Design Resources

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I'll attempt to keep this updated as much as I can, but there are quite a few resources out there I think a lot of designers would do quite well with having.

Have I mentioned the best part that they're free?

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.
  

PLUGINS

• https://flawlessapp.io/designplugins - A list of curated plugins for sketch and figma.
  

SHAPE GENERATORS

• https://www.blobmaker.app/ - Organic blob generator, you can generate as .svgs.
  
• https://getwaves.io/ - Generate "waves" as svgs.
  

MISC.

• https://vgy.me - I personally use this imageuploader, it's lovely and all around neat.
  
• https://uploadfiles.io/ - 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.
  
• https://rapidgrab.net/ - I haven't personally used this website, but it looks like a good alternative for vgy.me.
  

If you have something you'd like to contribute, do post as well. This is my personal list of resources and there's quite a few more that I will add as soon as I remember them.

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