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.
Particularly specific resources have been labeled with their target audience, since specialized resources can either be useless for other use cases, or on the flipside can be the only ones appropriate for certain use cases. In general this page is aimed at being as medium-neutral as possible, though.
Colors
| Wada Sanzo | A Dictionary of Color Combinations. | Digital recreation of a book of color palettes |
| Design Seeds | Blog with color palettes based on photos |
| Color Palette Mayhem | A spreadsheet collecting color palettes and named colors from various sources |
| Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours | Another digital book recreation |
| Colorhunt | palettes |
| Traditional Colors of Japan | More a list of color names than anything |
| Two Color Combinations | List of hand-curated color combos |
| Lospec's Palette List | Palettes intended for pixel art |
| Colour Lovers | Also has seamless pattern generation tools |
| Happy Hues | Color palettes with previews on a site template |
| LOL Colors | |
| Colorsinspo | |
| Color Lisa | Color palettes sampled from famous artworks |
| Th Hydrant Directory |
Fonts
| Velvetyne | Foundry |
| Velvetyne's Libre Friends | Page on the previous site highlighting other free type foundries |
| The Planet | Foundry |
| BV Fonts | Foundry, paid/free mix |
| BitfontMaker2 | Pixel font creator with a gallery. The gallery can be filtered by license. |
| Collletttivo | Foundry |
| Caveras | Foundry, focused on recreating game fonts |
| Disaster Fonts | Foundry |
| Act Select Replica Fonts | Foundry, focused on recreating fonts from Sega media |
| Old School PC Fonts | Exactly as it says. |
| Iconian Fonts | Foundry |
| Some Free Fonts | Foundry |
| Fonderie | Foundry |
| Blambot | Foundry. Fonts and other resources for comics. Free/paid mix |
| Atkinson Hyperlegible | Single font, created specially to be easy to read |
| Font End Dev | Foundry, pixel fonts |
| FontStruct | Font creation tool, has a gallery of fonts people have made with it, can be filtered by license |
| Relay Fonts | Foundry |
| exljbris | Foundry, paid/free mix |
| Divide by Zero | Foundry |
| Caffeen | Foundry |
| Flood Fonts | Foundry, paid/free mix |
| Junicode | Single font, provides coverage for characters present in older forms of some european languages |
| Postmodern Village | Foundry |
| Fontalicious | Foundry |
| Omnibus Type | Foundry |
| 0xtype | Foundry |
| League of Movable Type | Foundry |
| Varian's Dreamfonts | Foundry |
| Tunera | Foundry |
| Alfredo Marco Pradil | Foundry |
| Undercase Type | Foundry |
| Catpixel's Curiously Chunky Pixel Fonts | Pack of fonts from a single creator |
| Catpixel's Pixel Fonts 2 | Pack of fonts from a single creator |
| Primary | |
| Ikewise | foundry, pixel fonts, mostly based on existing media |
| Lato Fonts | Font family |
| Sara's Fonts | foundry, pay what you want |
| Richard Polt Typewriter Fonts | Foundry |
| Quiple | |
| Leon Sans | Single font, made to be customized using html canvases |
Aggregators
Be sure to click through to the original creator and check their terms of use!
| Font Squirrel | |
| Fontspace | |
| 1001 Fonts | |
| Urban Fonts | |
| Dafont | |
| Variable Fonts | Lets you try out the font's variable features |
| Google Fonts | (You can download them, you don't have to embed them from google) |
| Fontasy | |
| Fancy Fonts | |
| Fontriver | |
| UNCUT | |
| Font Library | |
| Fontspring | has both paid and free |
| Fonts2u | |
| Open Foundry | An aggregator, ironically |
| Font Freak | |
| Fontesk | |
| Fontshare | Aggregator, but is run by one of the featured foundries |
| Abstract Fonts | |
| 1001 Free Fonts | |
| Free Fonts Pro | |
| Fontain | Specifically libre fonts |
| Pousse ta fonte | Font sites rather than fonts |
| wfonts | |
| Fontbolt | List of various logo fonts, with suggested free alternatives |
| Befonts | |
| Just Free Fonts | |
| Font Meme |
Images
Seamless Tiles
| Pattern Ninja | Tiling pattern creation tool |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Share Textures | Textures and models |
| Hill House - Materials for you | Broad range of website assets beyond just backgrounds |
| Background Tiles | |
| Hekate2 Background generator | |
| Frugal Gamer | many different types of graphics |
| Stripe Generator | |
| Tessisamess's Patterns Directory | Transparent tiled backgrounds |
| Pattern Cooler | |
| Realm Graphics | Includes other varieties of graphics as well |
| 3quarks Bakground Patterns | |
| The Fat Strawberry | |
| The Pattern Library | |
| grsites assets | Assets taken from a defunct site that offered them for site building |
| architextures | Also allows you to edit the textures |
| Pixelmoondust's F2U Goodies | Several different categories |
| Beaubus Patterns |
Backgrounds & Textures
| Texture Ninja | |
| Texture Labs | |
| Salvaged.nu | Archived graphic design assets from old defunct blogs |
| Appendix Squared | |
| Minty Oh's Scanned Papers | |
| Screentones | Screentones, texture brushes, etc. |
| Texture Station | |
| Printable Paper | |
| anniemation | |
| Textures.com | paid/free mix. Also has other 3D related content, like tutorials |
| Textures-2-go | |
| Pixeden | |
| TextureKing |
Illustrations & Clipart
| Public Domain Image Archive | Curated archive of public domain images. maintained by The Public Domain Review |
| Irasutoya | |
| Favicon.cc | Favicon creator and gallery |
| Open Game Art | Game assets of every kind imaginable |
| Divergent Rays's Linkware Archive | Properly sourced retro web graphics |
| Mazeguy's Smilies | |
| cursor.cc | Cursor designer and gallery |
| Manuscript Miniatures | Small pieces of medieval art |
| Public Domain Treasures | |
| Graphxkingdom | |
| Humanities Illustration Library | |
| MS Clipart Collection | |
| Antique Clipart | |
| Graphic Garden | |
| Heritage Type Illustration Library | |
| Hypercard art bits | |
| Rabbitnet's Stash |
Icons
| Visiwig | SVGs, a lot of it is paid but not all |
| R.V. Klein | Icon fonts |
| Remix Icons | |
| Mobirise Icons | |
| Icon SVG | |
| Icofont | |
| Foundation Icon Fonts | |
| Weather Icons | |
| Linear Icons | |
| Akar Icons | |
| Feather Icons | |
| Ikonate | |
| gcons | |
| Glyphs | |
| Iconic | |
| Emblem Icons |
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 | |
| 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 | |
| Spillphoto Archive | |
| Muscle Plus | Buff shirtless guys doing goofy photoshoots |
| 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, theposearchives. |
| Free Images | |
| Animal Photo Reference Repository | |
| Pose Search | Search for poses by manipulating a skeleton |
| Picryl | Searches public domain images |
| Image After | Default ad blocker lists miss a lot on this site, but they seem non-malicious at least |
| Free Images | Seemingly unrelated to the other site of the same name? |
| Burning Well | |
| Pics 4 Learning | |
| The Pic Pac | Pay what you want |
| Shotstash | |
| Photo Everywhere | |
| Imagebase | |
| FOCA Stock | |
| My Stock Photos | |
| RGB Stock | |
| Magdeleine | |
| Libreshot | |
| Negative Space | |
| Kaboom Pics | |
| Stock Image Point | |
| Stockarch | |
| Stock Vault | |
| Stock Free Images | |
| Picography | |
| Jookpub Stock | Intended for art reference |
| ISO Republic | |
| Free Stocks | |
| Lunaticker's Free Use Photo Resources Collection | |
| Flickr Commons | Flickr accounts belonging to various archives and other similar institutions |
| Images of Empowerment | |
| Allgo | |
| Disabled and Here Collection | |
| Free Nature Stock | |
| ISS Photo Explorer |
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 | |
| Poly Haven | |
| Mr. Furniture | Paid/free mix |
| Textures.com | paid/free mix. Also has other 3D related content, like tutorials |
| Smithsonian 3D Digitization | |
| AmbientCG | All sorts of 3D assets |
Audio
Sound Effects
| GameAudioGDC | |
| Yellowstone Park Sound Library | |
| BBC Rewind Sound Effects Archive | |
| Sounds of the Forest | |
| FreakyFwoof Shorts | |
| Soundgator |
Music
| Kevin Macleod | Also has printable graph paper |
| Bensound | |
| Josh Woodward | |
| King James | |
| Kongano | |
| Tim Beek | |
| Tim Kulig | |
| Jason Shaw | |
| mobygratis | |
| Loyalty Freak Music | |
| Saga Musix | |
| NCS | |
| Sound Image | Music, textures, sound effects |
| Unminus | |
| Sounds Like an Earful | |
| Free Music Archive |
Soundfonts, Modules, Samples, etc.
| The Mod Archive | |
| Midkar | |
| RKhive | |
| Looperman |
Video
| Vidsplay | |
| Beachfront B-roll | |
| Cute Stock Footage | |
| Free Stock Footage Archive | Effects, mostly |
Website Creation
Layouts and Styling
Scripts and Widgets
| Protected | Demonstration of a really clever way to make password protected pages. Uses javascript, but it's relatively obvious how to make a noscript version for visitors with JS disabled. |
| Freeframe.js Tutorial | Tutorial on how to implement a script that allows users to play and pause gifs |
| RSS Tutorial | Guide on adding an RSS feed to your site |
| Unsupported files on Neocities | Extremely cursed way to circumvent Neocities filetype restrictions |
| RSS 2 HTML | |
| Bloggable | Interesting little embeddable blog widget |
| Vanilla JavaScript Repository | |
| Solaria's Guides | |
| JS Slide Presentation |
Misc.
| Place Cats | Placeholder images of cats |
| Place Dog | Placeholder images of dogs |
| Lorem Ipsum | Lorem Ipsum generator with a large amount of options |
| Lorem Picsum | More varied placeholder images |
| Placehold | very basic placeholder images |