There are tons of free content on the internet, but we have selected the very best websites where you can enjoy free resources and create interesting designs without spending a cent.
We try to put as many free things on our website as possible so that you can find what is useful for you and what is best for your graphic designs. So we have put together 45 websites from various categories. We believe that it will be very helpful for you.
Without further ado, let’s move on to the list:
Free Stock Images
Unsplash
Unsplash is a photo archive site run by a friendly community of photographers. They all upload photos for free, which you can download and use under a free license. A must-have space for any discerning designer.
Pexels
When it comes to free stock photo sites, we think Pexels is one of the best. With a community of photographers and videographers who generously donate their work for everyone to download and use for free, it’s also a first responder to current events and provides the images everyone might need to illustrate their current projects.
Nappy
As creators, it’s our responsibility to ensure that our work is diverse and inclusive, representing all of society. Nappy is a relative newcomer to the free stock photo site market, offering “beautiful, high-resolution photos of black and dark-skinned people for free.”
StockSnap
Known for its high-quality royalty-free images, StockSnap offers a variety of different categories to browse, so you’ll never have a hard time finding what you’re looking for. Attribution is not required, but is always appreciated.
Free Illustrations
Humaaans
With Humaaans, Pablo Stanley has created something special: modular, vector illustrations of people that you can mix, match, rotate, and arrange to create your own designs. Everything you create is free for both personal and commercial use.
UnDraw
Describing itself as “open source illustration for any idea you can imagine and create,” unDraw is a constantly updated design project with beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution.
Open Peeps
Need something more hand-drawn? Open Peeps is the illustration library for your needs. Open source panel SVG and PNG assets created by Pablo Stanley are available for Sketch, Figma, Studio, and XD.
Storytale
Storytale is a subscription-based illustration site. However, if you don’t want to pay, you can also find a lot of free illustrations here, collected under the “Free Illustrations” tab. Their selection of vector illustrations for use on a 404 error page is particularly nice.
Free Icons
The Noun Project
The Noun Project, founded by Sofia Polyakov, Edward Boatman, and Scott Thomas, brings together over two million curated icons created by a global community that designers can use for free.
Ionicons
Ionicons are premium icons for designers to use in web, iOS, Android, and desktop applications. Created by the Ionic Framework team, they are all free and open source.
Simple Icons
Founded by Dan Leech, Simple Icons offers free SVG icons for popular brands that are available for free download.
Icons8
Large icon packs of over 10k icons, so you can find visually consistent icons for all your designs. This site gives you a whole library of free icons in PNG and SVG.
Free Fonts
Google Fonts
An intuitive and reliable catalog of open source web fonts that designers can use however they want, all built to the high standards you’d expect from a web giant like Google.
Velvetyne
Velvetyne is a French font foundry founded in 2010 by designer Frank Adebiaye. Since then, they have been creating and distributing free, open source fonts. Now, Velvetyne is a team of 10 font designers with a font to suit every mood and every project.
Fontfabric
Fontfabric is a digital font foundry that creates retail fonts and custom typography for a variety of brands. They also offer a generous selection of free fonts for anyone to download and use. There are many more to browse and try out on their beautifully designed website.
Use & Modify
Use & Modify is a personal selection of “classic, punk, professional, incomplete, and weird fonts.” It features open source fonts that are free to use and modify.
The League of Moveable Type
Calling themselves the first open source font developer, “The League of Moveable Type” was founded in 2009 to help raise the standards of web design. All of their fonts are free to use however and wherever you need them.
Free Stock Videos
Coverr
Coverr is a source of perfectly shot videos that are free to download for personal and commercial use without requiring attribution.
Mixkit
Powered by Envato, Mixkit is a curated gallery of high-quality videos and animations created by the world’s most talented creators, and all content is licensed for free.
Life of Vids
Life of Vids offers free videos for website designers, filmmakers, advertisers, agencies, or anyone else who might need them. Most of them allow you to create endless loops, and they are all downloadable for both personal and commercial use.
Free Graphic Design Tools
Adobe Express
Formerly known as Adobe Spark, Adobe Express is a free, stripped-down version of Adobe’s full Creative Cloud offering. Adobe Express is a great graphic design tool for both experienced designers and beginners.
Fontjoy
It’s easy to stick with the same old font combinations over and over again. But if that’s starting to make your design work look dated, here’s a great way to make a change. Fontjoy uses deep learning to create new and original font combinations for you.
Blender
Blender is a free, open-source 3D graphics development package. This amazing platform supports all your 3D needs – modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game development.
Coolors
Coolors is a free color palette generator that can create a color palette from a color of your choice in seconds or less. Available as an app for iOS and Android, as well as a Figma plugin and Chrome extension, you’ll never have an excuse not to have the perfect palettes.
Inkscape
Inkscape is a professional-quality vector graphics software developed by a non-profit organization that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. It is open source and free to download.
Pictochart
Piktochart is a free online design platform designed primarily for creating infographics. Using templates, users can quickly create professional infographics that will help them transform their data into something perfect. It can also be used to create presentations and videos.
Brandpad
Brandpad is a free tool that helps designers create strong, conceptual, and functional brand guidelines. This cloud-based platform lets you do everything from asset creation to sharing and consumption in one place.
VistaCreate
VistaCreate is a free online graphic design platform that has everything you need for social media, making it easy to create anything for Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and more. Templates, audio, asset library, or simple animation.
Free AI Graphic Design Tools
Seamless Studio
If you want AI-powered mockups, Seamless Studio could be your new best tool. This free AI tool for graphic designers uses AI to automatically create the highest quality mockups for your design projects, giving you more time to be creative.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a free AI chatbot and search bot. While it’s not specifically designed for graphic designers, creatives can use it for idea generation, storytelling, and word association, as well as for writing longer articles.
Rytr
If you’re a disciplined graphic designer and a great writer, you’re in luck. If not, there are free AI-powered writing tools for graphic designers. Rytr is one of them, allowing designers to generate magazine articles, brand stories, and more in seconds. The free plan lets you generate up to 10,000 characters per month.
NightCafe
Named after a painting by real-life artist Vincent van Gogh, NightCafe is a free artificial intelligence image generation tool that graphic designers can use to create artwork in their designs.
Free Mockup Tools
Pixelbuddha
In Pixelbuddha you can find a lot of free mockup templates. This online portal has something to offer even the most demanding graphic designer and not only mockups. Enjoy free photo effects, add-ons, fonts, texts and more.
Screely
Screely lets you instantly turn a screenshot into a mockup without the need for Sketch or Photoshop templates. Simply upload your image and the app will do the rest.
MockupBro
A free online product mockup generator. Just upload your graphic to a selected mockup and generate your own design in seconds. It’s easy to download and the tool is free to use.
Free Image Editing Tools
Remove
Need to remove the background from a photo? This free tool can do it surprisingly quickly and with just one click.
Social Sizes
Created by Peter Assentorp, Social Sizes provides designers with the best sizes to use for image and video content on social media. It includes Sketch, Adobe XD, and Photoshop templates that are free to download.
Pixlr Express
Pixlr Express has long been a simple but reliable photo editor that’s free to use in your browser. AI powered. It’s now a paid app, but you can still get most of its features for free.
Fotor
“Fotor” is not just a “design tool”, but also a photo editor that lets you crop, rotate, fine-tune, colorize, resize, or add effects to any image – all in a browser window. You can also create photo collages.
Free Screenshot Tools
Giphy Capture
This free Mac app makes it easy to capture portions of your screen and export them as GIFs or MP4 files. Capture GIFs up to 30 seconds long with just a few clicks.
Collabshot
This web and desktop app lets you quickly take screenshots and share URLs with colleagues, as well as draw and sketch live, with multiple people at once.
Go Full Page
The most reliable full page screenshot in just a single click. This browser extension allows you to screengrab everything on the page, including both the part on your screen and the part below it easily.
Design Inspiration
Httpster
Httpster is an inspiration source showcasing website designs from around the world. The focus is not on flashy features but on a “less is more” approach to design.
Fonts in Use
When you see a font on a font maker’s website, it’s often hard to imagine how it will work in practice. Come in to a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and time period. Search for the font you want and you’ll see a variety of examples of how it’s been used in practice, from graphic design to film and television.
Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo covers everything from logo design to full brand identity creation. This group of designers presents various design and branding concepts, showing how they have been applied.
