Resources
Be sure to check around for the terms of use before using any of these for more than just inspiration! Many of them allow fairly free usage, but not all, and some may have stricter policies than you expect.
Colors
| oklch.fyi | Information about the oklch colorspace, along with a few tools related to it. |
| Wada Sanzo | A Dictionary of Color Combinations. | Digital recreation of a book of color palettes |
| Sessions.edu Color Palette Generator | |
| Coolors | Color palette generator |
| Adobe Colors | |
| Design Seeds | Blog with color palettes based on photos |
| Handprint - Watercolors | Color theory, mostly focused on watercolor painting |
| Color Palette Mayhem | A spreadsheet collecting color palettes and named colors from various sources |
| Paletton | Color palette generator |
| Color Designer | |
| Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours | Another digital book recreation |
| Colorhunt | palettes |
| Golden Paint Mixer | Simulates acryllic paint mixing using real paint colors. Only works in chrome-based browsers? |
| Traditional Colors of Japan | More a list of color names than anything |
| HTML Color Codes | Color picker that gives you all relevant formats for CSS |
| ColorSpace | Automatic palette based on single color |
| Two Color Combinations | List of hand-curated color combos |
| Image Color Picker |
Fonts
| Font Squirrel | |
| Velvetyne | |
| Velvetyne's Libre Friends | Page on the previous site highlighting other free type foundries |
| Fontspace | |
| 1001 Fonts | |
| Urban Fonts | |
| Dafont | |
| Variable Fonts | |
| Google Fonts | |
| The Planet | |
| BV Fonts | |
| Fontasy | |
| Fancy Fonts | |
| Highfonts | |
| Fontriver |
Images
Patterns & Textures
| Pattern Ninja | Tiling pattern creation tool |
| CSS Generators | Various CSS effects, including pure CSS backgrounds |
| Texture Town | VERY overwhelming to look at, but very cool; the patterns can be previewed on 3D models |
| Tilemancer | Tiling pattern generator aimed at retro-styled backgrounds for sites |
| Tiny Backgrounds | Warning: some are animated |
| Matt Horn's Assets | Free and cheap seamless textures. Some were included in some of the large charity bundles, so chances are you have some. |
| Transparent Textures | This sub-site uses a background from here! |
| Doodad.dev Pattern Generator | Seamless pattern generator. Check out their other tools, too! |
| Subtle Patterns | |
| Texture Ninja | has clipart style texture too, not just patterns |
| Texture Labs | |
| Salvaged.nu | Archived graphic design assets from old defunct blogs |
| Appendix Squared | |
| Share Textures | Textures and models |
| Hill House - Materials for you | Broad range of website assets beyond just backgrounds |
| CSS Pattern Generator | More pure CSS patterns |
| CSS Gradient Generator | |
| Minty Oh's Scanned Papers | |
| Screentones | Screentones, texture brushes, etc. |
| Super Designer | Lots of tools for web design, many of which are for generating backgrounds using pure CSS or SVGs |
Illustrations & Clipart
| Open Clipart | |
| ClipArt ETC | Primarily intended for classroom usage |
| Visiwig | SVGs, a lot of it is paid but not all |
| The Noun Project | also has stock photos |
| Undraw | |
| Irasutoya | |
| Openmoji | |
| Public Domain Vectors | |
| Favicon.cc | Favicon creator and gallery |
Photos
| Getty Open Content Program | |
| Unsplash | |
| Wordpress Photo Directory | |
| Pixabay | |
| Openverse | |
| glorious LCDs | Macro photography of lcd screens |
| Line of Action | Reference photos for art |
| Animal Photo Art References Search | Lets you search by both species and head direction |
| Faestock | Mostly fantasy themed |
| Stocksnap | |
| FreeImages | |
| Quickposes | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Sketchdaily | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Adorkastock | focused on dramatic poses |
| Nappy | |
| Pexels | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Reference Angle | Similar to the animal reference search site, but for humans |
| Spillphoto Archive | |
| Muscle Plus | Buff shirtless guys doing goofy photoshoots |
| Photovault | |
| 3D sk | Intended as art reference |
| Deviantart | There's a Lot of stock photography on Deviantart. I was going to link individual accounts and then realized that it would more than triple the size of this already long list. Some account names I had down: themalenudestock, nighty-stock, artmatrix-stock, seductive-stock, guitarjohnny. |
| Free Images |
3D Models
| Makerworld | |
| Pose My Art | Intended for art reference |
| Figurosity | Intended for art reference |
| Magic Poser | Intended for art reference |
| Just Sketch Me | Intended for art reference |
| Design Doll | Intended for art reference |
| Thingiverse | Intended for 3D printing |
| Embody 3D | Medical focus, intended for 3D printing. |
| Posemaniacs | Intended for art reference. Also has photos. |
| NIH 3D | More medical models |
| Sketchfab | |
| Morphosource |
Audio
Sound Effects
| GameAudioGDC | |
| Yellowstone Park Sound Library | |
| BBC Rewind Sound Effects Archive |
Music
| Kevin Macleod | Also has printable graph paper |
| Bensound | |
| Josh Woodward | |
| King James | |
| Kongano | |
| Tim Beek | |
| Jason Shaw |
Website Creation & Maintenance
| CSS Generators | Various CSS effects, including pure CSS backgrounds |
| Protected | Demonstration of a really clever way to make password protected pages. Uses javascript, but it's trivially obvious how to make a noscript version for visitors with JS disabled. |
| Place Cats | Placeholder images of cats |
| Place Dog | Placeholder images of dogs |
| Loveberry |