Tools and Toys
Tools of extremely varying usefulness. Mostly Webapps
Images
| Quickposes | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Sketchdaily | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Combine Images | limited to up to a 3x3 square |
| Magma | Collaborative drawing |
| Yippe | lets you make 16x16 pixelart that encodes itself into the url |
| Lowpoly Generator | Makes mosaic-like images from either a palette or an uploaded image |
| Clipping Magic | Background removal tool, best of its kind short of doing it yourself with a layer mask in a graphis editor. Image exports are limited in size but can be servicably large if the original image is big enough |
| The JPEG Zone | Deep-fried JPEGs |
| Ezgif | Animated GIF editor |
| imgops | Really a directory of tools, but it forwards your image to the tool you select (reverse image search, editing, upload, etc.) |
| Dithermark | My preferred dithering&posterization tool |
| Pal | 8 color posterization |
| mewLAB | simple drawing application making use of the LAB colorspace |
| Squidge Image Hosting | Fandom-centric image hosting. Very large max size. Explicitly allow NSFW as long as it is fandom-related and does not depict an underage character. |
| Avocado Ibuprofen Paint | Funky black and white drawing app |
| IMG Online | JPEG Metadata editing, has other tools if you poke around |
| Gridzzly | Custom grid paper generator |
| Post Images | Image hosting, fairly loose terms of use |
| Image Online | Various small image tools. It's a different site than img online... |
| Online Image Editor | Very Blingee adjacent |
| Untitled Tile Painter | |
| imgbox | Image host |
| Escher Sketch | Symmetry art |
| Kleki | Online drawing thing |
| Favicon.cc | Favicon creator and gallery |
Text
| Ellipsus | collaborative writing |
| 750 Words | Digital morning pages |
| One Word | One word prompt, one minute time limit |
| Shape Catcher | Search unicode characters by drawing them |
| Ohwrite | Low pressure word sprints |
| Text Color Fader | Generates gradient markup for sites where that's applicable |
| Little Webby Press | Like a SSG but for ebooks (okay, it also makes a site as a two-for-one deal) |
| Cipher Tools | Information about and web implementations of various ciphers |
| ASCII Flow | ASCII art helper |
| L-Lists | Collaborative list making |
| Online Tools - Find Duplicate List Items | This site is extremely annoying but unfortunately has actual functional and useful tools |
| Vivliostyle | CSS typesetting |
| Wordsprints | |
| Regexr | Really good interface for tinkering with building a regex pattern |
| WordCounter | |
| I Love PDF | PDF editing |
| Seventh Sanctum | Random name generators and similar |
Video
| Lossless Cut | Shorten videos without re-encoding |
| Video Cropper | |
| Videogrep | Lets you clip out all instances of a certain word or phrase from a video |
Downloading
| Line Sticker Ripper | Can get out of region sticker packs |
| Cobalt | image/video/audio from various sources |
Social Media
| Slurp | Better data imports for Masodon-compatible software |
| Fossilphant | SSG for your social media exports (supports mastodon and bluesky, may support other mastodon-compatible software if the format is similar enough?) |
| Mastodon Data Viewer | viewing interface for Mastodon data exports, particularly large ones |
| Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! | Art bot creation platform for Mastodon |
Website Creation & Maintenance
| Dead Link Checker | Manual scans are free, but automated are paid |
| HTML Cleaner | Assorted HTML processing. Can strip inline styles |
| Hotglue | Particularly charming visual web page builder |
| Pagefind | Site search for your static site |
| WAVE Accessibility Checker | Helps you check for accessibility issues with your site. |
| CSS Analyzer | |
| Pages.gay | One of many static site hosts |
| Super Designer | Lots of tools for web design, many of which are for generating backgrounds using pure CSS or SVGs |
| Fancy Border Radius Generator | Helps you make really weird shapes with CSS |
| Zonelets | System for making a blog on a static site, makes heavy use of JS |
| CSS Gradient | Generates code for CSS gradients for you |
Fonts & Typography
| Wordmark | Quick font previewing |
| Variable Fonts | |
| What the Font | Font identification |
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 |
Time & Scheduling
| Seasonal Clock | |
| Internet Time | Simple tools relating to swatch internet time |