The best free design resources

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Whether you're a freelancer just starting his career, or you're part of the design team at a startup (you don't have the budget to buy original copies of design software) this isn't the end of the world! Just do a little research on the internet to find many free design resources that can come to your aid.

However, it must be admitted that these free images, fonts, and tools often come at a different price (they may be of low quality or - worse - stolen from paid sites!).

Luckily, our Shillington designer friends and the CreativeBoom team came up with a great list of the best free, high-quality, and reliable design resources. Whether you are looking for images, videos, fonts, or design tools, you are sure to find what you are looking for.

Free stock images

Burst

The much-loved e-commerce platform Shopify (which we talked about in the best ecommerce platforms of 2019) has launched an image store that anyone can download photos from for free, regardless of your use of the platform, and images are available in-store from low resolution to very high quality. .

StockSnap

StockSnap is known for providing the best quality images, and they are divided into different categories that you can browse with ease, so you will never have to struggle to find what you need.

Landing Stock

It is a specialized site that provides free images suitable for landing pages, the site is characterized by providing only high-quality images.

New Old Stock

Looking for an archive royalty-free photo? Then you will undoubtedly find what you want here, as Cole Townsend, product designer from Boston, has compiled a lot of them on Flickr and made them available for personal and non-commercial use.

Photo Creator

An unprecedented site idea, as it allows you to combine different images to create your unique image. You can combine your own objects, people, backgrounds, and photos using the browser drag and drop interface.

Unsplash

Unsplash is famous for its high-quality images are the product of the voluntary collective effort of photographers and designers around the world.

Pexels

In addition to the dozens of free images that you can use, pexels offers a section for paid images (which means more to you using them).

Free illustrations

Drawkit

The site provides a set of free SVG illustrations that are fully customizable.

Humaaans

Site founder Pablo Stanley has created something totally special: Human Sketches, which you can mix, rotate and reposition to create your own designs. It is licensed for both commercial and personal use.

Joe Schmoe

These are a set of avatars that web designers can use in their projects as an alternative to profile pictures.

Ouch Pics

A selection of free vector designs. It is characterized by the accuracy of its designs and its bright and modern colors. This makes them ideal for any application and website user interfaces.

Flaticon

With over 60,000 icons offered every month, I don't think you'll need to look far from Flaticon!

Lukasz Adam Free Illustrations

Lukasz Adam is a freelance web designer, who has created a collection of high-resolution illustrations and icons that are freely available. His designs can be used for both personal and commercial projects.

Free icons

Noun Project

The Noun project has more than 2 million icons, and is the product of the community of designers around the world, which is freely available for use by other designers.

Ionicons

Ionicons is a website with a library of premium icons that designers can use in web applications, smart devices (iOS / Android), and even desktop applications! The site is built by the Ionic Framework team, and all icons on it are free and open source.

Simple Icons

The site provides icons of the most famous brands (with the suffix. SVG), which are available for download for free.

Streamline Emoji

This is a free set of cute emoji, designed by Vincent Le Moign and available for free download under a Creative Common Attribution license.

Animaticons

A collection of high-resolution, customizable GIF images. It's small in size, compatible with all popular web browsers, emails, and smartphones, and it doesn't require any special plugins or libraries.

Free fonts

Google Fonts

A solid guide to designer-oriented open source web fonts. And it's all built to the high standards you expect from the web giant, Google.

Emotype

A curated set of free fonts that allow you to search based on the 'sentiments' you want to convey on your website (nice idea, right?).

BeFonts

The site offers a large selection of free fonts, including display fonts, scripts, and icons, as well as non-Western styles.

Dafont

Huge archive of free downloadable fonts. And classified in alphabetical order, in addition to the ability to filter them according to designer or popularity.

Font Squirrel

Another archive of free fonts, all of which are available for commercial use without strings attached.

Free stock videos

Coverr

An excellent source of advertising videos that can be downloaded free of charge for commercial and personal use, with no attribution required.

Mixkit

You can't believe the amazing high-quality videos and animations, designed by the world's most talented creators, until you know that Envato is behind this site!

Motion Places

Motion Places provides high-quality designs and free HD videos from all over the world. It is worth noting that all the clips listed on the site are filmed, modified and arranged by those in charge of the site. The surprising thing is that the site is completely free of ads and videos from watermarks, and you do not need to register an account in order to take advantage of its many features.

Life of Vids

Life of Vids offers free videos for web designers, filmmakers, advertisers, agencies, or anyone else who wants to take advantage of them. All are available for personal and commercial use.

Videvo

Videvo offers tons of videos which can be availed for personal and commercial use for free. The only requirement is that you attribute the Creative Commons 3.0 videos to their respective owners.

Pexels videos

Pexels videos provides designers and bloggers with whatever videos they are looking for so they can use them anywhere for free.

Free graphic design tools

GIMP

Most famous of Fire Aware, it is a completely free photo editor that provides all the tools you need to manipulate your photos. From filtering to restoration to creative manipulation, it can also be supported by third-party plugins to boost your creative career.

Pencil

Pencil is a free alternative to Adobe XD, a powerful open source tool that allows you to design “prototypes” for web, mobile and desktop applications.

Canva

Canva is surprisingly easy to use and flexible tool, and since it works via the browser, this means you can easily sync your work between different devices, but to be honest, it is not as powerful as other design software, however you can still use it for a lot of simple design tasks very efficiently. Using the drag and drop feature.

Inkscape

Free and open source software, which works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. It is distinguished by its unique ability to create vector designs.

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Thank for sharing helpful resources

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You're welcome.

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The are Really fantastic article

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Good one

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Thanks.

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oh man the humaaans one is super cool! thanks for this article! =P i am indeed jsut starting out in the internet world so this is one of those I tuck away for later XD

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I hope you get the benefit you want.

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Thanks for making an article like this resources for unlicensed images or free to use images are valuable to those trying to earn money on social media. unfortunately allot of these services are not easy to find via search engine. I'll probably check out simple icons & animaticons today.

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Yes, these are good sources so that we do not make any violations when inserting images that have copyrighted rights.

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These are really useful websites for the graphic designer and it's pretty free.

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