Tools and Toys
Tools of extremely varying usefulness. Mostly Webapps
Images
| Combine Images | limited to up to a 3x3 square |
| 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 |
| 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.) |
| IMG Online | JPEG Metadata editing, has other tools if you poke around |
| Gridzzly | Custom grid paper generator |
| Image Online | Various small image tools. It's a different site than img online... |
| Online Image Editor | Very Blingee adjacent |
| Web GB Came | Web app replication of the Gameboy camera |
| Seamless Pattern Checker | |
| Trace.moe | Finds the anime a screenshot is from |
| PicMix | Another modern Blingee-like |
| Photopea | Online photoshop clone. Kinda jank but it opens file formats you wouldn't expect it to and has a decent text tool if you don't have access to desktop software with a good text tool. |
| Picasion | Lets you turn set of static images into a gif |
| Bulk Resize Photos | |
| BIRME | Bulk image resizing |
| Foto Flexer | |
| Pattern Monster | |
| Lunapic |
Effects
| The JPEG Zone | Deep-fried JPEGs |
| Dithermark | My preferred dithering&posterization tool |
| Pal | 8 color posterization |
| Ditherer | |
| Ordered Dither Maker | Black&white dithering tool that gives you a LOT of control over the process, including making your own dithering patterns |
| Play Dither | |
| Autotracer | A color vector generator. It has a lot of trouble handling poorly suited images, but the effect is honestly charming imho. |
| Dither Image Online | Uses a gradient map |
| Vectorization | B&W vector generator |
| Dither Studio | |
| GB Pic | Make an image look like it was shot on a gameboy camera. Interface is in Japanese |
| Image Glitch Tool | |
| Dither It | |
| Sora's Pixel Converter | Neat usage of posterization and downsampling to create a pixel art effect. Has a small amount of editing tools to clean up or add thamtically appropriate stickers. |
Drawing & Painting
| Quickposes | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Sketchdaily | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Magma | Collaborative drawing |
| Yippe | lets you make 16x16 pixelart that encodes itself into the url |
| mewLAB | simple drawing application making use of the LAB colorspace |
| Avocado Ibuprofen Paint | Funky black and white drawing app |
| Untitled Tile Painter | |
| Escher Sketch | Symmetry art |
| Kleki | Online drawing thing |
| Favicon.cc | Favicon creator and gallery |
| Pixilart | Online low res art tool |
| Photopea | Online photoshop clone. Kinda jank but it opens file formats you wouldn't expect it to and has a decent text tool if you don't have access to desktop software with a good text tool. |
| Piskel | Pixel art editor, seems animation focused |
| Weave Silk | |
| JS KidPix | |
| Paint Toys | |
| cursor.cc | Cursor designer 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 |
| Text Colorizer | Another tool that 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 |
| Pandoc | Browser version of Pandoc, for easy document conversion |
| Text Mechanic | Various text manipulation tools |
| IT Tools | Small data manipulation tools aimed at developers |
| Cyber Chef | Small data manipulation tools aimed at developers |
| Defuddle | Gets you a page's main content as markdown, like a sort of readability mode. Apparently for Youtube videos, it'll get you the subtitles? |
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 |
| Activity Bot | Activitypub bot with built-in server |
| Posty | Turns a mastodon archive into a static site |
Website Creation & Maintenance
| CSS Generators | Various CSS effects, including pure CSS backgrounds |
| CSS Pattern Generator | More pure CSS patterns |
| CSS Gradient Generator | |
| Dead Link Checker | Manual scans are free, but automated are paid |
| HTML Cleaner | Assorted HTML processing. Can strip inline styles |
| Pagefind | Site search for your static site |
| WAVE Accessibility Checker | Helps you check for accessibility issues with your site. |
| CSS Analyzer | |
| 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 |
| Favicon.cc | Favicon creator and gallery |
| Patternify | Base64-encoded pixel background maker. Comes with a few defaults to work off of |
| Webdesign Assistant | A bunch of CSS helpers and JS scripts, has a background generator that lets you play with transparent textures |
| Colorzilla Gradient Editor | CSS gradient helper, has some weird and neat things like the ability to upload an image which it will then attempt to make a gradient out of |
| Bennett Feely | A couple of site helpers and toys. Has a CSS clipping path generator and CSS-only backgrounds. |
| HTML Color Picker | Color picker that outputs color codes compatible with CSS |
| Dr. Link Check | another dead link checker with different limits |
| Doodle Nerd | assorted, design focused |
| Contrast Triangle | Contrast checker for sites that remove underlines from their links |
| Image Map Generator | |
| RuSShdown | Helps generate an RSS feed for your site |
| WebAIM Contrast Checker | |
| CSS Warp | CSS Text paths |
| Who Can Use | Simulates various vision problems so you can get a better idea of how bad your color scheme is |
| cursor.cc | Cursor designer and gallery |
Fonts & Typography
| Wordmark | Quick font previewing |
| Variable Fonts | Aggregator, lets you try out the font's variable features |
| What the Font | Font identification |
| FontDrop | |
| Everything Fonts | Miscellaneous small font tools |
| Bit Fontmaker2 | Pixel font creator with a gallery. The gallery can be filtered by license. |
| Fount | Tells you what font your browser is displaying, even if its not what the site intends for you to see |
| CSS Warp | CSS Text paths |
| Calligraphr | Fonts from handwriting, free version limits the amount of characters |
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 | |
| Lospec's Palette List | Palettes intended for pixel art |
| Pro Color Harmonies | Weird palette creation toy |
| Colour Lovers | Also has seamless pattern generation tools |
| Palette Generator | |
| WebAIM Contrast Checker | |
| Who Can Use | Simulates various vision problems so you can get a better idea of how bad your color scheme is |
| Random a11y | Random colorscheme that meets minimum contrast recommendations. Some may still be difficult to look at. |
| Happy Hues | Color palettes with previews on a site template |
Time & Scheduling
| Seasonal Clock | |
| Internet Time | Simple tools relating to swatch internet time |
| Decimal Internet Time | An attempt to make a more neutral universal time system |
| Discord Timestamp Generator |