200+ Free Design Resources for Startups

Fonts + Typography

• TypeGenius: Find the perfect font combo for your next project. Font pairing generator.

• Font Squirrel: The mother of all font websites. 100% free commercial use fonts.

• FontFaceNinja: Browser extension to find the web fonts a site uses.

• Free Goodies For Designers: A set of custom-made fonts with a unique style, free for commercial use.

• Google Fonts: Library of 800 licensed fonts. Free to use, open-source & optimised for the web.

• FontFabric: Collection of quality fonts, site contains 90 free fonts for personal and commercial use.

• Beautiful Web Type: Best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.

• DaFont: Archive of free fully downloadable fonts.

• MediaLoot: Presents a good set of unique fonts to add to your design resource bookmarks.

• 1001 Free Fonts: wide selection of free fonts to make websites user-friendly and visually appealing.

• Adobe Edge Fonts: Powered by Adobe Typekit, free & easy to get started with web fonts.

• Font-to-width: This source contains fit pieces of texts that are neatly within their containers

• FontPark: The web’s largest archive of free fonts for commercial and noncommercial applications.

Icons

• Fontello: Icon fonts generator. Generates icon font packs.

• Flat Icon: This is a search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons

• Material Design Icons: Offers 750 open-source glyphs by Google that are free.

• Font Awesome: The best resource for iconic font and CSS toolkit.

• Glyphsearch: This is meant to help you search for icons from other icon databases.

• MakeAppIcon: With just a simple click, you can already have app icons of all icons.

• Endless Icons: Offers free flat icons and other creative stuff.

• Ico Moon: This is an icon generator that can generate 4000+ free vector icons.

• The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.

• Perfect Icons: A perfect tool for social icon creation.

• Icon Finder: Offers a set of 171 social icons free for commercial use

• Free Round Icons: Doodle Set | Flat Set | Vector Line Set

Stock Photos

• Pexels: Many free photos in one place plus 10 new free stock photos every day.

• All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.

• Stock Up: Search over 9,000 photos from 26 different websites, all in one place.

• Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos. 

• Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi-res photos & videos.

• Startup Stock Photos: Everything you need to create a great startup design.

• Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images in your inbox every 7 days.

• Splitshire: Great library of artsy stock photos & videos.

• New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.

• Picjumbo: Great image database with lots of different images from a list of categories.

• Life of Pix: Free high-resolution photos, share freely.

• Gratisography: Free high-resolution photos for personal & commercial use.

• Jay Mantri: Free pics of outdoor, landscape & cityscapes. Do anything (CC0). Make magic.

• Travel Coffee Book: Sharing beautiful travel moments.

• Designers Pics: Free photographs of everyday objects for personal & commercial use.

• Death to Stock: Artist Owned Co-op, authentic stock photos and videos, sent every month.

• Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.

• Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.

• Pixabay: 2m+ free images & royalty free stock

• Free Food Photos: A mouth-watering collection of food photography, CC 3.0 license

• Snapographic: Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.

• Cupcake: Free, high-res photos. A photographer’s treat by Jonas Nilsson Lee.

• ISO Republic: High-quality, free photos for creatives.

• Kaboompics: The best way to get free photos.

Colour Palette Pickers

• 0 to 255: A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any colour.

• Adobe Colour: A cool colour wheel, themes, and palette planner free from Adobe

• Adaptive Backgrounds: Extract dominant colours from images.

• Brand Colors: Colours used by famous brands.

• Bootflat: Perfect colours for flat designs. Flat colour picker.

• Colour Lovers: Create & share colours, palettes, and patterns.

• Coolors: Super fast colour schemes generator for cool designers.

• Colorful Gradients: Gradients automatically created by a computer.

• Flat UI Colors: A must-download for the believers of the flat design. Beautiful flat colours.

• Get UI Colors: Get awesome UI colours.

• Hex Colorrrs: Hex to RGB converter.

• Material UI Colors: Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.

• Material Palette: Generate and export the colour palette of your material design.

• New Flat UI Color Picker: Best flat colours for UI design. 

• Paletton: Start with any colour and get a palette based on different patterns.

• Palette Creator: For web designers to create a colour palette extracted from any image.

• Skala Color: An extraordinary colour picker for designers and developers.

• SchemeColor: Many free colour schemes to choose from & search.

Logo Makers

• LogoTypeMaker: Super generic logo maker, for your first throwaway logo

• Brandmark: logo & brand creator, better quality

• Looka: logo & brand generator, best quality

Slides, Charts & Infographics

• Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for anyone.

• ChartGo: Easy-to-create basic bar, line and pie charts for use in blogs and infographics

• Infographia: Technically not free but $49 lifetime access to 1500+ templates

• Piktochart: Infographic maker with over 280 editable infographic templates

• Slidesgo: Free Google Slides & Powerpoint templates

• SlidesCarnival: More free Google Slides & Powerpoint templates

• Visme: 500+ infographics design templates

Graphics & Illustrations

• Pixeltrue: collection of 60+ animated background scenes from around the globe

• DLPNG: 3,255,570 Graphic Design Elements For Free Download

• Illlustrations: over 100 open source illustrations, completely free

• UnDraw: beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution