What is a little known designer resource that you believe every artist should know about?

Free vectors: Vecteezy and All Free Downloads Free stock images: Pixabay, Unsplash, nappy.co (free photos of people of color), Pexels, Morguefile Free fonts: Lost Type Fonts (type in $0 to get the fonts for free), Font Squirrel, Dafont Help identifying a font: Identifont Color palette inspiration: colourlovers.com.

#Design Tools #Photos & Graphics #Productivity 7 social mentions

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Dafont

#Fonts #Web Fonts #Free Fonts 173 social mentions

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Colormind.io

#Design Tools #Color Gradients #Color Tools 27 social mentions

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CodePen

#Text Editors #Code Collaboration #Programming 484 social mentions

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Shottr

Https://shottr.cc/ saw this on r/webdev a while back and it’s crazy how much I’ve used it. Let’s you change screenshot format to .tiff but more importantly let’s you easily copy, drag or save screenshots AND copy color hex codes to your clipboard simply by hovering over the color and pressing tab.

#Design Tools #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots 68 social mentions

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Get waves

#Design Tools #Vector Graphic Editor #Developer Tools 19 social mentions

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The Noun Project

#Web Icons #Icon Fonts #Vector Icons 139 social mentions

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AstuteGraphics

Definitely check out https://astutegraphics.com/ if you use illustrator a lot. There's a lot of really great time saving tools packaged into one plugin.

#Design Tools #Vector Graphic Editor #Web Icons 4 social mentions

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Coolors.co

No one has mentioned https://coolors.co/ yet. I find it better than Kuler.

#Design Tools #Color Gradients #Color Tools 535 social mentions

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Fonts In Use

Fonts in use Amazing for inspiration and ideas.

#Fonts Directory #Design Tools #Web Fonts 38 social mentions

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GitHub Student Developer Pack

Side note: if you’re a student or have a valid EDU email, you can get Canva Pro free for a year (and MANY other things) through GitHub’s Student Developer Pack here —> https://education.github.com/pack.

#Developer Tools #Tech #Education 194 social mentions

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Whimsical

Whimsical.com. Its great for quick wireframes, flowcharts of mindmaps if you don't have access to Illustrator or other software.

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 55 social mentions

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Tabbied

Tabbied.com, for quick and simple pattern generation that can be exported as PNG. I always vectorize them afterwards through Illustrator or Figma.

#Design Tools #Productivity #Art 1 social mentions

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Paaatterns

Paaatterns. Just very minimal vector patterns, free for download.

#Web App #Design Tools #Graphic Design Software 3 social mentions

Archetypeapp.com . To create font sizing hierarchies, complete with styling and spacing and figma export. Also great for font pair experiments.

#Fonts Directory #Design Tools #Web Fonts 1 social mentions

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Photomosh

#Photo & Video #iPhone #Video 54 social mentions