer Magnus Jälthammar.
Illustration
A collection of illustration resources which contain a mixture of historical archive, contemporary and public domain assets.
- British Library Illustration Archive -
©️ The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images. - Old Book Illustrations -
©️ A massive collection of illustrations from old books.
Vector Graphics
A collection of resources which contain stock graphical elements which don't fit in the other sections.
Videos
A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.
- Coverr -
©️ Beautiful, free, CC0 licensed videos for your homepage. 7 new videos every Monday. - Distill - Curated HD Video Free For Your Personal and Commercial Use. 10 free HD videos every 10 days.
- Life of Vids -
©️ Free royalty-free videos, clips & loops. - Mazwai - Great collection of free creative commons HD video clips & footages. Check each video for licensing terms.
- Pexels Videos -
©️ Completely free, CC0 licensed stock videos. - Vidsplay -
©️ Free HD stock footage (Attribution required).
Patterns
A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery - CSS3 based repeatable patterns.
- Subtle Patterns - Image based background textures and patterns.
- The Pattern Library - A collection of bold, bright and funky repeatable patterns.
- UI Gradients - Nice, subtle linear gradients to use in your designs.
Fonts
A mixture of free and open source font resources.
- Beautiful Web Type - A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
- Brick - Webfonts that actually look good.
- Debian Fonts -
©️ TTF fonts from the Debian repositories. - Font Fabric - Font Fabric's free fonts.
- Font Squirrel - Handpicked fonts free for commercial use.
- Google Fonts - Interactive directory of free hosted application programming interfaces for web fonts.
- Impallari - Libre typeface projects by Pablo Impallari.
- The League of Movable Type - Open-source type foundry.
- Type Genius - Fantastic type pairing tool.
Icons
Icon Fonts
A collection for icon font resources, most of which also include SVGs, which can be used in your interface and website designs.
- Appa Sariicon
©️ 147 8-bit retro style webfont icons for web and mobile - Batch Icons -
©️ Icon set of 300+ icons, which is part of inuit.css. - Flaticon -
©️ - Almost 100,000 icons in SVG, PNG, EPS, PSD and Webfont. Most icons are available under attribution. - Font Awesome -
©️ MIT licensed icon font. - Fontello -
©️ - Fontello is a tool to quickly pack vector images into webfonts. Also includes a section of stock icons. - Foundation Icon Fonts 3 -
©️ An icon font from Zurb, the people behind the Foundation framework. - GLYPHICONS -
©️ The free set is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license and require attribution. - IcoMoon -
©️ Custom built and crisp icon fonts, done right. - Ionicons -
©️ The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. 100% free and open source. - Ligature Symbols -
©️ Really clean icon set inlcuding all major topics. - Linea -
©️ A free outline iconset featuring 730+ Icons. - Material Design Icons -
©️ Google's Material Icons. - Octicons -
©️ GitHub's Icons. - Open Iconic -
©️ (font)©️ (icons) Icon set with 223 marks in SVG. - Social Stackicons -
©️ Icon set with over 60 social brands. - Topcoat Icons -
©️ Icons by Topcoat. - Typicons -
©️ (font)©️ (icons) Rounded icon set with 336 icons. - WeLoveIconFonts – A free & open source icon fonts hosting service (like Google Web Fonts, but icon fonts only).
Icons Packages and Collections
A collection for SVG icon resources which can be used in your interface and website designs.
- Entypo -
©️ Carefully crafted iconset by Daniel Bruce. - Geomicons Icons -
©️ Most basic icon set. - Iconmonstr -
©️ A huge selection of icons in SVG and PNG format. - Maps Icon -
©️ Mapsicon is a free collection of maps for nearly every country in the world, available in 11 different sizes, ranging from 16x16 pixels to 1024x1024 pixels, as well as .svg format. - Material Design Icons - A collections of free, material design style icons.
- Simple Icons -
©️ SVG icons for popular brands. - The Noun Project -
©️ Over 150,000 icons designed by creators from around the world. Free users must give credit to the creator.
Colors
A selection of websites offering color schemes.
- 0to255 - A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
- Bootflat - Bootflat Flat UI color picker is a project digging the Flat Color Picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
- Brand Colors - Official color codes for the world's biggest brands.
- Coleure - Simple app for grabbing & tweaking colors you see on screen.
- Color Hunt - A place to discover, create, and share color palettes.
- Colorful Gradients - Gradients automatically created by a computer. 48 times daily.
- Colour Lovers - A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns.
- Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
- Flat UI Color Picker - A copy and paste resource for colors commonly found in 'flat' designs.
- Flat UI Colors - Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
- Material Design Colors - Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
- Material Palette - Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
Aggregated Content
A liberal mixture of content aggregated from other free resources and made available at one central point.
- All The Free Stock - One stop resource for free stock images, videos, sounds and more.
- Libre Stock - Search engine for stock photo websites.
- Stock Up - Searching 9,301 (and counting) free stock photos across 25 websites.
HTML Templates
Various different websites offering free HTML templates and themes.
- Bootswatch -
©️ Free themes for Bootstrap. - HTML5 Up -
©️ HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates. - Templated -
©️ A collection of 850 free CSS and HTML5 site templates, designed & built by Cherry + AJ and released under the Creative Commons.
Sounds & Music
Free resources for stock sound and music to be used on creative projects
- Free Loops -
©️ Free loops and audio clip. - Free Music Archive -
©️ An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. - Freesound -
©️ Collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings and bleeps. - Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection -
©️ Netlabels collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable. - Jamendo -
©️ Independent music community with a large collect of creative commons licensed music. - Opsound -
©️ Free music from a community of musicians. - SoundBible -
©️ Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds.
Paid Resources
And last, but not least, a selection of the best paid stock resources.
- Adobe Stock - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors.
- Fotolia - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors, Videos.
- Inky Deals - Premium resources at insane discounts.
- Shutterstock - Photos, Vectors, Editorial, Footages, Music.
- Stocksy - "Cliché-free" Photos.
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